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Deb, in answer to the below:

At one of my weddings, the one at Holy Trinity in Georgetown, someone later told me I was visibly shaking my head as the priest--who'd changed the script--prayed over us with father-son-and holy ghost. "Not a Trinitarian?" was the presumption. Heavens. Where to begin?

I remember a Star Trek episode about people on some far-flung planet modeled on a stereotype of ancient Rome. Things were all O'Reillied up, of course, on the edge of destruction. And (lo!) a leader appears, someone hiding in the hills -- can't remember exactly, but that feels right. All comes around as he surprises and (the real miracle!) teaches Captain Kirk and crew new insights with his wise, wise ways. The gist came almost as a punchline: The man's followers had said they were sun worshipers, and Bones and Spock have their long say about that being (at least) some small step beyond heathen polytheists. And that punchline? It wasn't sun worship at all, but SON worship! So (OMG!) that means they were morally advanced! Even Kirk's jaw drops in amazement. Well, waddayaknow. Viewer wipes eyes and goes down to dinner, soul fortified.

"Morally advanced."

Our prejudice here by way of clipped letters, burned scrolls, burned people, by way of a real Roman imperialism fortified by a small, peculiar sect of late antique Christians who grafted certain mysteries of Dionysus (and friends) onto their (not so uncommon) savior cult. Let the son shine!

And now, the new apocalypse. Did you know the world is only 6,000 years old?

Yes. We've outgrown Christianity's literal Santa Claus level. Washing in the blood of its red, red suit has proved a most dangerous cult of instant, arrogant inflation.

Both CGJung and Joseph Campbell knew this, and worked hard to help find the workaround, a way to live with ill-fitting myths. It comes by way of understanding myth itself. These are psychological truths, spiritual truths, soul speak, rather than a reflection of the material, the literal. Son as "son" the offspring of a deity and a mortal becomes an understanding that to be human is the marriage of flesh and blood with consciousness, a consciousness part of, in cahoots with, an all pervading cosmos.

What beats my heart? It beats all hearts. No need to look any further. THAT is the rapture, the awakening, the fellowship that is heaven on earth. Roll up thy sleeves. :)

But now how strange that Carol's sun (in the letter below) is a very real physical threat. That the acceptance of global warming and the Fundamentalists have become politicized into enemies. Rome's imperialism ever at work, this time Rovian compassionate conservatism and corporate/mallchurch anti-science. All fed with (and in service of) the black blood of ages past: oil.

Mother, forgive us.

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from Carol:
Alice wrote: [In CREDO LIV Reality?]
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"Astrologically, the tension is between the outer trans-Saturnian planets, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, which means the impact is collective, global and of historic proportions. This hints that the real agenda might have to do with our collective consciousness."

I had a strange dream this past weekend, right before the news of the world financial crisis. The dream didn't seem related to my personal life: People were shouting that the sun was expanding. I looked up and saw it enlarging.

I headed for the dark side of our planet before Earth was encompassed even though I knew it was pointless.

I suppose the Self is behind most historical events and that is what the dream is saying. It is the destructive aspect of the Self or destruction brought on by the ego(s).

Carol

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alice:

That is an extraordinary dream!!!

From a Jungian perspective, the Self [yr Self] can never be destructive but the inflated ego, identified w/the Self can be! If this is a 'big' dream, ergo transpersonal, it is warning, it wld seem, of the collective consciousness of humanity [collective ego] becoming so inflated it might destroy itself! This is the lesson of the story of the angel Lucifer whose inflated pride caused his fall to earth and yet his name remains Light Bearer - aha! We seem to be becoming so technically gifted, the world over, we have failed to match it with the love and wisdom to use it to benefit our earth and all Life upon it. The so-called Greening of the environment and the hidden work of many unsung small grps around the world are the only hope we have.

It seems we forget the fact that we did not create ourselves n collectively we are in danger of forgetting this. All that is scientifically a fact is that we cannot destroy light/energy itself, we can only alter its use. This has allowed me personally not to worry about that since I am not in charge...

The fires of hell are the fires of God's love rejected! wrote Dorothy L. Sayers, who was both a detective story writer and a theologian member of the Inklings at Oxford [Tolkien, MacNeice, C S Lewis et al]

The danger comes when political leaders become spiritually inflated! Nebuchadnezzar, Hitler, Saddam, n other more contemporary examples come to mind. Consciousness, the gift of ego, needs the wisdom of humility as it functions through duality. It forgets the power of the Unconscious!! This is what Jung kept reminding us of. Wisdom really is realizing how much we don't know - that circleor mandala of the psyche can never be defined because pi never comes out! So forgeddaboud it! Have fun making more n more of it conscious but remember "The Tao that can be defined is not the Tao........" The closest, as far as I can see, that we can come is not through the brain but through the Heart, which all the mystics proclaim is "The Only Way" - Christian mystics, Sufi, Jewish,Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Native American n all whose works you can study have Love in common, one way or another. And if you can't read, consider Nature's beauty. Try to explain how or even why a seed in dark earth becomes a fragrant violet or why a fetus becomes a baby w/all the necessary attachments!! My own mother who never had cooked or made a cookie, marveled that I came w/eyelashes n tiny toenails, etc. "I never could have done it!" she used to shake her head in wonder. If you are a parent, I hope you had the same experience. Mind-blowing! Exactly.

Phew! Carol, that dream should be dreamt by us all. Bless you for sharing it with us!

love

ao (alice)