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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
For some reason I thought I had read all of the books in this series until I picked up and realize I skipped over the fifth to the sixth. Going back to the fifth in the series has been refreshing. Mystical Paths covers more of Darrow's psychic powers with a twist of solving a mystery in both the physical as well as psychosocialspiritual realm as well. Howatch wonderfully integrates mystery, psychology, and spirituality. An interesting note is that a many characters that have lost their spirituality have fallen into addiction, many of whom are unaware of one or both. My only critique is she sometimes doesn't know when to end a novel as this one had the potential to end at least three different times.
top quotes:
you're living at odds with the man you have the potential to become.
The sad part was that everything I said was true but I was going about the healing in entirely the wrong way. As I was to be taught later, you can’t heal the sick by force-feeding them with ideas they’re not ready to accept; you can’t cure people by the simple imposition of your will. It’s the power of the Holy Spirit that heals, not the power of a would-be wonder-worker trying to play God.
So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one’s being.”
Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the inner self, the self that’s authentic, the self that contains the potential to be fully human, fully fulfilled and fully alive.
“No demon can withstand the power of Christ,” said my father, repeating the words he had used long ago, and what he meant was that no dissociated mind can withstand the integrating power of the Living God whose spark lies deep in the core of the unconscious mind and who can not only heal the shattered ego but unify the entire personality.
Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.
Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)
Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God’s designed him to be.”
That writer certainly realised that the quest for God is a quest for psychic integration, a wholeness which allows the ego to be subjugated, the true self to triumph and the entire personality, conscious and unconscious, to be open to and at one with God’s will and God’s love.
top quotes:
you're living at odds with the man you have the potential to become.
The sad part was that everything I said was true but I was going about the healing in entirely the wrong way. As I was to be taught later, you can’t heal the sick by force-feeding them with ideas they’re not ready to accept; you can’t cure people by the simple imposition of your will. It’s the power of the Holy Spirit that heals, not the power of a would-be wonder-worker trying to play God.
So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one’s being.”
Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the inner self, the self that’s authentic, the self that contains the potential to be fully human, fully fulfilled and fully alive.
“No demon can withstand the power of Christ,” said my father, repeating the words he had used long ago, and what he meant was that no dissociated mind can withstand the integrating power of the Living God whose spark lies deep in the core of the unconscious mind and who can not only heal the shattered ego but unify the entire personality.
Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.
Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)
Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God’s designed him to be.”
That writer certainly realised that the quest for God is a quest for psychic integration, a wholeness which allows the ego to be subjugated, the true self to triumph and the entire personality, conscious and unconscious, to be open to and at one with God’s will and God’s love.