the retreat into abstraction … in fear of feelings and emotions … schizoid experience and God. “Being closer to God is having more participation in, more inclusion of the Experience of Reality….”

the retreat into abstraction…in fear of feelings and emotions, with their peripheries of darkness and pain: schizoid experience and God 

“Being closer to God is having more participation in, more inclusion of the Experience of Reality. 

“This does not mean that God is not of the mind at all, is not “mental.” Feelings and experiences include the mental. For deep and profound understandings and overstandings of Reality are experiences also.

“There is the focusing on the map of Reality that distracts one from actual experience of Reality, true. There is also the retreat into abstraction in avoidance of and in fear of feelings and emotions, with their peripheries of darkness and pain … also true.

More at…

http://sillymickel.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-retreat-into-abstraction-in-fear-of.html …

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