Comments on: A deep insight or a flight of fancy http://jtblog.lindajohansen.com/2008/01/10/a-deep-insight-or-a-flight-of-fancy/ Some impressions on Faith, Prayer,....and maybe sport Sat, 19 May 2012 01:18:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Jay T http://jtblog.lindajohansen.com/2008/01/10/a-deep-insight-or-a-flight-of-fancy/#comment-5 Jay T Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:14:04 +0000 http://jtblog.lindajohansen.com/2008/01/10/a-deep-insight-or-a-flight-of-fancy/#comment-5 Thanks for the comment, EMT! Our language includes multiple spirits: school spirit, patriotic spirit, the spirit of fun. I even understand Santa Claus as a spirit. In order to be clear about what spirit we are acknowledging or invoking, I'm most comfortable if folks would modify or articulate it somehow. "The Holy Spirit" works for me. As long as we're coming out of a mostly Christian culture, we might as well draw on the best of its traditions. Thanks for the comment, EMT!

Our language includes multiple spirits: school spirit, patriotic spirit, the spirit of fun. I even understand Santa Claus as a spirit.

In order to be clear about what spirit we are acknowledging or invoking, I’m most comfortable if folks would modify or articulate it somehow. “The Holy Spirit” works for me. As long as we’re coming out of a mostly Christian culture, we might as well draw on the best of its traditions.

]]> By: EMT http://jtblog.lindajohansen.com/2008/01/10/a-deep-insight-or-a-flight-of-fancy/#comment-2 EMT Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:12:16 +0000 http://jtblog.lindajohansen.com/2008/01/10/a-deep-insight-or-a-flight-of-fancy/#comment-2 "If I tell myself that my insights are from spirit, then I risk not knowing what spirit and may have diminished my understanding of authority so far that I’m in touch with nothing outside myself." I'm curious about this statement. I find myself in the group that is uncomfortable with the word "God" and more comfortable with "Spirit". For a while I've been trying to figure out what about the word bothers me. This passage helped at least a little. I think I am most uncomfortable with the notion of "A" God, and not a "transcendent and immanent" God. I am slightly more comfortable (though not completely) with the notion of a spirit that surrounds us at all times. I don't identify with a singular being located in some far off place, no matter how loving He/She/It is. I am most curious about your thought that there are multiple spirits that one could identify with or(hence?) give authority to. Do you speak of a god-like and a devil-like spirit, or more than two? My thoughts on this have always considered only a lone "spirit" that unites/surrounds us all. -EMT “If I tell myself that my insights are from spirit, then I risk not knowing what spirit and may have diminished my understanding of authority so far that I’m in touch with nothing outside myself.”

I’m curious about this statement. I find myself in the group that is uncomfortable with the word “God” and more comfortable with “Spirit”. For a while I’ve been trying to figure out what about the word bothers me. This passage helped at least a little. I think I am most uncomfortable with the notion of “A” God, and not a “transcendent and immanent” God. I am slightly more comfortable (though not completely) with the notion of a spirit that surrounds us at all times. I don’t identify with a singular being located in some far off place, no matter how loving He/She/It is.

I am most curious about your thought that there are multiple spirits that one could identify with or(hence?) give authority to. Do you speak of a god-like and a devil-like spirit, or more than two? My thoughts on this have always considered only a lone “spirit” that unites/surrounds us all.

-EMT

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