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Niles Goldstein,
God at the Edge, Part 3
Authentic works on spirituality have never been afraid to journey to
the frontiers of personal experience. Avoiding the darker dimension of
the human soul (and its interactions with the world of the spirit) will
lead only to scratching the outer crust of our inner worlds. We may feel
good as a result. We may think we have found all the answers. But with
this approach we will never shake off our false sense of security or
encounter the full spectrum of spiritual experiences. This book is
about, and for, all those who have struggled to find God in the
religious mainstream and have had to look elsewhere. Kierkegaard calls
God the Absolute Frontier. It sometimes does take a journey to the edge,
into territory that is not always comfortable, to discover the spiritual
sustenance we so often crave. The dark forest of the inner spirit may be
murky in places, but buried in its soil are the seeds of our salvation.
Then Moses caused Israel to set out from the Sea of Reeds. They
went on into the wilderness of Shur; they traveled three days in the
wilderness and found no water. They came to Marah, but they could not
drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; that is why it was
named Marah. And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What
shall we drink?" So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed
him a piece of wood; he threw it into the water and the water became
sweet. -- Exodus 15:22-25
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