{"id":20754,"date":"2021-11-23T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=20754"},"modified":"2021-11-23T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:53:07","slug":"a-great-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=20754","title":{"rendered":"A Great Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AAIHWfYNkMg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Father Richard\ncontinues to explore how archetypes connect us to the story of God and the\nuniverse. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The small self is intrinsically unhappy because it fundamentally\nlacks reality. To use a philosophical word, its nonbeing means it does not\nexist \u201contologically.\u201d It will thus always be insecure, afraid, and scrambling\nfor significance<em>. <\/em>With no storyline, no integrating images that define who\nwe are or direct our lives, we just won\u2019t be happy. Carl Jung developed this\nidea for our generation of Western rationalists, who had thought that myth\nmeant \u201cnot true\u201d\u2014when in fact the older meaning of myth is precisely \u201calways\nand deeply true\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jung goes so far as to say that transformation only\nhappens in the presence of story, myth, and image. A great story pulls us\ninside of a universal story; it lodges in the unconscious where it is\ninaccessible to the brutalities of our own mind or will, [1] as Thomas Merton\nobserved. From that hidden place we are healed. For Christians, Jesus\u2019 life is\nthe archetypal map of Everyman and Everywoman: divine conception, ordinary\nlife, betrayal, abandonment, rejection, crucifixion, resurrection, and\nascension. It all comes full circle, as we return to where we started, though\nnow transformed. Jung saw this basic pattern repeated in every human life. He\ncalled it the Christ Archetype, \u201can almost perfect map\u201d of the whole journey of\nhuman transformation. Jung\u2019s notion of an Archetype or Ruling Image can help us\nunderstand the \u201cUniversal Stand-In\u201d that Jesus is and was meant to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Great Story Line connects our little lives to the One\nGreat Life, and even better, it forgives and uses the wounded and seemingly\n\u201cunworthy\u201d parts (1 Corinthians 12:22), which Jung would call the necessary\n\u201cintegration of the negative.\u201d What a message! Like good art, a Cosmic Myth\nlike the Gospel gives a sense of universal belonging and personal participation\nin Something\/Someone much larger than ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are finding it is nearly impossible to heal isolated\nindividuals inside of a culture as unhealthy and unhealed as the USA, and\ninside any version of Christianity that supports exclusion and superiority.\nIndividuals who remain inside of an incoherent and unsafe universe soon fall\nback into anger, fear, and narcissism. I sadly say this after 46 years of\ngiving retreats, conferences, and initiation rites all over the world. Only\npeople who went on to develop a contemplative mind could finally grow and\nbenefit from the message that they heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In the most recent issue of <\/em>Oneing, <em>Father Richard honors those who\nmake the full journey of integration. These are people who find their own\nsmaller stories within God\u2019s great story, what Richard calls \u201cThe Story\u201d:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who truly live in The Story have embraced and integrated their personality, shadow, woundedness, family issues, culture, and contextualizing life experiences under The One. . . . This is a truly integral spirituality, a truly catholic worldview, and the unrecognized goal of all monotheistic religions. These, like Jesus, desire \u201cnowhere to rest their head\u201d except in the One and Universal Love. [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Young&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AS YOU SIT QUIETLY IN MY PRESENCE, let Me fill your heart and mind with thankfulness. This is the most direct way to achieve a thankful stance. If your mind needs a focal point, gaze at My Love poured out for you on the cross. Remember that nothing in heaven or on earth can separate you from that Love. This remembrance builds a foundation of gratitude in you, a foundation that circumstances cannot shake. As you go through this day, look for tiny treasures strategically placed along the way. I lovingly go before you and plant little pleasures to brighten your day. Look carefully for them, and pluck them one by one. When you reach the end of the day, you will have gathered a lovely bouquet. Offer it up to Me with a grateful heart. Receive My Peace as you lie down to sleep, with thankful thoughts playing a lullaby in your mind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ROMANS 8:38\u201339; For I am convinced that neither death nor\nlife, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any\npowers, \u00b3\u2079neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be\nable to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our LORD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;1 CORINTHIANS\n3:11; 11For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid,\nwhich is Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PSALM 4:7\u20138; Fill my heart with joy when their grain and\nnew wine abound. \u2078In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make\nme dwell in safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Richard continues to explore how archetypes connect us to the story of God and the universe. The small self is intrinsically unhappy because it fundamentally lacks reality. To use a philosophical word, its nonbeing means it does not exist \u201contologically.\u201d It will thus always be insecure, afraid, and scrambling for significance. 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