Monday, April 15, 2024

MENTAL TRAUMA...A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING

Fr Richard's Daily Meditation today is about the gift of art and how it grows us. I had a traumatic experience yesterday, that was more mental than physical. I am amazed...delighted!...that Fr Richard's experiences with good art are transmuting as my trauma's spiritual gifts to me. 

Using today's article, the following bolded words are my very primitive coordinating insights:

"Sometimes, when we can’t take our eyes off a picture or work of art [or a trauma is visited upon us], an epiphany is happening. We don’t yet know what we’re knowing while the wisdom of the unconscious is being ferried across to the conscious mind. This I have been experiencing...insights into my very scary experience from a spiritual perspective.

"Art [mental trauma, as in necessary suffering] invites audiences to consider the spirituality and transformative power of images.

"Engaging with art [mental trauma, inviting a higher meaning] means we have to slow down to allow a new experience to enter which perhaps cannot be accessed in another way. So far, this is true and feels like the diamond in the rough.

"I believe good art, good poetry, and true mythology [mental trauma, necessary suffering...Fr Richard's cosmic story] communicates, without our knowing it, that life is not just a series of insulated, unrelated events. The great truths—when they can be visualized in images—reveal deep patterns, and reveal that we are a part of them. That deeply heals us, and it largely happens beneath our conscious awareness.

"We don’t close our eyes to the world’s pain, but on a deep, unconscious level, a cosmic story offers us healing and coherence. I began receiving a higher understanding of my trauma as soon as I arrived home and was alone...I knew that this, too, was of God and thus for my benefit...and, equally important, for the benefit of my friend who was a part of the experience."

Here's the natural mind's hard part in spiritual awakenings...waiting for the proof of purchase, so to speak. I know within me, this entire experience will prove to be of God...my egoic mind is saying, "When?"

I love it. 

Thank you.

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