Chuck Swindoll Jr. is the son of the famous pastor with the same name. For more information about Chuck, see the below post from my other substack:
For some more grail allusions, see post below:
In the entry clip, Chuck says:
“Very important that you see everything in this story as a metaphor. Everything. Everything that’s in the story is metaphoric. It has a deeper sense. It has a deeper intention past the surface drama that plays out in the story.
“So the surface drama is great, keeps your attention, and it’s interesting. But what is really going to ‘get you or grab you or transform you’ is the underlying gravitas or gravity below the play.
“So pay attention to the little details because it makes a big difference. And I’ve tried to open up some of that in the slides that I’ve created. That’s going to walk us through the story. OK, so you guys ready? Here we go.
“This is the Grail legend, Parzival’s Grail legend told by Dr. Campbell”.
The reason I wanted to highlight Chuck’s introductory words is to emphasize that the primary reason for supernatural things in so-called “holy” books is to keep your attention in an interesting way. While technically anything is possible in our simulated virtual reality universe, how often does the average person witness genuine “miracles”, such as the Bible says donkeys and snakes have talked to humans in the past?
For more about our simulated reality, see the Rizwan Virk post below:
As far as donkeys and snakes talking, such accounts remind me of childrens’ cartoons where donkeys and snakes might be talking. This keeps the child’s attention because, like Chuck said, “the surface drama is great, keeps your attention, and it’s interesting. But what is really going to ‘get you or grab you or transform you’ is the underlying gravitas or gravity below the play”.
Does the child learn truth from such a cartoon? Of course! The animal characters subtly point to real humans the child will encounter in life, parents, friends, strangers, neighbours, etc… The cartoonish “gravitas” drama helps the child process the complexities of relationships and life in a way that “keeps attention and is interesting,” but it’s obviously not meant to be taken literally.
Are the Bible and other ancient texts meant to be taken literally? My research & experience in life leads me to say that such texts are mostly literary history NOT literal history. Again, while technically ANY magical thing is possible in our simulation, what happens most of the time? How often have you personally seen fish and bread instantly fill baskets, blind eyes immediately able to see, beggars with NO limbs suddenly grow limbs and start running, etc……
I personally do the miracle of walking on water! Yes I do, and I can prove it! But I insist on honoring Jesus Christ, who was the first to perform this miracle.
So, I insist to do this miracle only on the Lord’s birthday, December 25, and I also insist it be done in Canada, my country of birth, and in one of the prairie provinces, since I was born in Saskatchewan and want to also honor my humble beginnings as a miracle worker from western Canada. Hmmmm…well, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Manitoba is fine, but I don’t like British Columbia so can’t do it in B.C. Yep, won’t walk on water there on Dec 25, but anywhere else inside the “designated honor area” that you want me to prove my miracle working abilities, I’ll step onto any lake and walk on water!
The subtleties of true miracles
Can we intuitively tap into some supernatural/paranormal possibilities and capabilities?
Sure. Take my own novel below, written decades ago, before the open congressional hearings on the UFO/UAP phenomenon, government admissions, whistle-blower testimony, etc… all in apparent setup for something similar that I describe in the opening chapter??? We shall have to wait and see……
My novel was written decades ago and has lots of supernatural stuff embedded so that “the surface drama is great, keeps your attention, and it’s interesting. But what is really going to ‘get you or grab you or transform you’ is the underlying gravitas or gravity below the play”.
At the time I wrote it, even I did NOT see the many layers that I was subconsciously embedding into the story. Now, I discern more of that and talk about it at the above link.
Also, I did NOT know about the Nag Hammadi when I wrote my fiction, nor did I know that the first century Gnostic Christians wrote some fiction of their own, as a way of encoding consciousness truth. There are layers of understanding that we can glean from such things, as my post below attempts to uncover.
My main point with this post is to remind my readers that it takes time, maturity, and constant growth, to eventually be able to discern the “underlying gravitas or gravity below the play”, as Dr. Campbell does very well in the entry video, when he explains Parzival’s Grail legend, a microcosm of the lives of all of us.
I say there is MUCH truth that we can learn from parables, metaphors, allegories, symbolism, archetypes, etc……
For practice, what do my readers think that I’m saying with the Star Trek clip below about finding our own version of pleasant way in life?
