by Peggy Flynn | Jun 30, 2022 | All, Spiritual Direction, Studies
Thank you, especially to Gregory Bateson and Milton Erickson for one of the insights that changed my life—language shapes perception. How we talk about something or someone creates the context for discovering and relating to it’s mystery. The reality of...
by Peggy Flynn | Aug 27, 2021 | Aging, All, Spiritual Direction
Yes, I know we are engulfed in scenes of apocalyptic-scale catastrophes across the globe. Fires. Floods. Populations displaced and at risk. War. Hunger. Covid and other diseases running rampant. The economy is growing/the economy is shrinking. All of this is...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 30, 2021 | Aging, All, Dying and Dealth, Spiritual Direction
Some years ago I attended a workshop taught by Bernadette Roberts, a contemporary Christian mystic. She made the offhand comment that she wished there were no autobiographies written by mystics and saints. Why? In her opinion seekers read these and compare and...
by Peggy Flynn | Apr 9, 2021 | All, Spiritual Direction
Pre-Covid, I was walking past a playground and a small child was calling out to her mother from the top of a slide: Watch me, Mommy, watch me! The mother kept repeating: I see you. Taking in the scene I realized that two things were going on. For one, the child was...
by Peggy Flynn | Mar 19, 2021 | All, Spiritual Direction
Free associating about the word spirit. Team spirit. Full of spirit. Spirited. Dispirited. Not material. Not tangible. Lively. Full of life. Enlivening. The Holy Spirit. So much has been written and sung about something no one can see or touch. Yet how many of us...
by Peggy Flynn | Sep 3, 2018 | Aging, All, Books, Health Care, Spiritual Direction
A human being: body/mind/spirit. An aging human being: an aging body/mind/spirit. The three are interwoven into a structure—a kind of triple helix that becomes more and more unique over time. It is vital to keep all three elements in mind whichever one is first...