{"id":19870,"date":"2021-02-25T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19870"},"modified":"2021-02-25T10:18:26","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T15:18:26","slug":"moving-beyond-conventional-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19870","title":{"rendered":"Moving beyond Conventional Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XJp-uyv4Aq0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the three further \u201cways of knowing\u201d that can allow us to access greater wisdom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Images:<\/strong>&nbsp;Imaginal knowing is the only way that the unconscious can move into consciousness. It happens through fantasy, through dreams, through symbols, where all is \u201cthrown together\u201d (<em>sym-ballein<\/em>&nbsp;in Greek). It happens through pictures, events, and well-told stories. It happens through poetry, where well-chosen words create an image that, in turn, creates a new awareness\u2014that was in us already. We knew it, but we didn\u2019t know it. We must be open to imaginal knowing because the work of transformation will not be done logically, rationally, or cerebrally. Our intellectual knowing alone is simply not adequate to the greatness and the depth of the task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aesthetic:<\/strong>&nbsp;In some ways, aesthetic knowing is the most attractive, but I think it\u2019s often the least converting. Art in all its forms so engages us and satisfies us that many go no deeper. Still, aesthetic knowing is a central and profound way of knowing. I\u2019ve seen art lead to true changes of consciousness. I have seen people change their lives in response to a novel, a play, a piece of music, or a movie like&nbsp;<em>Dead Man Walking<\/em>. Their souls were prepared, and God got in through the right metaphor at the right time. They saw their own stories clarified inside of a larger story line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Epiphany:<\/strong>&nbsp;The last way of knowing, which I\u2019d think religion would prefer and encourage, is epiphanic knowing. An epiphany is a parting of the veil, a life-changing manifestation of meaning, the&nbsp;<em>eureka<\/em>&nbsp;of awareness of self and the Other. It is the radical grace which we cannot manufacture or orchestrate. There are no formulas which ensure its appearance. It is always a gift, unearned, unexpected, and larger than our present life. We cannot manufacture epiphanies. We can only ask for them, wait for them, expect them, know they are given, keep out of the way, and thank Someone afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have to imagine that Jesus\u2019 consciousness was developed by all these ways of knowing. Scholar Christopher Pramuk describes how Jesus engaged his listeners and followers in ways far beyond their minds. He writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>When Jesus of Nazareth prefaced his enigmatic sayings with the words, \u201clet those with eyes to see, see, let those with ears to hear, hear,\u201d scholars tell us he was speaking as a teacher of Jewish wisdom, appealing not just to the head but to the whole person of his listener: heart, body, mind, senses, imagination. Like a lure darting and flashing before a fish, Jesus\u2019s words dance and play before the imagination, breaking open our habitual assumptions about \u201cthe way things are.\u201d. . . To be \u201cborn again\u201d is to break free of the stultifying womb of conventional wisdom. . . . <\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-12-500x254.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-12-500x254.png 500w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-12-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-12-768x390.png 768w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-12.png 1906w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the three further \u201cways of knowing\u201d that can allow us to access greater wisdom: Images:&nbsp;Imaginal knowing is the only way that the unconscious can move into consciousness. It happens through fantasy, through dreams, through symbols, where all is \u201cthrown together\u201d (sym-ballein&nbsp;in Greek). It happens through pictures, events, and well-told stories. 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