Whee! We, Wee All the Way Home: A Guide to Sensual Prophetic Spirituality

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1980 - 264 pagini
This practical book leads us into a spirituality of passion that leads to compassion--coming to our senses in every meaning of the phrase.

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Natural Ecstasies how we all get high all the time on nature friendship sex the arts sports thinking travel and involuntary deprivations
45
Tactical Ecstasies some strategies old and new for bringing about ecstatic experiences including chants rosaries and litanies included fasting abstinenc...
55
How the practices of natural and tactical ecstasies differ and the difference this makes
63
How we can all agree that our experience of ecstasy is our experience of God
73
Becoming Like God WE
79
How God is like an elephant learning to remember and not forget our ecstasies
81
God as Pleasureseeker the forgotten pleasure of believing creation and the Creator are pleasures
89
Thinking Symbolically how spiritual voyagers reject literal thinking for symbolic playing and how our symbolic thinking is our Godconsciousness
97
Some species of small but Insidious unfriendly dragons such as bloated egos exaggerated hes and shes and moralizing that lurk to devour us along o...
133
Some additional species of small but insidious unfriendly dragons such as sheltering vicarious living and shortcutting
143
Large and unfriendly dragons institutions and institutional consciousness
153
Additional insights on tactics that unfriendly dragons utilize such as how large dragons employ small dragons in their service
163
Some dragonbite kits and an observation on discerning friendly from unfriendly dragons
171
Toward a Theology of a Sensual Spirituality
179
The sensual spirituality of the Hebraic prophets including Jesus
181
Asensual vs sensual spirituality during the Piscean Age of Christian history
201

Acting Symbolically God and ourselves as extremists how spiritual voyagers stretch their souls to be Godlike and in the process appear to be extremists
109
God as a panentheistic God and ourselves in that image
119
God as artist not master how God shares the creating so that we are not creatures under God but fellow creators with God
123
Obstacles Small and Large Dragons to Experiencing Ecstasy and the God of Ecstasy WEE
131
Prophetic reIncarnation spirituality a JewishChristian spirituality for a postPiscean Age
225
WHEE We wee all the way home a summing up and a sending off
239
REFERENCES
244
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Pagina 9 - Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. • I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. • I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Pagina 24 - This we know: The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
Pagina 23 - Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes ; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Pagina 22 - And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.
Pagina 40 - Those learned men who are a terror to children and an ignominious sight in lovers' eyes, all those butts of a traditional humour where there is something of the wisdom of peasants, are mathematicians, theologians, lawyers, men of science of various kinds. They have followed some abstract reverie, which stirs the brain only and needs that only, and have therefore stood before the looking-glass...

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Matthew Fox was a member of the Dominican Order in good standing for 34 years until he was expelled by former Pope Joseph Ratzinger, who was a cardinal and chief inquisitor at the time. Matthew Fox is the founder of Wisdom University (formerly the University of Creation Spirituality) and the foremost proponent of Creation Spirituality, based on the mystical teachings of early Christian visionaries such as Hildegard von Bingen, Meister Eckhart, and Saint Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of 26 books, including Original Blessing and The Coming of the Cosmic Christ. In 2019, Matthew Fox was cited as one of the "100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in the World" according to Watkins Mind Body Spirit magazine.

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