"...a fundamental mystery that reductionistic materialism cannot solve". Anyone who has been present at the death of someone (or a pet) can attest to this.
I think that ultimately, none of us are neurotypical, we are all divergent from the perceived standard mean and as beings in dynamic fluctuation, the Gospel operates outside and within our conscious awareness. Psychotropic experiences can occur unprovoked or induced by deep personal traumas, certain foods and even environmental fractures. If in fact, we are essentially and primarily [Spiritual Beings] on Physical Journey, rather that the opposite direction, that then changes one’s perspective on the spiritually enchanted dimension that is woven into and coexists with and alongside the seemingly present physical reality we think we are experiencing. The photonic angelic realm is real, and the life that operates within it can traverse the boundary multi-directionally just as our prayers do. The beautiful thing though, is that, “Perfect Love Casts Out Fear” and whatever inhabits there be in either realm, multi-dimension or time dilation reference frame, will ALL be subject to it! The Perfect Self-Sacrificial Love that God [Is] in Christ, created that boundary initially to facilitate the redemptive process of both.
I struggle to believe in the idea of fairies - I keep thinking of Tinkerbell!!! But, maybe, they are just created supernatural beings in the same way angels are? A way of naming, describing, giving language to the supernatural realm is real and that many see and experience?
It has got me thinking about what has informed my spiritual world view…
My enchanted world view is informed by the Jesus story, the biblical stories, along with my childhood encounter with this. I can remember seeing 3 floating, evil beings, with malicious intent, that I later labelled as demons following my understanding & later exposure to the Jesus stories.
Weirdly, I also remember spiders appearing on the walls as a 5 year old and a HUGE one when I was about 26 years old when I had a spiritual reawakening.
But, I also had an experience of Jesus that led me to be in relationship with him from the age of 6. This was/is the rock in which I stand to explain all subsequent spiritual encounters.
But I also remember a children’s Bible I had. I remember staring for ages at a picture of Jesus battling with Satan at his temptation - I was drawn to that image, it shaped my perceptions and understandings of the world in a childlike way. I still see the world through that lens.
Reading the post reminded me of when, as a child, I read Books 1 -6 of CS Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. Narnia enchanted me, I longed for it. I longed for that adventure so much, it hurt.
Still to this day, as a woman in my 40s, I have finished the Chronicles of Narnia. I still have not read Book 7 - The Last Battle. This is because someone told me, you can read the books in any order, but once you read Book 7, it all comes to an end. I NEVER wanted Narnia, the adventure to end and the door to be closed off to me!
BUT interestingly, the faun, in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe gave me a funny feeling - I was a bit scared of the faun! He felt creepy, real to me - It has made me wonder, if it is because in my childhood openness, sensitivity and imagination, there is something that might actually be real about fauns! 😂 That js why I was unsure of Lucy’s friend the Faun! I remember thinking, is he good or is he bad? I wasn’t sure.
Maybe, there is more to the sprit realm, than just simply Demons and Angels and the Holy Spirit?
And, once, I had a friend from the Orkney Islands, UK - she said that many people there still believed in trolls! She said they literally mean it when they say watch out for them!
Maybe the stuff of fairy tales is truer than we realise? More sane to believe in then the insanity of our brainwashing, demonic, micromanaging, s rational thought - satan loves it when we are dull and ignorant to his schemes because then he can go undetected!
Yep, so blinded by the material world - I am so aware of the supernatural, but I still know I can get easily get hoodwinked by rational, western, materialistic and a consumer way of thinking just like everybody else. It deadens me - sometimes I feel so dead, locked in a demonic, torturous, worldly economic system that I am crying out to be free from.
"...a fundamental mystery that reductionistic materialism cannot solve". Anyone who has been present at the death of someone (or a pet) can attest to this.
I think that ultimately, none of us are neurotypical, we are all divergent from the perceived standard mean and as beings in dynamic fluctuation, the Gospel operates outside and within our conscious awareness. Psychotropic experiences can occur unprovoked or induced by deep personal traumas, certain foods and even environmental fractures. If in fact, we are essentially and primarily [Spiritual Beings] on Physical Journey, rather that the opposite direction, that then changes one’s perspective on the spiritually enchanted dimension that is woven into and coexists with and alongside the seemingly present physical reality we think we are experiencing. The photonic angelic realm is real, and the life that operates within it can traverse the boundary multi-directionally just as our prayers do. The beautiful thing though, is that, “Perfect Love Casts Out Fear” and whatever inhabits there be in either realm, multi-dimension or time dilation reference frame, will ALL be subject to it! The Perfect Self-Sacrificial Love that God [Is] in Christ, created that boundary initially to facilitate the redemptive process of both.
This so provoking.
I struggle to believe in the idea of fairies - I keep thinking of Tinkerbell!!! But, maybe, they are just created supernatural beings in the same way angels are? A way of naming, describing, giving language to the supernatural realm is real and that many see and experience?
It has got me thinking about what has informed my spiritual world view…
My enchanted world view is informed by the Jesus story, the biblical stories, along with my childhood encounter with this. I can remember seeing 3 floating, evil beings, with malicious intent, that I later labelled as demons following my understanding & later exposure to the Jesus stories.
Weirdly, I also remember spiders appearing on the walls as a 5 year old and a HUGE one when I was about 26 years old when I had a spiritual reawakening.
But, I also had an experience of Jesus that led me to be in relationship with him from the age of 6. This was/is the rock in which I stand to explain all subsequent spiritual encounters.
But I also remember a children’s Bible I had. I remember staring for ages at a picture of Jesus battling with Satan at his temptation - I was drawn to that image, it shaped my perceptions and understandings of the world in a childlike way. I still see the world through that lens.
Reading the post reminded me of when, as a child, I read Books 1 -6 of CS Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia. Narnia enchanted me, I longed for it. I longed for that adventure so much, it hurt.
Still to this day, as a woman in my 40s, I have finished the Chronicles of Narnia. I still have not read Book 7 - The Last Battle. This is because someone told me, you can read the books in any order, but once you read Book 7, it all comes to an end. I NEVER wanted Narnia, the adventure to end and the door to be closed off to me!
BUT interestingly, the faun, in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe gave me a funny feeling - I was a bit scared of the faun! He felt creepy, real to me - It has made me wonder, if it is because in my childhood openness, sensitivity and imagination, there is something that might actually be real about fauns! 😂 That js why I was unsure of Lucy’s friend the Faun! I remember thinking, is he good or is he bad? I wasn’t sure.
Maybe, there is more to the sprit realm, than just simply Demons and Angels and the Holy Spirit?
And, once, I had a friend from the Orkney Islands, UK - she said that many people there still believed in trolls! She said they literally mean it when they say watch out for them!
Maybe the stuff of fairy tales is truer than we realise? More sane to believe in then the insanity of our brainwashing, demonic, micromanaging, s rational thought - satan loves it when we are dull and ignorant to his schemes because then he can go undetected!
Yep, so blinded by the material world - I am so aware of the supernatural, but I still know I can get easily get hoodwinked by rational, western, materialistic and a consumer way of thinking just like everybody else. It deadens me - sometimes I feel so dead, locked in a demonic, torturous, worldly economic system that I am crying out to be free from.
Interesting stuff this!
Thought you might enjoy this Jacquie Lawson e card.
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This series, I think, and this post in particular, has just marked a turning point in my spiritual life. Thank you.
Richard
Will you be posting some of your more academic research (bibliographies, internet connections and such) on Celtic Christianity for those interested?
Steve R.