Thank you Rhyd, and congratulations on your marraige! What a grand place you shared, I didn't know (but could have figured it out I suppose) that the people who built that (peoples, I guess, long build time) were not doing it for Christianity; it has usurped so many (almost all?) of the symbols and traditions of previous peoples, and only the birds know what happened really. It feels so good to see the ruins with the right eyes. Best from OR
I watched lecture 7 and it put me into a mental riff on the body and the temple from my Christian and Pentecostalish experience, with me thinking/feeling through what those are for me. For me the Holy Spirit is visceral rising from the depths of my body. I experience my body as the temple of the Holy Spirit and in that temple meet God anywhere face to face and inside myself - both are simultaneous, though a withdrawal into a more private space can at times facilitate that meeting and at other times a group setting is facilitatory where a temporary group temple is constructed. I am an earthen vessel, a fragile body containing, covered and with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. 2 Corinthians 4:6-7. Thank you for being the spark that crystallized and clarified what I knew already.
Thank you Rhyd, and congratulations on your marraige! What a grand place you shared, I didn't know (but could have figured it out I suppose) that the people who built that (peoples, I guess, long build time) were not doing it for Christianity; it has usurped so many (almost all?) of the symbols and traditions of previous peoples, and only the birds know what happened really. It feels so good to see the ruins with the right eyes. Best from OR
I watched lecture 7 and it put me into a mental riff on the body and the temple from my Christian and Pentecostalish experience, with me thinking/feeling through what those are for me. For me the Holy Spirit is visceral rising from the depths of my body. I experience my body as the temple of the Holy Spirit and in that temple meet God anywhere face to face and inside myself - both are simultaneous, though a withdrawal into a more private space can at times facilitate that meeting and at other times a group setting is facilitatory where a temporary group temple is constructed. I am an earthen vessel, a fragile body containing, covered and with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. “For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all surpassing power is from God and not from us. 2 Corinthians 4:6-7. Thank you for being the spark that crystallized and clarified what I knew already.