The Sacred Dead Can Help in More Ways Than One (Always)

You just have to let them.

(Read more ...) 

I hope nobody I care about bought the baloney* I've been putting in here lately. I'm not "chosen" (that I know of), I haven't been communing with the dead (that I'm aware of) and books haven't been talking to me (though I thought I explained that one).

It's been a few tough weeks for me, for a number of reasons. Part of the need I've had to blow off steam has been used in writing baloney in this particular post.

Some of what I've written may have been true, some of it possibly exaggerated, and some of it was certainly nonsense.

I wasn't having fun pulling anyone's leg, though. It was more my unconscious mind having fun pulling mine -- and if you feel it was done at your expense, please accept my apologies.

I really do feel the collective unconscious (a term "owned" by a Swiss psychiarist [or psychoanalyst, if you prefer] but conceptually known and written about for centuries prior to his time) holds resonance from many things -- people we've known and who will have known us when we're gone, events that have happened and that have not (yet, anyway) as well as the possibilities of people, places and things that will never find their way into The Real World (not the reality show, but the show of reality).

I guess my belief officially means I'm crazy. OK, if that's the case, I'll say "amen." But there are lots of crazy things I don't buy into -- reincarnation/past lives, Ouiji boards, palmistry, and all sorts of other stuff I think is nothing.

Lots of things get tossed into that vague category called "spirituality" that are pure bunk. Mainly, "spirituality" itself often is a term theologians use to describe religious experience they can't define (or even have in some cases, apparently).

But, on the other hand, the bunkum of "spirituality" doesn't mean that theology is the only valid religious science.

There's more to what people who are genuinely religious (without being sanctimonious -- no truly religious person I know is like that) genuinely feel than is commonly known, and which theology just doesn't describe.

I guess if there's been a point to all these "... (Always)" posts, that's been it.

And I still feel The Sacred Dead Can Help In More Ways Than One -- because they just did.

Whew! That took awhile!

___

*The first post I wrote in this position on the old LJ blog dealt (tongue in cheek) with some of my emotional experiences (that I thought of as "spiritual" when I had them), and the second, tongue still there, dealt with some of the books I read that gave them to me (they really "spoke" to me -- get it?). I overwrote the first with the second and then the second with this one.

LJ orig.: Feb. 25, 2009