To: K-list
Recieved: 2002/06/30 11:12
Subject: Re: [K-list] More Religion
From: Druout

Dear Chris, Marsha, Shiva,

Although I grew up relatively unscathed by religious indoctrination and
remain agnostic, and although I know all the horrors religions have wrought
in the world, including pain for many people on this list who have had to
grapple with religious instilled guilt (sex) and fear (hell, damnation,
etc.)-- I can't help thinking of all the great works of art that would not be
available to us without that religious indoctrination--Handle's Messiah, The
Annunciation by Far Angelic, fabulous Tibetan Thankas, the Mosque at
Cordoba, the Cathedrals at Rheims or Amines and on and on.

What interests me is that *perhaps* religion provides a framework for a more
momentous experience. I am thinking how close my raptures are to those of
St. Teresa's of Avail, a sixteenth century mystic who writes:
"[Rapture] comes, in
general, as a shock, quick and sharp, before you can collect your
thoughts, or help yourself in any way, and you see and feel it as
a cloud, or a strong eagle rising upwards and carrying you away
on its wing....I repeat it: you feel yourself carried away you
know not whither....(You) feel how delicious it is...(At) times
it was impossible to resist at all; my soul was carried
away...and now and then the whole body as well, so that it was
lifted up from the ground."

Does the framework of an *object* of one's Love provoke a more meaningful
experience?

Just mulling,

Love, Hillary

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