What is it that weaves between us...
Well this discussion group on "Experiencing the Christ" is finally open formally. By a wonderful piece of synchronicity John Ralph has just posted a link to an article on the therapeutic relationship:
George Kunz considers what makes therapy therapeutic and reaches the conclusion that the relationship between client and counsellor has a religious quality. http://www.meaning.ca/archives/archive/art_what-makes-therapy-theraputic_G_Kunz.htm
We think that the Christ is a being we must experience separately, perhaps through a vision in the clouds. That's all very well for those who have such experiences, but for the rest of us I wonder if we can find the Christ sometimes in our relationships, in "what weaves between us" when we come together in one way or another. I think this article is a great example of "Christ in You" at work in human relationships.
What do others think? Is the Christ to be found by approaching every relationship, every human being as sacred? How can this be done? Does anyone have experiences great or small they can share?
Gloria
Wonderful wonderful Tim
1 Corinthians 6:17 'But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit'
Rudolf Steiner: OS preface to the 1913 edition
He who eliminates in his own soul the personal peculiarities which separate him from the World reaches a common realm of experience.
St Luke 17:21 'Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you'
Thanks Tim,
'We are fools for Christ' :)
Plurality?
Great synthesising and relativity Tim! You further convince me that all our conversations are only percepts of One Human Converse.
I tentatively think that within our searching for all the connections, ultimately we are able to find that there is One Arisen Connection.
birch
One day some birch told me:
I am here
I am free
Christ in me.
Christ in Tree
Interesting Olga... so would that imply that we find Christ in our relationship with other aspects of creation as well as in human relationships?
words
I brought these words into the group while working with biography.
Therapeutic therapy…
Hi Tim,
Thank you and John for the wonderful article “What makes therapy therapeutic?”, which is very important and close to my feelings and experiences, especially these words: “The therapist suffers because he values the infinite goodness of this suffering person. She is good. Her suffering is not good. He suffers because she suffers….”
Sacredness of the meeting, mood of devotion while we meet another person who needs our help, leads us to meet the Truth in me and in different person. In atmosphere of embracing love and compassion, Christ in me meets with Christ in her, becomes One, because He is the One…
It is not only healing, but also blessing for patients and therapists…
And humility…
I am quite confused to write about it, because silence is more suitable for those experiences…Although in our materialistic times, it is good to share with others, to show that something like that is really happening.
I am happy there are people who talk about it and professors who teach their students about things like that.
Medicines and therapies in far history were always sacred. Although nowadays there are many critics about connecting medicine with religion, I think it is the future.
“Summing up, therapy is therapeutic when client and therapist offer to each other the gift of simple reality as bare and naked before each other, without the complexity of social status, or ideology, or psychological theory. They are two people standing toward each other with nothing but themselves to present their reality.”
Silence
Thank you for those words Olga, you are right of course thanks for reminding me - yes I also find there are many times when words are simply inadequate in the face of the sacred reality of relationship.
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…but we cannot do anything without words here…
:-)
With the Best Wishes
Olga