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Bishop Spong Claims That a Jewish Mystic Wrote the Gospel According to John (REVIEW ESSAY)

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The unknown author portrays the supposedly earthly Jesus as saying, "I give you a new commandment: love one another; as I have loved you, you are to love one another" (John 13:34 REB).

So there you have the formula for shamanic healing in a nutshell. Of course this formula presupposes that you are accessing the Self. Of course this is easier said than done.

I myself have no reason to think that I am capable of serving as a mediator to help facilitate somebody's experience of shamanic healing of archetypal wounding -- as the historical Jesus, St. Ignatius Loyola, and Dr. Jung could. No doubt the world today could benefit from having more spiritual directors and psychotherapists who are capable of serving as mediators and facilitators in helping people experience shamanic healing of their archetypal wounding.

In light of this shortage, I guess we'll just have to try to follow the formula to love one another -- and be patient.

Nevertheless, I understand that non-Christians might not find the Gospel According to John to be helpful as a guide to having their own experiences of encountering the Self in their psyches.

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, Jung discusses the culmination and outcome of the successful individuation process in the second half of adult life as involving personal transformation. In theory, this kind of personal transformation is a possibility that is available not only to progressives and liberals in the United States today, but also to conservatives and theocons.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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