Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Image and Pilgrimage Chapter 5 thoughts on intellectual visions vs apparitions

11/29/2016
Intellectual visions, like feeling God through physical items or locations is much more prominent for the everyday person compared to apparitions and seeing God through spirit form. In my life, I feel God around me when I am in certain places or in certain situations, but not have come in contact with actual spirits. I wonder if spirits were more easily accessible in the medieval times compared to modern society, because our culture and way of life has been so warped over time. We do not give ourselves enough time to meditate in our thoughts and prayer every day because of the constant distractions of every day life. Where in medieval times I feel as if it might have been more of a norm to put prayer and practice at the top of one's priority list which made their connections to apparitions more often. Maybe if we all made prayer and alone time without technology or distractions more seriously, our connection to apparitions would be more prominent than what the average person experiences today.

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