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grounded in a mystical, interfaith-Christianity inspired by Emanuel Swedenborg
Release Stilted Promises and Ideas
Christ’s words about never making oaths or promises can be a bit unsettling. We should never make a promise? What about promises already made? That’s why I think it’s no accident that he couches these statements between telling men of the time that they shouldn’t divorce their wives, and a missive on staying non-violent. He wasn’t trying to encourage us to “do whatever we want,” but instead, to let go of our calcified assumptions. To let go of the oaths and endorsements that only continue our blindness and suffering.
You are the Space that God Shines Through
The once-famous scientist turned mystic, Emanuel Swedenborg, wrote that during his explorations of the spiritual realm evil spirits could not attack and control him only because they found him to be nothing. Why is there such a trend with sages, this tendency to report on their “nothingness”? And how might it speak to us in this moment? Perhaps, inviting us to look past all the “somethings” we tend to identify with (in thought, body, and form), and returning our attention back to the very “empty” peaceful space that we are always looking from.