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Hjärtevärmande ljuva och ljusa mystika upplevelser. Och något om Guds försyn

Publicerad 2020-10-09 18:28:34 i God, God's providence, Joy and hope, Microlife philosophy, Mystics and mysticism, Prayer answers, Prayers, Salvation, The Spirit World, Universalism, the doctrine about the final salvation of all, Visions,

(repris av ett blogginlägg från För naturens skull-bloggen, här)
 
denna artikel har psykologen och religionspsykologen dr. Ken R. Vincent samlat en del mystika upplevelser med universalistiska (läran om allas slutliga frälsning, apokatastasis) drag. Här kommer ett par av dem:
 
Följande upplevelse är från Sir Alister Hardys The Spiritual Nature of Man. Study of contem-porary religious experience (1979), och beskriver prästen, Dr. Leslie Weatherheads upplevelse som ung:
 
"This is the only way I know in which to describe the moment, for there was nothing to see at all. I felt caught up into some tremendous sense of being within a loving, triumphant and shining purpose. I never felt more humble. I never felt more exalted. A most curious, but overwhelming sense possessed me and filled me with ecstasy. I felt that all was well for mankind-how poor the words seem!  The word ‘well’ is so poverty stricken. All men were shining and glorious beings who in the end would enter incredible joy. Beauty, music, joy, love immeasurable and a glory unspeakable they would inherit. Of this they were heirs."
 
 
I Prof. David Hays bok Exploring Inner Space. Scientists and religious experience (1987), minns en kvinnlig skribent en mystik upplevelse från barndomen:
 
"My father used to take all the family for a walk on Sunday evenings. On one such walk, we wandered across a narrow path through a field of high, ripe corn. I lagged behind, and found myself alone. Suddenly, heaven blazed upon me. I was enveloped in golden light, I was conscious of a presence, so kind, so loving, so bright, so consoling, so commanding, existing apart from me but so close. I heard no sound. But words fell into my mind quite clearly — ‘Everything is all right. Everybody will be all right.’ "
 
 
Sådana ljuvliga upplevelser rimmar väl med min mikrolivsfilosofi, att atomerna är "Gud". Ty atomerna är i allt och ser allt och vakar över oss, och ser till att ingen måste lida för mycket. De är oss närmare än våra egna tankar, och leder oss vist till den eviga glädjen. Det är de som beslutar ytterst över vårt liv och vår död, och kan ta oss hem till himlen om vi inte orkar mer. Och inte minst, de hör våra böner och suckar.
 
Världens mest kända bönemänniska, George Müller från Bristol (1805-1895), fick 50 000 bönesvar under sin livstid, och han bokförde sina böner och bönesvar, så att han kunde räkna dem. Alla dessa kan inte ha varit tillfälligheter, som en ateist-naturalist skulle påstå.

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Lars Larsen

Born 1984 in Finland. Norwegian, lives in Stockholm, Sweden. Poet, ecotheologian and ecophilosopher (though not an academic such in both cases, although he studied theology for almost three years at Åbo Academy University), is also called "The monk" ("munken", he is monk in a self-founded monastery order, "Den Heliga Naturens Orden", "The Order of the Holy Nature"), he calls himself "Forest Man Snailson" (Skogsmannen Snigelson) because of certain strong ties to Nature and the animals, founded among other things through many years of homelessness living in tent, cot, cave and several huts in the Flaten Nature Reserve, the Nacka Reserve and "Kaknästornsskogen" outside of Stockholm. He debuted as a poet in 2007 with "Över floden mig" ("Across the river of me"), published by himself, he has also published an ecotheological work, "Djurisk teologi. Paradisets återkomst" (Animalistic theology. The return of paradise") on Titel förlag 2010. He has published the poem collection "Naturens återkomst" (The return of Nature) on Fri Press förlag 2018 together with Titti Spaltro, his ex-girlfriend. Lars's professions are two, cleaner and painter (buildings). Before he was homeless, but right now he lives in Attendo Herrgårdsvägen, a psychiatric group home for mental patients in Danderyd, Stockholm. His adress is: Herrgårdsvägen 25, 18239 Danderyd, Sverige. One can reach him in the comments section on this blog. His texts on this blog are without copyright, belonging to "Public Domain". He is the author of the texts, if no one is mentioned.

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