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The Wounded Healer by Henri J.M. Nouwen6/20/2023 Drugs as well as different concentration practices and withdrawal into the self often do more harm than good. We hardly need emphasize how dangerous the experimentation with the interior life can be. John of the Cross was that they lacked a spiritual guide to lead them along the right paths and enable them to distinguish between creative and destructive spirits. The greatest complaint of the Spanish mystics St. And just as the God outside could be experienced not only as a loving father but also as a horrible demon, the God within can be not only the source of a new creative life but also the cause of a chaotic confusion. Since the God 'out there' or 'up there' is more or less dissolved in the many secular structures, the God within asks attention as never before. “The inward man is faced with a new and often dramatic task: He must come to terms with the inner tremendum.
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