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Elijah Meditation (Part 3): The Earthquake
In this meditation, I return to the story of Elijah in the First Book of Kings and to the archetypal map of meditation practice we find in his experience of the cave.
In previous meditations, we considered the storm as an image of the thoughts, sensations and emotions that can distract us when we seek stillness, and the fire as an image of our desire for reality to be different from what it is. Today we encounter Elijah’s third trial: the earthquake.
The earthquake represents those periods of life when what once seemed secure begins to shake. A relationship may end, a job may be lost, an…
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