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- epsilon on 8 March 2010
Hello Roger – have just re-read this post – it is so profound! Are you still... - roger on 5 March 2010
Philip, thank you for this unexpected kind encouragement again and prayers! After finding your... - philip johnson on 3 March 2010
your faith is strong .you are in my prayers.god bless you and god bless the pope.... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you Benjamin for this beautiful quote and for your warm words. They help, for much the... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you so much Philip. This kind, warm encouragement means a lot to us. For this internet... - roger on 28 February 2010
Yes Edwin. Catholicism is a living, growing tradition. I cannot help but feel that part of... - Benjamin on 25 February 2010
Revisited your blog; I am thankful for your journey and witness to me. I will revisit... - philip johnson on 24 February 2010
great writing.you are true followers of the one true faith. god bless .philip. - Edwin Shendelman on 24 February 2010
“For I really have come to believe that a de-sacramentalised,... - roger on 23 February 2010
Yes Edwin. There is a favourite quote of mine that makes old friends of mine yawn by now.... - Edwin Shendelman on 23 February 2010
I guess what I am trying to get at here is the need to hold two different ideas... - roger on 22 February 2010
Thank you for this Edwin. My original post invoked the word STRUGGLE quite consciously I...
- epsilon on 8 March 2010
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Tag Archives: New Age
Who I am – Some Notes (Part I)
xThere are many blogs where the blogger reveals a great deal of his or her personal life and day-to-day affairs. And such, I am sure is appropriate and meaningful for many forums.
I have wanted to do something a bit different here: to try to address more universal themes, and use the personal mainly for illustrative purposes.
But for [...]
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An Interlude on Evil, the New Age and Dialogue …
I have been intending to and will be returning to my very personal and unfinished ponderings on Global Warming, Law, Valentin Tomberg and what the Holy Father has recently been saying which relates to all of that …
But first, an interlude.
I have been very moved and stirred by the dialogue going on at my wife Kim´s [...]
Denial of the Fall II
And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death. For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods … (Genesis 3 iv- v, Douay Rheims translation of the Vulgate).
I am grateful for all the rich comments [...]
Denial of the Fall
Living with family at the moment in this Spanish town, filled with New Age oriented folk, means that I am being repeatedly confronted with New Age ideologies. In this world I am experiencing, is a powerful sense of idealising the positive and undermining the negative.
Recently, I heard two people talking, about some very painful issues [...]
The Antithesis of Christianity
Providence it seems to me, leads me again and again to confront the New Age movement. I cannot seem to escape it and it seems to me there is meaning in all of this.
As has been indicated, this weblog has been born in Spain, in something of a New Age “colony” where personal, family and again, [...]
On the Hidden Unity of “Aquarius” …
As mentioned, I am preparing a book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum for self-publication. A provisional subtitle for this volume is: From Materialism and the New Age to the Catholic Mystery.
And the book attempts to be a certain meditation on three worlds of my experience: the arid, secular, materialist and hyper-capitalist culture that increasingly threatens to scorch [...]
New Age Counsel: “Find your Inner Church”
Not so long ago, my wife Kim and I took part in a conversation, which seemed to me at least, distinctively revealing of the New Age ethos. It was a conversation with a friend, who even if she probably does not consider herself “New Age”, nonetheless seems to me as though she has steeped herself [...]
No Concepts, Please!
Some years ago, I met a young woman, who compelled respect. I stress that – she struck me as someone with rare capacities for psychological acuity and sensitivity.
She had recently returned from the Findhorn community in the north of Scotland – which many regard as the world’s leading or most influential New Age community. [...]
Welcome Home? From the New Age to Catholicism – Part Two
As Roger has mentioned in his weblog, we have been staying with family in southern Spain. Although there is a strong Catholic community here amongst the native Spanish people, the ex-patriate Brits, of whom there are many, tend to be drawn to the New Age. Our family is involved in this New Age way.
So Roger and I [...]
Book Review: The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
Heartbreaking, beautiful Catholic Masterpiece
New Age Values
For those following this project, I want to note that after this entry, this weblog may be quiet for a week or more. IF this weblog does go quiet, however, it will partly be for me to pray and ponder – on such questions, for example, as to what to include in an upcoming links section for [...]
The “Benevolent” Burial of Christianity
This weblog received a very interesting comment to the last entry, from my “known friend”, John.
My friend’s response, I thought, raised a number of important issues and questions – both explicitly and implicitly. I have wondered if John is implicitly asking something, when he observes that New Age spirituality and a “rigorous” Catholicism are not [...]
Mourning … and Snivelling
Mourning and Snivelling … What a profound difference between the two!
It is here that I have often found New Age spirituality profoundly confused as to the nature of Christianity and Christian mourning.
For so often, in the New Age sphere have I seen those who looked at Christian mourning and saw apparently little but moroseness and morbidity.
In the [...]
An All-Too-Familiar Litany?
Piecemeal … as I indicated last time, I hope to lay out in pieces over the next weeks what this weblog aspires to …
The World … we can start with the World and indeed the woes of this world, as we enter the twenty first century …
Yes, dear Reader (and such is how I would [...]
A Very Personal and Haphazard Beginning …
Some day, maybe the story can be told. The whole crazy story … or apparently crazy. For now, suffice it to say that this web project is being started in personally very difficult circumstances. Circumstances where my wife Kim and I hardly have a real home, let alone a home with decent web access.
Nonetheless with [...]
In Broad Strokes: A Brief Catholic Response to Eckhart Tolle
Specifically concerning Eckhart Tolle, more generally about New Age spirituality and its grave misunderstanding of Christianity.
Every Secret Misery and Silent Agony