@pauljpastor 1/ But how *special* is the solo mystics' claim whereby the apprehension of direct, unmediated encounter 'usurps' the comprehension of say, a corporate path, the Word of mid-week Bible study and an immersive, embodied experience of the emergent body of love of Real church family?
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Copy of thread here: 2/ Young once and naive, I assumed the confident refrain seemingly characterizing every anthology of mysticism I'd stumbled upon (namely, "Only mysticism for everybody can save the world") sagely anticipated the forthcoming advent of a mass awakening to mystical common sense. 3/ But it didn't add up. 'Mysticism’ was obscure, opaque and, to most folk, irrelevant or repellent. Soon, provoked by a Guide's averral that "our path will only ever be for the few", I broke with an 'esoteric unilateralism' quite at odds, I felt, with my democratic inclinations. 4/ Where was 'mysticism for the masses' to be found? I had no idea. But I powerfully intuited a Jesus walk would show the way. As I see it now, the quest for what was most Real carried me toward an incarnational territory of belonging effectively transcending oppositional ground. 5/ As an esotericist, I continued to train: as an exotericist, I continued…
@TornadoNate @VividVoid_ More than anything, comparisons serve to distract, perhaps. Hanging, among others, with contemplative psychedelic-therapists of late, I'm reminded we are often more alert to the relative, solipsistic merits of whatever path yanks our chain, than the common, corporate point of it.
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2/ “How you get there is where you arrive. Privatized salvation, our quest for personal sanity and safety, never accumulates into corporate change because it attracts and legitimates individualists to begin with. Think about that."