If I understand your question, the intellect is the default system. It takes charge,so it seems we must engage in practices that integrate the body, the intellect and the emotions. I hope that does justice to your important question.
There’s something in this that feels less like an argument and more like a mirror.
Not because it’s trying to prove anything, but because it quietly asks where surrender actually lives in our lives; not in language, not in identity, but in practice.
“Submission is the surrender of the false self.” That line stayed with me. Not as a statement about one tradition or another, but as something that cuts across all of them.
It’s easy to speak about faith in terms of protection, identity, or even defense. Much harder to sit with what it asks us to release.
And maybe that’s the part that gets lost; not what we believe, but what we’re willing to let go of in order to live it.
"Christian Nationalism cannot bear that kind of reminder because its own prayer life has often been reduced to territorial performance."
I think that is why the first response is anger when their beliefs are challenged. There is little substance behind the prayer life of the indoctrinated. It's all part of the circle to bring you back to obedience -- or submission.
The intellect cannot say “i surrender”. Only the heart can do that
If I understand your question, the intellect is the default system. It takes charge,so it seems we must engage in practices that integrate the body, the intellect and the emotions. I hope that does justice to your important question.
There’s something in this that feels less like an argument and more like a mirror.
Not because it’s trying to prove anything, but because it quietly asks where surrender actually lives in our lives; not in language, not in identity, but in practice.
“Submission is the surrender of the false self.” That line stayed with me. Not as a statement about one tradition or another, but as something that cuts across all of them.
It’s easy to speak about faith in terms of protection, identity, or even defense. Much harder to sit with what it asks us to release.
And maybe that’s the part that gets lost; not what we believe, but what we’re willing to let go of in order to live it.
Stay entangled, my friend.
—The Bathrobe Guy
"Christian Nationalism cannot bear that kind of reminder because its own prayer life has often been reduced to territorial performance."
I think that is why the first response is anger when their beliefs are challenged. There is little substance behind the prayer life of the indoctrinated. It's all part of the circle to bring you back to obedience -- or submission.
you have to ditch Amazon!
I'm sorry that that's all I commented. I thank you so much and appreciate your writings and really like this one as well!