Why Metanoia Journey ?
In most English Bible translations of Matthew 3:2 it reads, “Repent, for the realm of heaven is at hand.” In the original Greek text of that scripture, the word which was translated to the English word “repent” is metanoia, which means “beyond the mind.”
What if John the Baptist was inviting us to change our minds — not just in a casual intellectual sense, but in a completely transcendent way — allowing us to see ourselves, our neighbors, and our world with radically new eyes, without this idea of our brokenness, our unworthiness, our wickedness? John the Baptist was setting the stage for Jesus of Nazareth, the archetypal human for all people, so Jesus could show us how to perceive ourselves, our neighbors, our world, and our shared Life Source with profoundly new understanding, inviting us to a fuller life now.
The other part of the passage reads, “for the realm of heaven is at hand.” So right now, in this present moment, and not in some possible future or destination when our time on earth is over, we are invited to the possibility of living in peace, joy, and harmony within ourselves and with others, and to experience wholeness, equality, and inter-connectedness with all creation. The realm of heaven offers us the freedom to live authentically as we truly are … right now.
The word Journey in our name describes the life-long path we travel to discover and embody these truths about ourselves. Some days we a take a step forward, others a step back, never fully arriving, but always evolving.
Would you like to join us?