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66 - The Anthropology of Mysticism

The Symbolic World

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You Have the Capacity to Enter Into the Life of God

In the Orthodox tradition, if it's properly understood, we don't believe that we become God by nature. The purpose that God created us for is to enter into a true communion like a man and a woman become one body. To God unites himself with our soul. And now you have to think about those things they're not arbitrary. This idea of attention, what happens when you pay it? We use another word, we call it focus,. What does that mean exactly? Right? It means concentrating on something which needs to move towards the middle. That's what this notion of being attentive has in mind.

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