RE: The (Not So) Hidden Truth About Jesus & Law Of Attraction - Pt. 1

You preach in church. Personally, I don't know anyone who takes the Bible literally, but they are supposed to exist.

Like many of us who were raised Christian and the lack of inclusion of Christian rituals and actions in normal everyday life, I see an overly intellectualised approach to the teachings that are out there in the world.
It reminds me of my own tendencies to want to teach people something that I assumed had to inspire others as much as myself. Looking back years later, I realise that it wasn't so much something I had really learned as something I wanted to talk about. I listened to countless speeches by "Abraham Hicks through Esther", was impressed, only to later back away from it, it was too much talk for me. Although I found it an excellent entertainment show, the audience and visitors with their questions for Esther encountered a woman who was exceedingly eloquent and charismatic, like so many itinerant preachers and stage people.

As one thief recognises another, I am probably speaking from the memory of my impulse to already teach something that I myself had not sufficiently explored.

Moreover, spirituality without practice is mostly navel-gazing, where the individual, well-fed, does his meditation or yoga within his four walls and thinks he is practising. The strength of community in the physical sense, what constitutes culture, is not found in it, in my opinion. I don't want to minimise intellectual study, but I think modern man is the proverbial ivory tower dweller.

I see spiritual practice realised in people offering their accompaniment in the events of birth and death, in seeing themselves as self-aware birth and death helpers in the face of illness, old age and dying, where it is also a matter of, for example, cutting the toenails of the frail father, learning liturgical chants, saying goodbye as a congregation to someone who has died, pastoral visits to relatives, etc. Welcoming young people who are discovering their sexuality into the adult world through ritual and tests of courage. Here dance, the group, the actions are learned and have been in the flesh. Sadly, little of this remains and it seems to me that the loss of communities and cultural heritage has merely led to approaching the world of scriptures and teachings with a cognitive overhang.

The study of Christian as well as non-Christian teachings alone is hardly sufficient in my eyes to be able to connect Trinity with real and often mundane life, and also often perceived as troublesome. It is rather a realistic realisation that one's own existence can neither be called glorious nor particularly outstanding, though there is nothing to be said against taking pleasure in such things as one achieved as effortless and spontaneously gratifying.

Without practice, theory is rather worthless, without theory, practice is dull routine.