We speak today often of...
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We speak today often of healing as the restoring of wholeness in place of brokenness. Paul Tillich dramatically referred to human sinfulness at its root as estrangement from God. This estrangement also fractures an individual within him/herself. A term which is not so often used because of the more judicious understanding of mental illness is the word "crazy"; in German this word literally means "broken." Being broken prevents internal harmony or peace with God our Creator. In Freud's terminology this inner harmony comes with resolution of inner conflicts. According to Carl Jung, inner wholeness comes with a restoration of balance and harmony of the ego and the self. In spite of obvious oversimplifications of the contributions of Freud and Jung, the note of a healthy harmony comes through, not unlike the depth and breadth of the concept of shalom from the Bible --wholeness and harmony of spirit and body.
In a scene from the docu-drama, Little Big Man, this character watches from across a stream with his Indian grandfather in horror as the cavalry destroy their village with much loss of life to his people. "How can these men do this, grandfather?" "They have lost the center of their universe."
In a scene from the docu-drama, Little Big Man, this character watches from across a stream with his Indian grandfather in horror as the cavalry destroy their village with much loss of life to his people. "How can these men do this, grandfather?" "They have lost the center of their universe."
