Curious Christian

In forging a Christian meditation practice for this day and age I always find it helpful to explore how people from other spiritual traditions approach the subject. There will be things that I agree with, things that I disagree with, and things that I can accept with modifications – but it’s always a fruitful exercise. If nothing else it helps you to clarify your own approach – a useful focus for meditation in itself.

In reviewing NeoPagan approaches I recently came accross these comments by Bill Witt:

“For me, meditation becomes a way of ‘grounding’ myself, of reaching a place of peace and stability, where I can find how I fit into the universe.”

I have noted before that many NeoPagans speak of meditation in terms of ‘grounding’. Many NeoPagans like to contrast the Earth Goddess spirituality over and against Sky God spirituality and I gather the ‘grounding’ language stems from that, however I believe these metaphorical contrasts can be deceiving. From a Christian understanding God is creator of earth and sky, of moon and sun, so that Sky God spirituality falls just as short of what we are talking about as Earth Goddess spirituality.

Consequently, maybe we Christians should be wary in buying into semantic arguements over ‘grounding’ vs ‘ascending’ language.

As I consider the scriptures I  recall the extensive use of  ‘rock’  metaphors for the Ancient of Days. Maybe there is space from Christian meditators to speak of ‘grounding’ in the Rock of Ages.