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Meaning and Imagination: NDErs as Hobbits

November 17, 2012 By Nan Bush 11 Comments

You may remember (dimly by now), that in this series about religion and near-death experience I have been prowling through layers of human interpretation, in search of whatever may amount to bedrock understandings.

A few days back, something came along that stopped me in my prowling tracks like a bird dog on point. I’ll give you some context so you can understand the impact.

Back two posts, I had suggested that descriptive systems—theologies, ideologies, disciplines, paradigms—provide us with cognitive grab bars: ways of ordering information to give a sense of stability in a deeply mysterious universe. The grab bars say, here, this is the way this place works; hold on to these to keep your balance so you do not fall into a chaos of disordered observations. 
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Tagged With: Devin Brown, Greg Garrett, interpretation, James F. McGrath, JRR Tolkien, meaning, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings

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