One of the most significant challenges for religious folk reared in a wholly-Other God is what to do when Wisdom emerges as intimately Given within–a flash of Light or Feeling received in the body, known in the bones. Coming not from outside of yourself but intimately within your own cells. Knowing divinely. Most of us traditionalist folk are well socialized to immediately challenge and dissect any intimate revelation we might receive from within our bodies, so to become certain by means of Scripture, in the God we have known out there , about Whom it’s impossible to know for sure in the body . Christianity, for all its rootedness in incarnation , is one of the most body-dissociating traditions spewing fear about bodies today. Furthermore, beyond this root tradition, human idolatries of certainty preclude such intimate revelation in many traditions and none. Then we wonder why we are so lonely. Or we lash out to protect our tribal affiliations so we are not left out in the cold (a dee...
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