Just an idea of how Taoist principles and Christian mythology can be integrated to create healing:
I used to have a teacher that would tell me to go to Hell when I would try and be clever. It took me a while (and an excellent tai chi teacher) to get the reference: he was talking about Gnostic hell. Hellfire: the agony that cleanses one of the sinful, mortal physical world. This can also be considered moving into the dimension of all of the "Dead" parts of oneself that are ignored. It is common to want to live life comfortably, in a fluid and functioning mode. So, people abide by all of their knowledge and use it as a template for interaction. This is denying God, because God, in Gnostic terms and Taoist principles, is beyond knowledge and beyond reason. So, if people live a life purely rationally, pragmatically, linearly, controlled, collected, analytically, scientifically etc. then they are denying God. They must, in order to be cleansed, "go to Hell." The hellfire burns away the illusions of knowledge and fact and strips away the power of reason to control attention. This is not a pleasant process. However, it is a necessary step in order to eventually reach "Heaven" which is the world of being connected to God. So, Hell is being stripped of reason, Heaven is living consciously within the Kingdom of God. As one generates aliveness in the dead parts of themselves, in Hell, they are simultaneously increasing their connection to God in the Heaven Realm. Justice can only be done to the realm of reason (knowledge- the mundane plane) when it can be viewed for what it is from the non-local dimension of Heaven. With the two simultaneously existing in different dimensions of "reality" they interact and manifest powerful and healing creative action.
I used to have a teacher that would tell me to go to Hell when I would try and be clever. It took me a while (and an excellent tai chi teacher) to get the reference: he was talking about Gnostic hell. Hellfire: the agony that cleanses one of the sinful, mortal physical world. This can also be considered moving into the dimension of all of the "Dead" parts of oneself that are ignored. It is common to want to live life comfortably, in a fluid and functioning mode. So, people abide by all of their knowledge and use it as a template for interaction. This is denying God, because God, in Gnostic terms and Taoist principles, is beyond knowledge and beyond reason. So, if people live a life purely rationally, pragmatically, linearly, controlled, collected, analytically, scientifically etc. then they are denying God. They must, in order to be cleansed, "go to Hell." The hellfire burns away the illusions of knowledge and fact and strips away the power of reason to control attention. This is not a pleasant process. However, it is a necessary step in order to eventually reach "Heaven" which is the world of being connected to God. So, Hell is being stripped of reason, Heaven is living consciously within the Kingdom of God. As one generates aliveness in the dead parts of themselves, in Hell, they are simultaneously increasing their connection to God in the Heaven Realm. Justice can only be done to the realm of reason (knowledge- the mundane plane) when it can be viewed for what it is from the non-local dimension of Heaven. With the two simultaneously existing in different dimensions of "reality" they interact and manifest powerful and healing creative action.
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