here's another word for who I am.....

...there are two distinctively different types of religion: one type has an instinctively negative view of the material world and sees salvation in terms of flight from the material into the realm of the spiritual. The other type affirms the material world and sees the spiritual as deeply embedded within the material.

The New Spirituality by Gordon Lynch

there's a word for who I am.....

I define progressive spirituality as a particular form of religious ideology that has been refined over the past thirty or so years by a range of 'organic intellectuals' within the progressive milieu of western religion. It has emerged out of four key concerns:

• a desire for a spirituality that is appropriate for modern, liberal societies,
  
• the rejection of patriarchal forms of religion and the search for religious forms that are authentic and liberating for women
  
• the move to re-sacralize science - particularly quantum physics and cosmology
• the search for a nature-based spirituality to address the ecological catastrophe.

The New Spirituality by Gordon Lynch

Something is taking it's course.
Clov - Endgame
Beckett

I am reflecting on the 'voice' of the Self.
Is it possible that we all recognize this 'voice' - characterised by a profound sense of surprise and of lack of ego?

I had a dream on the morning of Pentecost with a dream-figure called Helen. Here is what I found when I looked-up the name:

St. Elmo's fire (also St. Elmo's light) is an electrical weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge originating from a grounded object in an atmospheric electric field (such as those generated by thunderstorms or thunderstorms created by a volcanic explosion).
St. Elmo's fire is named after St. Erasmus of Formiae (also called St. Elmo), the patron saint of sailors. The phenomenon sometimes appeared on ships at sea during thunderstorms, and was regarded by sailors with religious awe, accounting for the name.
Physically, St. Elmo's fire is a bright blue or violet glow, appearing like fire in some circumstances, from tall, sharply pointed structures such as lightning rods, masts, spires and chimneys, and on aircraft wings. St. Elmo's fire can also appear on leaves, grass, and even at the tips of cattle horns. Often accompanying the glow is a distinct hissing or buzzing sound.
In ancient Greece, the appearance of a single one was called Helena and two were called Castor and Pollux. Occasionally, it was associated with the Greek element of fire, as well as with one of Paracelsus's elementals, specifically the salamander, or, alternatively, with a similar creature referred to as an acthnici.
Welsh mariners knew it as canwyll yr ysbryd ("spirit-candles") or canwyll yr ysbryd glân ("candles of the Holy Ghost"), or the "candles of St. David".
References to St. Elmo's fire, also known as "corposants" or "corpusants" from the Portuguese corpo santo ("holy body"), can be found in the works of Julius Caesar (De Bello Africo, 47), Pliny the Elder (Naturalis Historia, book 2, par. 101) , Herman Melville, and Antonio Pigafetta's journal of his voyage with Ferdinand Magellan. St. Elmo's fire was a phenomenon described in The Lusiads.

Prayer is to religious life as dreams are to the life of the psyche: experience at the source.
Ann Ulanov.
Spirit in Jung

What is the myth in which you live? (Jung)

The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious.

A truly living symbol compels unconscious participation and has a life-giving and life-enhancing effect. Symbols of this kind, woven into a mythic structure are the functional motivators of culture. Symbols are truly symbols to those for whom they are alive. A symbol dies when the meaning of its referent has been fully apprehended by consciousness.

An expression that stands for a known thing remains a sign and is never a symbol. It is therefore quite impossible to create a living symbol, ie., one that is pregnant with meaning, from known associations. For what is thus produced never contains more than was put into it.

The source of a symbol is clearly and simply the unconscious. And this is no unwitting and unguided factor that produces symbols, for psyche is purposeful, goal-directed and symbols are its messages of guidance; hence his concern for dreams and their interpretation.
Architypal Process. David Ray Griffin