Examen questions + answers

  1. What is the background + implications of : The Christian of the future will be a mystic?

2.2 What is mystic ?

  1. Why and how our culture make us think other wise that : "God lives in me".
  1. Why praying is recognizing and challenging our desire.
  1. What is the psychological "dying" before we die ?
  1. Explain why "Self-knowledge and humility are the twin pillars of spiritual growth".
  1. Why is conversion not always continuing ? Is conversion really a word in search of an experience ?

So we have a CRITICAL MIND.
Unless if you have a step outside of the culture, the culture will swallow you all.

we are an empire know, how can we be liberate by building bricks). The common team, first you have to with-draw to attach, you have to empty out to reincarnate. ” What the mystic know by Rohr. There is a sign about church that not all is about money, sex and ect. It is important to stay in silence momentarily to turn off from external, ego consciousness, shadow-less. Find a middle, do not become an hermit. Other wise, behing a hermit to fast, will give you a lack of knowledge about social life. (p.35-36).

You have to know the difference between ourself and your environnement to really grasp your authentique self.

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SELF-INTROSPECTION
difficult process.
need humility

Se REMETTRE EN QUESTION

In the text, she say that we are all looking for a “I”. Somehow, when we are doing the sine relief, it is a sinful to broken (2:09) ?

OBSERVE our DESIR

They are many desire, it is not just link to sexuality. And it need to be detach to the culture. It is was we need to detach to not become a lap dog.

How does the desire is presented to us : We need to explain with the mystic.

The tact of our spiritual develop self we need to ascétisme our self. Be-friend them and integrate.

FEELING GOD = PROCESS
They have to undergo a painful way to listen better to God. It takes time and its ok. The ego want to take control of the process but it need to calm down and know its limits. It’s going step by step.

“Our hearts are release when our heart rest in you God” : augustin ?

We can not replace this desir with something else. Its not because our desire for God is important, that our other desire are not important. Desire of money can be important. Other stuffs matter. God can not replace friendship. What desire in us did we repress ? I am lonely ? We need to understand that or else we can do violence to our self. For exemple, having a simple life make me envious : un unhappy sub… lif.

The desire of sex by the Father or Sister it is transform by a desire of creativity.

While the mystical element was present in Christianity from the start, it is with the Alexandrian teacher that a formal biblically based mystical theory first emerges.

Bernard McGinn: The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism explores how human life is transformed through the search for direct contact with God.

the relations between Christ and each loving soul (at the opposite of the love relationship between Christ and the Church)

Il y 4 sections à son livre The first section
(1) describes his overall characterization of the Song as a dramatic account of the process of salvation.
(2) how his dual understanding of human nature (inner and outer person) allowed him to translate the sensual language of the Song into a message about the spiritual senses, the powers of inner perception lost in sin but gradually restored to the soul through the action of grace.
(3) there is no essential difference between the language of passionate desire and the biblical word for God’s generous love poured out upon us.
(4) how the three books ascribed to Solomon (a type of Christ) form the basis for a biblical paideia, or total education, by which we are brought back to God.

Any connection to God it is mystical.

Book : THe mystic counsciouness - Megan (male author)

The mystic is a second part of the religion. We shouldn’t get attach to them. Its not a sign of holyness. They are intermittent and only to a few of us.
The mysticism need to be understand in the Catholic church.

2.3. What is a mystic person ?

Théorie de ???

  1. Engage in the society. Exemple : St-Therese of…
  1. Usually well adjusted.
  1. Gender indifference : no different between man or female in the mystic. We are knights for God = female, I see myself as a bride or give birth
  1. Cataphatic stage : God is like my dad or the blessing of a mother. Like familiarity.
  1. Apophatic stage : it is a recognition that God is know in mystery. We get contradiction. Higher level of consciousness : Knowing that you don’t know.
  1. Hyperphagic : because God is nothing like something else. God is like a father, but he is not a human father. The nothingness - The silence is habited, not empty.
  1. Constant change : we can struggle with is. We can take detour, repress the insight. The pain that is link with it, but the Mystic they desire to continue to grow and that what make them mytism. Because them knew who they are.
  1. Knowledge and self development is what it all important.
  1. Divin dereliction = the dark night of the spiritual path = the absent of God. (the Mother Theresa, in her journal, I don’t feel God, I don’t believe. Become a person of Faith.

The mystic understand the meaning of relationship, power, interdependence, suffering, weakness, personal identity and influence. The understand the hole.

  1. Over come the temptation.

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  1. Spirituality VS religion dichotomy : What metaphor or story to describe their ideal, mutual interdependence?

Sens of love : not below of others

Who is right and wrong

we go into multiple conversion
Don't go fatter : scary + need for control
start of something
difficult to talk aboutt it in our personal life.
Need words to name our conversion.
not a formation
Conversion : Step (pas d'évolution graduelle) : Prise de conscience : C'est une Reception divine : Transformer : Identify,
C'est quelque chose qu'on reçoit,