A Religious Experience
I have been thinking about what a "religious experience" means to me for some time now. When I first started this class I have to admit that I thought that I could only have a religious experience if I followed my religion (Catholicism). My views have now changed. I am not really sure if I now what a religous experience is but what I do know is that it contains a sacrifice of the ego, and an understanding of imperminence. A person does don't have to have a specific religion in oder to have a "religious In "Lame Deer-Seeker of Visions" the grandmother had most definetly had a religious experience because she willingly underwent the two elements that I feel are essentual to having a religous experience. She cut forty pieces of her arm and gave it to her grandson for strenght. Giving pieces of your skin have to be among the greatest sacrifices that anyone can make. She understude that she was part of a greater whole, and that she wasn't the most singficant part of this whole. She also understode that the our psysical fitures don't live forever and that giving them I think of a religious experience as
When Etty meet S she wanted to own him eventhough she didn't love him. The Middle path living without the extremes of either hedonism or ascetism. It is something that we can't cause or prevent it will happen when we are ready. And the descent means the reversal of all the ideals and values that were cherished in the morning. But what I will say is this I have come to the end of this course, and the end of my final paper and I have at this very moment decided that life is a religious experience whether you have a religion or you believe in the "absolute" . This is deffinetly not a good way to fell if you are going to have a religious experience I have to take a deeper look at who I am and stop hidding from myself. Jung, in The portable Jung Joseth Campbell, ed. a journey that people go through. If we disattach our selves from everything we can reach our full potential. We must be willing to give up the "I", The one thing that we identify our selves with.
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