thank you Lissa, joined yearly subscription. this is a brilliant essay! I appreciate your candor and willingness to share your process. Much of what you shared resonates with my healing journey, story as well.
FYI Your rigorous and passionate research has surely grown you!!! and me, I have grown in reading this, wowza...paradoxically, a few years ago, I took a break from reading your work. Had shared a few times in your call for responding to your posts. Often found the tone, questioning and responses, off putting. And I trust the growing edges of my response and hung in. Deep respect is hard for me to put into words, but you have mine.
I really appreciate your candor Lynn, and thanks for trusting your instincts and still giving me a chance to grow and change and mature as a teacher. Sorry if I let you down in the past and glad to connect with you here.
It's either one way, or another. The materialist standpoint is the body has a mind (soul, if you will), and the spiritual standpoint is the mind has (projects) a body. The bypass is saying the second, but showing the first by your actions.
Perhaps the most famous example of spiritual bypass is the practice of Christian Scientists who dogmatically force others to choose spiritual healing and not go to doctors, which has led to disaster, that is exactly the case in point. At that point people simply wish, and/or pretend that they would be spiritual, but they are nowhere near ready.
thank you Lissa, joined yearly subscription. this is a brilliant essay! I appreciate your candor and willingness to share your process. Much of what you shared resonates with my healing journey, story as well.
FYI Your rigorous and passionate research has surely grown you!!! and me, I have grown in reading this, wowza...paradoxically, a few years ago, I took a break from reading your work. Had shared a few times in your call for responding to your posts. Often found the tone, questioning and responses, off putting. And I trust the growing edges of my response and hung in. Deep respect is hard for me to put into words, but you have mine.
I really appreciate your candor Lynn, and thanks for trusting your instincts and still giving me a chance to grow and change and mature as a teacher. Sorry if I let you down in the past and glad to connect with you here.
It's either one way, or another. The materialist standpoint is the body has a mind (soul, if you will), and the spiritual standpoint is the mind has (projects) a body. The bypass is saying the second, but showing the first by your actions.
Perhaps the most famous example of spiritual bypass is the practice of Christian Scientists who dogmatically force others to choose spiritual healing and not go to doctors, which has led to disaster, that is exactly the case in point. At that point people simply wish, and/or pretend that they would be spiritual, but they are nowhere near ready.