Re: Diversity & Other Topics

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In a message dated 4/4/2000 10:25:58 AM Central Daylight Time,

shadowcatcher@... writes:

<< Now we have become so far advanced in medical skill that our best

geneticists can promise us that the deterioration of the human race

is assured unless some less intrusive action is taken. >>

Now, S.C., let's lay back and let the young hot-heads take over. Our job is

to enjoy the sunsets and sunrises while we can. I hope to have a ranch house

some day with a porch on each side. In the morning I'll sit on the one

facing the rising sun, drink two mugs of my favorite coffee, say my prayers,

then go do a few chores. In the evening I'll go sit on the other porch, have

two Glenlivets, say my prayers, and go watch a movie. Prescription for an

easy last stand to a busy life.

Yeah, I miss Gwynne (?), Gwen (?), or both of them. I get people mixed up.

Speaking of......... I finished Romanyshyn's, The Soul in Grief. Some great

ruminating there, but after a whole book, it starts to sound like whining. I

take it that the book is his emptying his soul and so is a very personal

expression. But after a hundred pages I want out of the funeral home.

Next week is my lecture at East Texas State University. That's not really

its name, but I refuse to call it Texas A & M University at Commerce. Topic:

" Why C. G. Jung Will Never Be a Part of a University Curriculum. " I hope

to get my thumb in some people's eyes with that one, namely those who work in

the psychology department.

Last Sunday I talked to the adult class about Psalm 122. I see this as an

outward expression of the archetype of wholeness (namely, Jerusalem with its

walls and gates, and this psalm is a procession to the Temple). Jerusalem as

the sacred city, as the center of the world, representing the center of the

psyche. Unity is also a theme, as over against disintegration when the

center is lost. Check it out.

" Peace be within your walls and quietness within your towers " , S. C. and

others.

Gene Baker