I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every man and that this pattern in the individual has at its disposal the greatest transforming energies of which life is capable. Find this pattern in your own individual self and life is transformed. C.G. Jung _____________________________________________________________   (40) Resurrection of the Heart   This blog has been writing itself for the last forty days. I did not know what I would write from one day to the next, yet somehow the ideas and the words found themselves.  This will be the last entry. On the anniversary of my heart attack last November, I asked my brother and my sister-in-law to go out to dinner with me in celebration. My sister-in-law adamantly insisted that she would not go to dinner to celebrate a heart attack. So, instead, our dinner was deemed a celebration of what we called “The Resurrection of the Heart.” By some strange paradox, the wounding of my heart has opened me up to the World. When I began the first blog, I had no idea where it would lead. I knew only that I wanted to work slowly and reflectively through the drawings I had done after the heart attack. I drew these images as a means of emotional expression and relief. I had no idea, at the time, that they were also illustrating an ancient underlying alchemical process of transformation. I have been amazed by the journey. Before the heart attack, before these drawings, I was skeptical about people’s experiences of God; I believed that the World was limited to what we could observe and measure and describe in scientific terms. Now, I know that there is some mysterious, non-rational presence in the Universe that influences us from a dimension beyond our normal, everyday experience -– a dimension that we cannot perceive directly. Call it what you wish: it is the Twilight Zone, the Spirit World, the Collective Unconscious, the Tao, the Un-Nameable.   March 25, 2007