When I look at the world in this way, then I see that Jesus was teaching us an attitude and a methodology for ascertaining how the universe works and going with the positive flow, the forces for health and wholeness, that we find there. There is much about giving up control, letting go, finding the courage to change what we can, along with the serenity to accept the many things we cannot change, taking the risk of loving unconditionally, finding the gift in what comes to us, and in this way, opening ourselves to the synchronicity that Jung posited as an alternative to causality. If we wish to think in traditional terms, then I think of the immanent God, God within, as Jung and the mystics do, and the transcendent God as the essence of spiritual community, of the collective unconscious, of the sense that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts when we draw together in the cause of unconditional love. I am comfortable using these terms because they bind me to the community in which I find love and support. In choosing the former over the latter, I affirm the power of poetry over logic and the power of community over individualism.
Poetry conveys meaning beyond our literal reach.
We, in the very largest sense, have taken a universe as we found it, and, all of our blunders and mistakes notwithstanding, have created patterns of meaning that permit us to live abundantly, have discovered in our separated cultures common meanings and archetypes, and have even created gods and goddesses to explain it and to keep away the fearful dark. If only we can keep from destroying it. And I need to recognize that proud and tall though we stand in our human empowerment, mystery requires humility. Click here to return to Grey's Musings menu. Click here to return to the Food for New Thought menu.