Hermetic Homiletics

Stage 1: Intuitive-Projective Faith

Attributes:
~Ages 3–7
~Fantasy-filled, intuitive phase
~Can be powerfully and permanently influenced by stories and images, as well as the moods and actions of faith around them
~Uninhibited by logical thought, but rather fluid thought pattern

Gifts:
~Birth of imagination
~Ability to unify and grasp the experience-world in powerful images

Dangers:
~Potential to become “possessed” by images of terror and destructiveness
~Use of imagination to reinforce taboos as well as moral and doctrinal expectations.

Transition to Next Stage:
~Emergence of concrete operational thinking
~A growing concern to know how things are and to clarify for him- or herself the bases of distinctions between what is real and what only seems to be

Note: I won’t be using anything from this stage, but I wanted to post it for reference.

posted by irreverance @ 11:42 AM