Sometimes I come to a familiar place in a city from an unfamiliar direction. When I do, the familiar surroundings of the familiar place sometimes look unfamiliar. And when I finally see the familiar place, I don't discover it so much as I recognize it: I don't experience happiness so much as I do joy. I like your reflection on the Magi's decision to go home another way after encounters with Herod and Jesus and the experience of their disorienting dream. I had never seen the verse in anything like this light: perhaps home indeed had changed for them.
On the Magi “going home another way”: Drawing on your last post "Liturgy for the Disappeared," perhaps the change reflects a release from state sacrality—Herod’s logic of order and control—toward a different kind of attention learned in Bethlehem. And what you say about "coming to a familiar place in a city from an unfamiliar direction" really resonates. Thanks!
That’s a great point! And in Luke, even when the holy family moves to Bethlehem in accordance with the Roman tax scheme, we readers are offered a different kind of attention through the witness of the angel, the heavenly host, the shepherds, Mary, and Elizabeth.
http://beezone.com/baptism-of-immortal-happiness
http://beezone.com/adida/bodily-location-of-happiness/lesson_of_life.html
http://www.adidam.org/content/teaching/print-files/sex-laughter-god-realization.pdf
A quote from a book for Children and everyone else too titled:
What,Where,When,How,Why, and WHO To Remember To Be Happy.
"Happiness is the now-and-forever Mystery that IS the Real Heart and the Only Real God of every one.
I am the Bright Teacher of Happiness - the Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj, the Divine Heart-Master of all and All"
Matter is of course a modification of Indivisible Conscious Light
http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds15.html
Intriguing, Jon! Thanks for passing this on. At least Ken Wilber is more interesting than Tony Robbins, etc.
Sometimes I come to a familiar place in a city from an unfamiliar direction. When I do, the familiar surroundings of the familiar place sometimes look unfamiliar. And when I finally see the familiar place, I don't discover it so much as I recognize it: I don't experience happiness so much as I do joy. I like your reflection on the Magi's decision to go home another way after encounters with Herod and Jesus and the experience of their disorienting dream. I had never seen the verse in anything like this light: perhaps home indeed had changed for them.
On the Magi “going home another way”: Drawing on your last post "Liturgy for the Disappeared," perhaps the change reflects a release from state sacrality—Herod’s logic of order and control—toward a different kind of attention learned in Bethlehem. And what you say about "coming to a familiar place in a city from an unfamiliar direction" really resonates. Thanks!
That’s a great point! And in Luke, even when the holy family moves to Bethlehem in accordance with the Roman tax scheme, we readers are offered a different kind of attention through the witness of the angel, the heavenly host, the shepherds, Mary, and Elizabeth.
! ! ! Yes.