Philosophy
Writing about the sacred
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I’m writing an article on the ‘sacred’ and recognizing how difficult it is to write about something that is only an experience, and my thinking mind cannot really understand.
I’m writing an article on the ‘sacred’ and recognizing how difficult it is to write about something that is only an experience, and my thinking mind cannot really understand. My thinking mind likes to believe that it understands what it means to use the word ‘sacred’. It could write a book on the sacred, it tells me, but there is a part of me that knows that the word sacred is pointing to something that is ineffable and really out of the thinking mind's understanding.
Check out the article and see how writing about the sacred took me to a very interesting place.
Sources & further reading
- The article this musing points to: Sacred medicine, sacred being
Dr Bernard Brom
Founder, Creating Health
Bernard Brom qualified in medicine in 1965. He gave it up, travelled for six years, and came back to spend the next sixty asking one question: how does health actually work? He founded the South African Society of Integrative Medicine, chaired it, started its first journal, wrote two books — and still sees a few patients every week, "to stay in touch with the territory."
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