I think (not sure) that many/most of the friends who come by here to read and comment are either Catholic or Evangelical Christians.
The Christian church is in general very cautious — suspicious even — of spiritual pathways other than our own. I have many, many times heard the perspectives of New Agers, or even simply Christian feminists, denounced as Satanic.
So, in case you share that view (and you might), I want to make very clear that this video is not from a churchman. You might want to say he's not a Christian, but I have been following his output for years and I know he speaks with great reverence and respect of the Lord Jesus, and invites the Christlight and the presence of Christ into his spiritual practice. It's just that he follows a path that I think we'd recognise as New Age rather than orthodoxly Christian.
But I wanted to share it with you, following a comment Krista left on a post a couple of days ago, because in this video I think he absolutely puts his finger on a recognisable dynamic, and offers a very constructive way forward in responding to it.
You know the passage in Ephesians 6 about putting on the whole armour of God? Here's part of it, verses 10-12 (RSV):
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Tim Whild, the teacher in the video I want to share with you, takes the view (I don't think I'm misrepresenting him) that supernatural forces influence and direct what we see in the human sphere, both positively and negatively, the angels who advise and defend us, and the dark forces that act to our detriment. God and the devil, to put it in the simplest and baldest terms.
Like St Paul, Tim identifies "powers ... world rulers of this present darkness", and Tim always calls them, very pleasingly, "the powers that were". I like that.
In this video — I'm telling you before you commit to watching it, in case you're feeling cautious — he says the powers that were are now defeated: and I think we who believe in Christ's victory on the cross can all say "Amen" to that.
But those powers, to borrow a phrase our Granddad often used, may be dead, but they won't lie down. Their time is ending, or even ended, as Tim says in the video, but they are still striving mightily to hold on to power.
As we are often urged by other wisdom teachers I listen to, in these days when the spiritual battle is intensifying, it's important always to bear in mind the world we want to see, when we make our choices. It's important to choose kindness, integrity, fairness and responsibility.
So Tim is saying that the powers that were are now running short of food/fuel for their activities, because their time is ending. Desperate to hold on to power, they are continually offering us scenarios to provoke anger and outrage, because that is what they feed on. When we allow ourselves to be drawn into the war, get sucked into the drama, take sides and shout and vilify one another, the anger and outrage we produce is the food the powers that were are living on. And Tim calls this food/fuel "Loosh".
He cautions us not to allow ourselves to be made into Loosh when the newest scandal or injustice is dangled under our noses.
I suppose it's just a different way of saying that we must not give in to temptation, but I found it imaginative and profound and wise and helpful. Now, when I see whatever the new source of outrage is on the news platforms, I know to take note, to listen carefully, to discern as best I can what's happening — but to take the precaution of murmuring to myself, "Loosh", and not allow myself to fall for the trap or allow myself to be filled with anger and outrage and thus feed the powers that were.
So here we are — Tim Whild — I hope you enjoy his teaching here as much as I have:
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