[Magdalen] Morton Kelsey, a mentor in healing

[ME Michaud]

I've been thinking about this recently (the daily office readings being
from Daniel and 1 John, both non-linear thinkers).
-M

PS: Life without free internet access is more difficult than I would
have anticipated. Very much like fasting, in fact

On Thursday, April 23, 2015, <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> He mentioned the difference in worldview between Western and Eastern,
> especially in terms of what we can know and whether this is more based on
> experience/relationship or more in objective knowledge/rationalism.
>
> For me, it's a very key issue because it comes up all the time in the
> course of our work; and as a trained health professional working in a
> medical environment but also with an interest in "wholistic" understandings
> of health and healing, I feel very caught in the midst of it - especially
> considering that many of our cultures here in South Africa are very much
> not in the "Western" mindset.
>
> I am decidedly not amongst those who will routinely rubbish "Western
> rationalism" because I find (in Western contexts at least) that forays into
> the other worldview can have unintended and often dangerous consequences.
> But nor can we dismiss the other framework, not least because it's the
> typical framework of all Scripture as well as many Christian Saints and
> scholars from that day to this.
>