[Oe List ...] Interesting article -- especially for Social Process collection -- common religion triangle and Inner life/other world and all

[Seth Longacre]

Well, one example — the Eucharist is the ritualized remembering of the encounter with (Jesus or Christ, depending I think). Most people I know who feel they’ve had a direct Christ experience have not and do jot have that experience during the Eucharist. It’s like the difference between your experience of your vacation and later in sharing your photos.

Seth Longacre
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> On Dec 15, 2018, at 11:39, James Wiegel <jfwiegel at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Seth, you said . . . "but people are getting there because they have actually, directly, experienced Mystery, the divine, G-O-D, there — in their lives here, today, on earth, immanently. They may or may not feel some need to ritually remember that experience. I think many prefer the raw experience to the ritualized remembering of it. But he seems to be oblivious to all this."
> 
> Could you say some more, especially about raw experience / ritualized remembering?  Thanks
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> When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt.  "But that is not what great ships are built for."   Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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>> On Dec 14, 2018, at 15:30, Seth Longacre <sethlongacre at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> but people are getting there because they have actually, directly, experienced Mystery, the divine, G-O-D, there — in their lives here, today, on earth, immanently. They may or may not feel some need to ritually remember that experience. I think many prefer the raw experience to the ritualized remembering of it. But he seems to be oblivious to all this.
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