Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 01:14:41 -0400
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Symbols: Part Two By: Reverend R Clark <clark@acceleration.net>
Symbols: Parts: One, Two, Three, and Four.
Greetings Margaret Dexter and ALL!
At 07:40 PM 10/4/2004, Margaret Dexter wrote: My first teacher had us burn the symbols after II, and I kept forgetting them and taking the class again. After returning to the US I took I/II again with a master that allowed us to keep the symbols. I then did Reiki Master training with a 3rd teacher. After teaching Reiki for a while and wanting more to offer my masters, I took Advanced Reiki Training and repeated Master with other masters trained by William Rand, so I have the Tibetan symbols, and I took I/II yet again with one of those masters.
- My WoKi (half Wolf, half HusKi, half something completely other worldly) companion named Wizda (wisdom with no dumb what so ever) tells me such "dog"ma as "Margaret Dexter" speaks of has its place, for folks that need it. Symbols, for instance, she goes on to say are for the "symbol minded" and rather like training wheels on a bicycle, are pretty necessary and at least useful at first and optional or not needed as a one becomes more accustomed to the skills involved. I think by far more important than dogma is checking in with Spirit as no one and no system has the last word on any thing.
“Imagination is the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.”
- Thomas Merton quoted in The Celtic Way of Prayer by Esther de Waal
“Hadj - a rite of passage accomplished on two feet. I especially admired the way the sweat and the symbols flowed together. By an act of imagination and exertion, a spiritual rite of some duration fulfilled a private quest.”
- Michael Wolfe in The Hadj
“We never "catch up with" reality itself. The real nature of mystery always evades our attempts to conceptualize it, and escapes the nets of our language and symbolism. Its depths are never plumbed. Mystery is always linked to passion, enthusiasm and all great emotions, in short, to life's deepest and greatest impulses.”
- Leonardo Boff in Ecology and Liberation
“We are what we pretend to be.”
- Kurt Vonnegut
“Zen teachers often use the image of "taking tea with the demons." Fear - to name merely one demon - grows huge as we flee from it, but, when we turn and face it, it shrinks.”
- Mary Rose O'Reilley (The Barn at the End of the World)
Symbols: Continued on Page Three.
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