{"id":7158,"date":"2015-09-26T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T17:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=7158"},"modified":"2015-09-26T13:16:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T17:16:15","slug":"the-cloud-of-unknowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/the-cloud-of-unknowing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cloud of Unknowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7159\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7159\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150907-trio-DTM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7159\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150907-trio-DTM.jpg\" alt=\"these band members gave the band name as &quot;The Cloud of Unknowing&quot;\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150907-trio-DTM.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150907-trio-DTM-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/150907-trio-DTM-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sacred-texts.com\/chr\/cou\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Cloud of Unknowing<\/a> counsels a young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellection (faculty of the human mind), but through intense contemplation, motivated by love, and stripped of all thought. This is brought about by putting all thoughts and desires under a &#8220;cloud of forgetting&#8221;, and thereby piercing God&#8217;s cloud of unknowing with a &#8220;dart of longing love&#8221; from the heart. This form of contemplation is not directed by the intellect, but involves spiritual union with God through the heart:&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[32,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charlottesville","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7162,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7158\/revisions\/7162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}