Last week, I wrote about Carl Jung and the prayer that turns to what is not known, not felt, not understood but is loved. This article is based on the transcript of a discussion I had with Tim Nash from the Nomad podcast, published as Silence and the Search for God.
Tim from Nomad Podcast
Mark, you’ve spoken before about being a priest, becoming disillusioned, and going through a kind of breakdown. When you look back now, what was actually falling apart for you at that time?
Mark
I was relying too much on how I imagined a connection with God might be. I read so much about it and been around people who seemed to have this connection. But I didn’t actually form one for myself or find out quite what my path was. That has become clearer to me more recently.
So having the freedom to discover what your point of contact with the divine actually is, is really fundamental. I could say more about what my particular path is: broadly speaking, is what’s known as the apophatic path. “The Cloud of Unknowing”, for example, one of the great mystical texts of Western Christianity, is one that directly captures that for me.
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