Yes and thank you. A perspective from affective world, the addictive process requires and particular emotional field individually and collectively. My work and as I understand your work is about moving from that emotional patterned world (maintaining self and collective beliefs) to one in which grief and trauma will find comfort. Now a shift a bit-this comfort is found in two main stories of the bible believing community. 1. After the coming to consciousness and eating the fruit and shame affect was activated there was comfort- after the death of the person Jesus the Comforter was promised and arrived on time-tongues of fire and meeting every one's needs. The first human expression of the relationship with the risen Jesus was leaving the value system of the empire and selling goods to meet basic needs.
also in any Christian-caring community this comfort of history is the beginning of that spiritual journey. No comforting of shame no deeply felt intimacy in community nor self inner twin kindly conversation. The comforting from those two stories is the entry step on that spiritual path. Which I will bring my past wounds to the discussion at the communion table not maintain them in some dissociated town on the margin -
I agree that there is a profound relationship between shame and comfort, our past wounds and what we can bring to the table today. Every experience can be seen from a negative or positive point of view. While it's not simple to do, when we are capable of making that flip, it becomes so much easier to forgive ourselves, forgive others and see each moment as a blessing, whether or not we seem to be in Heaven or any imagined utopia.
Our sworn enemy is only vile if that is all they are. What if they are also a living, breathing miracle just like we are? That thought might seem irrelevant when we have just been injured and yet, from another point of view, it might be the most important thing of all. The more I contemplate these things, the more I'm convinced that there is always just a LITTLE more humility available to all of us. If we consistently lean into that, what can shift is actually incredibly profound.
Yes and thank you. A perspective from affective world, the addictive process requires and particular emotional field individually and collectively. My work and as I understand your work is about moving from that emotional patterned world (maintaining self and collective beliefs) to one in which grief and trauma will find comfort. Now a shift a bit-this comfort is found in two main stories of the bible believing community. 1. After the coming to consciousness and eating the fruit and shame affect was activated there was comfort- after the death of the person Jesus the Comforter was promised and arrived on time-tongues of fire and meeting every one's needs. The first human expression of the relationship with the risen Jesus was leaving the value system of the empire and selling goods to meet basic needs.
also in any Christian-caring community this comfort of history is the beginning of that spiritual journey. No comforting of shame no deeply felt intimacy in community nor self inner twin kindly conversation. The comforting from those two stories is the entry step on that spiritual path. Which I will bring my past wounds to the discussion at the communion table not maintain them in some dissociated town on the margin -
Thanks for being here, Gregory.
I agree that there is a profound relationship between shame and comfort, our past wounds and what we can bring to the table today. Every experience can be seen from a negative or positive point of view. While it's not simple to do, when we are capable of making that flip, it becomes so much easier to forgive ourselves, forgive others and see each moment as a blessing, whether or not we seem to be in Heaven or any imagined utopia.
Our sworn enemy is only vile if that is all they are. What if they are also a living, breathing miracle just like we are? That thought might seem irrelevant when we have just been injured and yet, from another point of view, it might be the most important thing of all. The more I contemplate these things, the more I'm convinced that there is always just a LITTLE more humility available to all of us. If we consistently lean into that, what can shift is actually incredibly profound.