Rupture of the Ordinary edit Fri, 10/19/18 Richard Rohr,

Rupture of the Ordinary edit

Fri, 10/19/18

Richard Rohr, 

https://cac.org/rupture-of-the-ordinary-2018-10-19/

suffering transformed kidnapped peoples 

how

contemplative community

Together they wept & moaned

 in a forced community 

that cut across tribal

 & cultural lines. 

the horrific transition from personhood to property and nonidentity. 

rupture

  not ordinary suffering... 

exceed/s the limits of human 

imagination & assessment.

Holocaust against 

one group or another

 cannot be contained 

within the bounds of 

the individual human body.

 Instead, oppression

 of this magnitude forces a community beyond courage & individual survival skills into a state of unresolved shock and disassociation

Under these

 conditions, 

the interiority of

 the community

 becomes a living 

“flow” that 

sustains the 

afflicted. . . .

the stage upon which the human drama unfolds. . 

unity is the ultimate 

outcome of flow 

[or contemplation],

angst and anguish 

are the fertile sites 

of its emergence. 

They focused their intentions on survival 

pain that does not abate

can't be

 integrated 

into human

reality structures

there is an

 aspect of suffering 

that is not within our rational reach. 

Pain/is a parallel 

universe/

Pain sends 

shock-waves that break

 over our unconscious, daring us to succumb

hope of understanding:

align ourselves 

with a  groaning universe

Be committed 

to cycles of birth, 

rebirth,& the longing

 for a just order. 

“suffering arises with the ‘loss of the ability to pursue purpose.’ Thus in suffering we face the loss of our own personal universe.”

~Eric Cassell

the moan

Moans flowed through each wracked body and drew each soul toward the 

center of contemplation. . . .

a displacement of 
the ordinary

a paradigm shift 

a temporary refuge 

when human suffering 

reaches the extent of 

spiritual & psychic dissolution

a state of extraordinary spiritual attenuation, a removal to a level of reality that allows distance from excruciating circumstances.

[dissociation] 

/attenuation:

the reduction of the force, effect,. 

or value of something.Regression

process

Distortion

 A gradual diminishing of strength. 

 a weakening/

portal:

a break in the ordinary, exposing the complexity and chaos of a universe that sanctions both pleasure and pain.