Walk a Sacred Path #1 of 8 - Becoming comfortable in uncertainty

7th Oct 2024

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

Oscar Wilde

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In the classic C.S. Lewis story ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ the four Pevensie siblings – Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter are evacuated from London in 1940 to escape the bombing blitz. They are sent to stay with Professor Digory Kirke at a large house in the English countryside and whilst playing hide and seek one day, the youngest child Lucy, hides in a wardrobe. Fearing she will be found, Lucy goes deeper into the wardrobe and to her surprise ends up in a mystical land called Narnia where animals speak and a battle between the evil White Witch and Aslan the Lion unfolds.

Books like ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, the Tolkien books ‘The Hobbit’ and the ‘The Lord of the Rings’, and all of the films like ‘Star Wars’ that have come since talk to us about worlds where there is more to life than what we experience with our five senses. There is a battle between Good and Evil, there are unseen forces that shape destiny and there is a quest that must be undertaken.

Mystical teachings of many different faiths speak to such a world where there is more to life than the mundane – so what is the essence of these teachings and what can we practically apply in our lives in our quest to live a good and happy life? For the next 8 post I will explore some of these concepts and consider how their application.

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