Kooolfriend
Thanks. That lifts me up. I was a Leftfield Radical Intellectual in the early 1980s and after I became disillusioned with Anarchy, Nihilism and Worldwide Proletarian Revolution I drifted back into a Church that I had left with Thomas Cranmer and the 1662 Common Book of Prayer, to find John Wimber had come and gone and that they had moved the Moon and changed all the stars around - everything was a post Vineyard paradigm - I remember feeling stop me when I get past Mars and remind me to get off this bus.
I had always been prophetic, mystical, visionary and surreal - although I tended to wrap it up in visionary intensity and cognitive surrealism [French for Super-realism] - the radical fringe of radical critque.
I knew the call of the prophetic on my Life before I was born, although I did not have the categories, theology, devotional mentoring, any Conversation Partners to discuss the prophetic - so I was way out past Saturn.
It all kicked off with the Kansas City Prophets in 1988 and I was kicking around wondering if I should spaypaint Dialectical Materialism across the Church door and this former Vineyard Pastor, who was then a Church of England Vicar came whizzing up on spiritual rocket-powered roller skates and said - "You're Prophetic!" and said, "Yeah? Run that pass me again" and then I started to connect with my own ministry, destiny and purpose at a very deep level in my spirit - I had lived out of a state of radical critique and after that encounter - I started to descend in a maelstrom of mystics, madmen, Joseph Conrad whiteknuckled protagonists, the clash of steel on steel, wild eyed adventurers who claimed to have found Eden, Shangri La and Eldorado along the way - call it the Milky Way - because I was going crazy and I felt like I was leaving for the next Galaxy with the spectral red shift of an object moving away from sight at the speed of Light - there was an intense deprogramming process going on as the Holy Spirit was starting to kick some truth right through me - I just caught fire, I was walking around on fire - I kind of crashlanded on a trip into the prophetic - it is almost indescribable what it can do to your cognition - it rearranges you - I had no mentors, no books, no conversation partners apart from the Bible and the Holy Spirit - so I just developed virtually all of my formative stuff from my personal encounters between 1988 and 1998 - later, I realised there were others like Graham Cooke, Dutch Sheets, Juanita Bynum, Jim Goll, John Paul Jackson, Chuck Pierce, Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh - I started reading their stuff and picking up tapes, CDs, having utterly mad, wild and spontaneous encounters with really anointed men and women who would just lay hands on me and I would walk around for a few days afterwards just buzzing with this energy overload, until I was reformatted again by the Spirit and could work with the spiritual impartation I had received.
I believe that we are all called to live the prophetic life - and now, you have the Elijah List website, a deluge of books and materials on the subject - but when I started to write Cognitive Pneumatology and all the Heart Prayer stuff - I had never even heard of Patristics, Graham Cooke was still a future encounter and I was still descending into the Valley of Vision.
So hey, I am what Theologians call a Punk Pneumatologist - very alive and born kicking.
As Vicki (Merryheart) will testify, you are burning when you encounter and cross over into the propehtic, always burning - with a brilliant intensity.
- Not to mention the Bible.
