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Having meditated on evil for two weeks, we are now invoking gifts that the mystics give us to combat evil. Yesterday we considered the primal
For two weeks or so—interrupted by several meditations on generosity—we have been meditating on Evil. That is an important meditation for Evil is possible wherever
Looking back on Hitler’s project—which as we have been noting was very much wrapped in religious language and pseudo religious rituals disguised as rallies. In
Hitler invoked religious rituals on a grand scale along with religious propaganda in his impassioned preaching at his rallies. Indeed, he was Germany’s favorite preacher.
Hitler’s work was pseudo-religious—there lay its power. Rituals of purgation, purging, cleansing, uniting, chanting, processing, bowing, adulating, invoking cosmic powers of hatred and battling—all of
We are meditating on Evil and how it succeeds so often: how it is that Hitler prevailed in his malevolent dreams so successfully. What forces
In yesterday’s daily meditation I stressed that we ought not to project all evil on to someone else—not even Hitler. We need to look deeper
We have been meditating on Evil recently in our Daily Meditations but also on our human capacity for generosity. We have seen that the word
We are meditating on Adultism, the unconscious projection of resentment onto the young. Jesus has plenty to say about the young. “If anyone gives so
Psychologist Alice Miller, who has done important work on the wounded child, asks why Jesus turned out so well—why he fulfilled his destiny so totally.
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