RantWoman got up and chowed down her customary bowl of oatmeal, lately blessed with very cinnamon-flavored flax oil donated by a denizen of the Barclay book group. The flax oil is SO cinnamony that it overpowers the flavors of both nutritional yeast and the flax oil which makes for very upscale oatmeal, possibly more upscale than Quakerism's origins as a revolt of the masses might suggest.
Then off RantWoman bounced for pre-Meeting for worship bus ride to Meeting for Worship. RantWoman has previously written though not everything she might of Metro as zone of ministry; today though RantWoman was also musing about about the famous Stephen Prothero on Stephen Colbert moment.
"Quakerism is the best religion...Meeting for worship is... like riding the city bus..."
RantWoman is still seasoning some posts related to themes from a couple months ago. Elderly Friend posed the question "the world really needs what Quakers have. How come they are not beating down our door." Today, in that vein, RantWoman's inner crowd control geek was musing: Would our Meetinghouse be overrun by throngs of bus-riding masses so taken by Metro as mystical experience and such devout acolytes of Stephen colbert that they would know just where to turn for more mysticism without Metro?
http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/379250/march-29-2011/stephen-s-next-religion---stephen-prothero?xrs=share_fb
In a word, nope.
Sorry, Stephen, no one but RantWoman even brought it up and Friends in RantWoman's meeting are already a little too used to rantWoman waxing rhapsodic about Metro.
Adult Education outlined four routes from outward to inward spiritual life based on John Youngblood: Worship, Righteousness, Activism, and Study and then quickly added a fifth, mysticism based on starting from the spiritual center and seeing where one is led. When RantWoman is feeling like a better student, maybe she can pen an item about how all of these are done aboard the bus.
Meanwhile, today's discussion featured extensive wanderings among mystical traditions of various eras in the history of Christianity, the desert fathers early monastics, St. Francis, St. Teresa, St John of the Cross.
Along the way we also visited developmental neurology, the collective unconscious, and several other conceptual destinations, but no Stephen colbert and no city bus, at least until RantWoman brought them up. On the other hand, apparently, it is a pretty revolutionary act for the laboring masses to decide God needs to be the center of their lives and then to order their life and work to make that so.
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