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I am new at blogging. Been part of the audience before. But, never the author of some blog. So here goes!
My wife purchased me "Care of the Soul" in 1999. Ever since, I have read "Soul Mates," "The Soul's Religion," "The Reenchantment of Everyday Life" and this week I began reading his latest, "Writing in the Sand." There is another book I have but have not read it - "A Life at Work."
His work has been a great influence on my thinking. But, there are some gaps in my understanding of his work and so I was delighted to find Barque, a place I hope to share some of my views and learn from the many members that grace it's pages.
I am an accountant for a life insurance company in Canada with an interest in psychology, spirituality and religions. My interest stem back further than my interest in my career. In fact, my initial career choice was psychology, but one of teachers discouraged it. I have certainly read a lot of books on religions and have spoken to people about their religions, but I am no expert. I am, though, extremely interested.
At the moment, I have just finished the chapter on metanoia. When I completed it, I reflected on the multiple changes that I have had in my life. I have seen how my earlier life as a child, moving from one town to another, changed my thinking continuously. To give you a feel, we moved four times before I was seven years old. One of the lessons I learned was to appreciate people but I also learned not to get too attached to them either. Then I moved from a government primary school and moved to a Catholic Boarding Secondary School in which the Catholic religious life was ingrained in me.
The changes I had in the Boarding School were many. I liked the worship days, especially those of the patron saints of the religious order, the Salesians. In my second year of the school I befriended a guy that had some interests in satanic occult, my way of thinking was turned on its head.
After boarding school I was conscripted to National Services in the South African Defence Force. From a Catholic School where I was protected from the government schools indoctrination of apartheid to the Engineering Corp where I was one of three people that spoke English among 200 or so Afrikaans recruits. On top of it all, the military base's default religion Monday to Saturday was Protestant. On Sundays we were aloud to worship in our own religion. I saw many things in my two years service that kept challenging me.
After my military term I joined a bank and settled in the financial service industry. In a lot of ways I think that I wanted a place where I could find comfort from all the changes that my life had face to date. I took challenges very cautiously for awhile until I took a big step to emigrate to Canada. Since I have been in Canada I have studied three academic designations that were finance related. The last year I have been decompressing trying to break away from the stress that studing these financial courses did.
I am very happy now and hope that you guys can be patient with my blogging my thoughts on a subject that I have an acute knowledge of. Small amounts. But a whole lot of interest.
Lastly, I'd like to thank Thomas Moore for his influence and the Barque administrator for the forum s/he has created.
My wife purchased me "Care of the Soul" in 1999. Ever since, I have read "Soul Mates," "The Soul's Religion," "The Reenchantment of Everyday Life" and this week I began reading his latest, "Writing in the Sand." There is another book I have but have not read it - "A Life at Work."
His work has been a great influence on my thinking. But, there are some gaps in my understanding of his work and so I was delighted to find Barque, a place I hope to share some of my views and learn from the many members that grace it's pages.
I am an accountant for a life insurance company in Canada with an interest in psychology, spirituality and religions. My interest stem back further than my interest in my career. In fact, my initial career choice was psychology, but one of teachers discouraged it. I have certainly read a lot of books on religions and have spoken to people about their religions, but I am no expert. I am, though, extremely interested.
At the moment, I have just finished the chapter on metanoia. When I completed it, I reflected on the multiple changes that I have had in my life. I have seen how my earlier life as a child, moving from one town to another, changed my thinking continuously. To give you a feel, we moved four times before I was seven years old. One of the lessons I learned was to appreciate people but I also learned not to get too attached to them either. Then I moved from a government primary school and moved to a Catholic Boarding Secondary School in which the Catholic religious life was ingrained in me.
The changes I had in the Boarding School were many. I liked the worship days, especially those of the patron saints of the religious order, the Salesians. In my second year of the school I befriended a guy that had some interests in satanic occult, my way of thinking was turned on its head.
After boarding school I was conscripted to National Services in the South African Defence Force. From a Catholic School where I was protected from the government schools indoctrination of apartheid to the Engineering Corp where I was one of three people that spoke English among 200 or so Afrikaans recruits. On top of it all, the military base's default religion Monday to Saturday was Protestant. On Sundays we were aloud to worship in our own religion. I saw many things in my two years service that kept challenging me.
After my military term I joined a bank and settled in the financial service industry. In a lot of ways I think that I wanted a place where I could find comfort from all the changes that my life had face to date. I took challenges very cautiously for awhile until I took a big step to emigrate to Canada. Since I have been in Canada I have studied three academic designations that were finance related. The last year I have been decompressing trying to break away from the stress that studing these financial courses did.
I am very happy now and hope that you guys can be patient with my blogging my thoughts on a subject that I have an acute knowledge of. Small amounts. But a whole lot of interest.
Lastly, I'd like to thank Thomas Moore for his influence and the Barque administrator for the forum s/he has created.
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