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March 22, 2009. The Dark night of Addiction. Let’s Start With A Return to Being. http://cdn4.libsyn.com/meditationoasis/pod5.MP3?nvb=20090322163406&nva=20090323164406&t=0b3794a5b8c1a5cc5ef27. Everybody Hurts... REM.
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March 22, 2009 The Dark night of Addiction
Let’s Start With A Return to Being • http://cdn4.libsyn.com/meditationoasis/pod5.MP3?nvb=20090322163406&nva=20090323164406&t=0b3794a5b8c1a5cc5ef27
Everybody Hurts... REM http://video.google.ca/videosearch?hl=en&q=Everybody%20hurts&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
Dark Night of Addiction • Travel from spirit into matter into body, into ego, into individuality... • All the while building alienation from our source of being and depending on the bumps in the road delivered by self/other/world, this alienation comes in degree’s. • Ultimately, increasing our yearning for home!
What do we do with our Spiritual Search? • Religion Unfortunate and Misinformed Grace... ? • Preaching about a god removed from us. • Sin and sinners • Exclusively Male • Punisher • Afterlife if... • We cannot relate to god on our own
However... • And yet, Grof acknowledges a little know truth that “at the foundation of every major religion are true mystical experiences., states of enlightenment in which full power of divine love, acceptance, unity, and expansiveness is revealed to the spiritual personage”.
Archetypes of Wholeness Gone Awry • Advertisements • Movies • Images • External World Trying To Reflect inner Divine 15:16
A Final Tune – Capturing The Dark Night and Days • Hurt... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go
Video: Healing and Shamanism • Inquiry and Question to Ponder • Initial Feelings? • What message did you receive? • Similarities to course content and themes thus far / links connections / associations?