• Metanarratives is a personal blog dedicated to sharing my journey from high anxiety, Alcoholics Anonymous, divorce, parental alienation, and trauma memory (CPTSD) to healing and a new life. The posts will cover a wide range of topics I explored over ten years. Many posts were inspired by authors I encountered along the way who made a significant difference for me personally. And along the way, I discovered I was neurodivergent, which explained a lot of the challenges I had throughout my life. It’s been a challenging journey for me, but ultimately very rewarding.

    So, I am sharing these posts with the public to possibly help someone else gain some understanding of their own lives. If this doesn’t resonate with you, please just exit the site.

    Charles

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Fellowship, a Forgotten Concept

The apostle John invited us to fellowship with the congregation. A call to unity with the body of Christ. He wants to share what they have seen and heard. 1 John 1:3

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A New Evangelism, Understanding the Post-Modern Mind

How to share the gospel with a post-modern society. Here lies the challenge we face. Postmoderns live in the left hemisphere of their brain. They live in an abstract reality that they’ve created for themselves. They have done this to make a space they can be comfortable in, where they feel no threat. Berdyaev and McGilchrist both speak of this phenomenon in great detail.

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Connecting the Dots

Even questions about who we are, what is our true self about? And why didn’t relationships work? Why were our parents so angry and controlling or sad and distant from their children? Many of us have been asking these questions since we can remember and haven’t gotten any answers.

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The Final Act on Ontology

God’s ontology? The call to holiness is meeting up our ontology with God’s ontology. I came across this idea recently and remembered it like it was yesterday.

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One Life at a Time

We generally speak on the phone once a week. We have been talking once a week for over twenty years. We usually met in a coffee shop on a Wednesday in Boise, Idaho. Same one, for twenty years. Then I moved, and he got divorced, and I was divorced and moved to Colorado, where I have settled in for the time being.

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Weekend With a Friend

Reflection on a weekend spent with an old friend that I hadn't seen for several years and the exercise in "creative dialogue" we were able to engage in with each other with reflections on a narrative created by Thomas Merton, one of the great mystics of our time.

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Knight of Faith

"The Knight of Faith is the only happy man, the heir to the finite while the knight of resignation is a stranger and an alien." Kierkegaard

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The Invasion

A spiritual invasion of the planet had its genesis in an earlier time. Take a look at the flood narrative/story/history. Archeology suggests the flood occurred about 5,000 BC. Read the account. It describes a time when humanity had lost its way. Humans at the time created a society (or it was created for them) that exhibited no moral compass.

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The Revelation

What began as the Sam Harris interview triggered a revelation that many of us have been aware of the truth but still had many doubts. That changed for me hearing this interview. It spoke to the fact that I have been on the right path to the truth most of my life. And the people doubting and criticizing me all my life we just wrong. It's how the lost operate.

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Ask, Seek, Knock

Choices that took a while to make were so difficult. One hopes choices that will alter your future for the best.

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Culturally Impacted

The human species has been compromised by the creators of the postmodern culture. And the Culture Creators are not giving up any time soon.

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Ontology?

Ontology was a term used by Thomas Merton to describe man’s nature and this blog is designed to explore our Ontology

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