This entry is great. Really resonates, especially these lines:
"If you ignore this feeling it will go away, finding another soul open to its directions."
"It will resist direct force and control. But the more you relax and allow it to speak through you, the easier it will be."
"If we hold onto a false belief that newthing will last forever, then we will eventually betray its essence."
Looking at the failure modes (or "sins": missing the mark) of being in relationship with the newthing (or source, daemon, etc): ego (being attached to the special-feeling for merely being the chosen vessel), fear (of being disliked, of "death," of losing the transcendent aliveness), greed (wanting your self-severing goals to be superordinate to the newthings goals), etc.
Also, it seems like the newthing heroes journey is in service toward wholeness. If optimal grip is maintained, the soul-ecstatic to soul-suffering quest ("joy, pain, relief, feeling trapped, feeling lost, and letting go") makes one more whole, and the hopefully world along with it, once on the other side.
I love this summary! Yancey has a way of making the mundane sacred.
This entry is great. Really resonates, especially these lines:
"If you ignore this feeling it will go away, finding another soul open to its directions."
"It will resist direct force and control. But the more you relax and allow it to speak through you, the easier it will be."
"If we hold onto a false belief that newthing will last forever, then we will eventually betray its essence."
Looking at the failure modes (or "sins": missing the mark) of being in relationship with the newthing (or source, daemon, etc): ego (being attached to the special-feeling for merely being the chosen vessel), fear (of being disliked, of "death," of losing the transcendent aliveness), greed (wanting your self-severing goals to be superordinate to the newthings goals), etc.
Also, it seems like the newthing heroes journey is in service toward wholeness. If optimal grip is maintained, the soul-ecstatic to soul-suffering quest ("joy, pain, relief, feeling trapped, feeling lost, and letting go") makes one more whole, and the hopefully world along with it, once on the other side.