{"id":18815,"date":"2020-04-30T09:24:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18815"},"modified":"2020-04-30T09:24:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T13:24:57","slug":"reconnecting-the-unconscious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=18815","title":{"rendered":"Reconnecting the Unconscious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Liminal Space<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reconnecting\nwith the Unconscious<\/strong><br>\nThursday, \u202fApril 30, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NrTv39-lG4M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>My\nfriend John Philip Newell is a poet and scholar who believes in the\ntransformative power of Celtic Christian spirituality to support us in our era.\nThe ancient Celts made great use of liminal times and places to integrate the\n\u201cpaired opposites\u201d of which the world seems to be made. Newell writes: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do\nwe know that within each one of us is the unspeakably beautiful beat of the\nSacred? Do we know that we can honor that Sacredness in one another and in\neverything that has being? And do we know that this combination\u2014growing in\nawareness that we are bearers of Presence, along with a faithful commitment to\nhonor that Presence in one another and in the earth\u2014holds the key to\ntransformation in our world? . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eco-theologian\nThomas Berry says the universe is so amazing in its interrelatedness that it\nmust have been dreamt into being. He also says our situation today as an earth\ncommunity is so desperate\u2014we are so far from knowing how to save ourselves from\nthe ecological degradations we are a part of\u2014that we must dream the way\nforward. We must summon, from the unconscious, ways of seeing that we know\nnothing of yet, visions that emerge from deeper within us than our conscious\nrational minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly,\nthe rebirthing of our true depths will involve a reconnection with the\nunconscious. It will demand a fresh releasing within us of the world of dreams,\nmyths, and the imagination. Whether as individuals or collectively as nations\nand religious traditions, new beginnings will be born among us when we open to\nthe well of what we do not yet know or what we have forgotten deep within. . .\n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Into this\nliminal realm, between the known and the unknown, we are invited to enter if we\nare to learn more of the way forward in our lives as individuals and as\ncommunities and nations. This is why, in so much Celtic storytelling and\nlegends, lovers meet and worlds conjoin in the twilight. It is the coming\ntogether of masculine and the feminine. It is the convergence of the unseen\nworld of those who have gone before us and this present dimension of space and\ntime in which the seen and the physical dominate. It may be a time of\nencountering messengers from the invisible realms of the universe that are\nlinked inextricably to our realm, but at the same time transcend us in our\nstruggle with unknown forces of darkness within and without. This is also why,\nin so much Eastern spiritual practice [as well as many in monastic communities\nin the Christian tradition], the early hours of dawn are viewed as the time of\nmeditation, when night and day are commingling in ways that more readily allow\nus to move from the known to the unknown and from the nameable to the\nineffable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liminal Space Reconnecting with the Unconscious Thursday, \u202fApril 30, 2020 My friend John Philip Newell is a poet and scholar who believes in the transformative power of Celtic Christian spirituality to support us in our era. 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