Morton Kelsey - Reality Quotes

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Myth can act almost like throwing open a window to reveal reality that is not being touched by the rational, Aristotelian approach.

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Almost any reality which we fail to confront and deal with in some way, will try to possess us. This is as true of autonomous complexes or spirits as of germs and bacteria.

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Myth and ritual act as transformers in bringing people the value of spiritual reality, just as an electrical transformer... The dream also provides the same kind of stepped-down encounter.

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The problem confronting the modern church is... to discover this new, and yet very old way of looking at reality mythologically. This is the Platonic, the psychological, the Christian way of expressing spiritual reality, through images and symbols, and it is the only way of approaching this realm as a living reality. Otherwise it must be broken down into elements and is dead.

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The greater the man, the more subject he is to the ravaging effects of the negative side of this reality.

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If humankind is open to another dimension of reality, then the dream may be one of the most common avenues through which God reaches out to us.

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The Eastern or Greek Orthodox tradition has never turned its back upon the dream or the myth.... it has continued to believe that spiritual reality is mediated to men through mythological images in story and actions, and in the pictorial representation of the icon.

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Religious practice provides three... mythological methods of coming to terms with spiritual reality and finding the treasure within it. One way is to study the myth in its historical context... And for modern Christians this means trying to see the psychological meaning of myth in the development of human consciousness. A second way is through ritual in which the mythological story is acted out... And third, he can sometimes step into the myth imaginatively through meditation, actually entering the spiritual world... and becoming active and effective in it.

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There is no painless way of coming into contact with spiritual reality.

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