Alienation

One of the effects of the fall is a very real sense of alienation.  We are separated from God and from each other by gulfs that only grace can bridge.  I find many modern descriptions of the phenomenon of alienation to be quite suggestive.  Here is one from a Jungian analyst:

“A sense of dividedness or separation seems to have been basic to the human condition, probably since coming to consciousness, and the vocational ‘call’ to wholeness arises in moments of special conflict and crisis.  Every human heart longs for the overcoming of the sense of alientation….some sense of being connected to a larger reality is basic to healing that separation and finding meaning in life.”

  

Jean and Wallace Clift

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