Understanding Spirituality and Culture through Christ

Spirituality as Purging Beauty

January 31, 2018 by Emmanuel R Paulpeter in Life Experiences, Psycho-Spirituality

The question this lays in front of Christians is this - do we wanted to be shaped by a consumerist style of beauty of the world or by God's Wabi-sabi style of purging beauty? To appreciate this sparse spiritual beauty one has to step away from one's frenzied narcissistic time into deep time which is the realm that God operates in slowly, patiently, Wabi-sabi style, removing all that is non-essential, charging us with a new Christ-like character, created through purging beauty!

Labyrinthine Renunciation of Frenzied Time

May 30, 2017 by Emmanuel R Paulpeter in Psycho-Spirituality

Renunciation of the the desire for compulsive control is going to be a long process of accepting the grace of God. The control monster, deep in my psyche, pulling me into frenzied time zone. Killing the control minotaur is about giving up the compulsive pursuit of immediate happiness in the frenzied time zone to live in the deep time in appreciation of God's grace, no matter what life throws my way.