Wednesday, July 19, 2006
WHEN WE USE THE SAME WORDS DO WE MEAN THE SAME THING ?
The following is an announcement from last Sunday's bulletin - the one that included the flyers I've been writing about this week:
PROGRAMS AT ST. JOSEPH CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTER - INNER HEALING: An Affair of the Heart Saturday, August 5, 8 am - Sunday, August 6, 1 pm
Directed by Deacon Leo McNulty
Most, if not all people, experience hurt, loss, pain and rejection sometime in their life. Many times this loss occurred long ago but it still impacts and limits their freedom and happiness years later. Inner Healing, An Affair of the Heart is an overnight retreat where you gently and lovingly get in touch with your hurts, pains and losses and experience the healing presence and touch of Jesus. Led by Deacon Leo McNulty it is an experience filled with sharing, learning, music and above all healing. It is a time to get in touch with the beauty of your inner child and experience the healing that you deserve. Join Deacon Leo on this overnight retreat and take a very important step on your journey to wholeness. The cost for this retreat is $80, includes meals and accommodations, double occupancy. TO REGISTER FOR THIS PROGRAM CALL 216-531-7370x0 or FAX: 216.531.0629. Register Online: www.enterthecenter.org.
That is not religion. That is psychology. Can one practice psychology without a license?
In any case...the jargon:
"Inner healing" "get in touch with your hurts, pains and losses"
The phrases are used at the Starwood XVII website "Speakers and Workshops." There you can read about the "Inner Healing Message Workshop" where you can "get in touch with past traumas and abuse."
I have reported on Starwood before. This is the Pagan festival that takes place at a campground in New York. It is coordinated out of an office in Cleveland Heights, Ohio by the Association for Consciousness Exploration. The same office promotes the WinterStar Symposium, held in Delroy, Ohio, where "Catholic priestess" Dagmar Braun Celeste said mass. Both events are attended by Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of the ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY with Patricia Monaghan's deceased husband Robert Shea--Monaghan being the author of Pagan books and a professor at DePaul University. The ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY includes a black mass.
If the language denotes the beliefs of Paganism, why does it also denote the beliefs of Catholicism? If the language denotes merely psychological beliefs, why does the Catholic Church present it as a "retreat" which is spiritual?
"Inner child"
At the website of The Gnostic Center of Enlightenment, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mara Sophia Ellen Weis R.O., ThD.D., in an essay titled "The Christ Complex" says:
The psychological paradigm of emergence theory of the inner child asserts (as a friend of mine explained) that the inner child acts as the portal of the soul during spiritual awakening. As adults we view the soul through a darkened glass. But, as we grow spiritually, spiritual development allows us to realize our full potential behind the innocence of the child we once were.
"Journey to wholeness"
The phrase "Gnostic journey to wholeness" appears in "The Gnosis of Remembering: A Homily for All Soul's Day" at the website of the "Gnostic Homilies of Rev. Steven Marshall"
If the language denotes Gnostic concepts of religion, why does it appear in a Roman Catholic bulletin? Was the concept part of Roman Catholicism prior to Vatican II?
There is a Gnostic “Heart Doctrine” which opposes the “Eye Doctrine”. I don’t know enough about it yet to know whether this is the same concept that is represented by “An Affair of the Heart”, the title of this St. Joseph Christian Life Center Inner Healing retreat.
You can read about the Heart Doctrine here and here. Two things are certain, the Heart Doctrine concerns psychological concepts. Most Gnostic doctrine is channeled.
The Institute for Global Spirituality refers to the Heart Doctrine in the quotes on the left side of the website. They also use quotes from Hermes Trismegistus, H. P. Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Roerich, Alice Bailey, and Dione Fortune there on the left.
