Posted on 06/06/2008 1:13:33 AM PDT by endthematrix
Embracing Spirituality
Q: “After you had a heart attack and a nervous breakdown at age 38, on the set of Apocalypse Now, you went to India and found spirituality. Is that when you embraced Catholicism?”
A: “I did, yeah. I was raised Catholic, but it was a religion, not a way of life. [After the heart attack] I came back to a faith more than a church. I came back with joy and with freedom and thanksgiving rather than with fear or trembling or worrying about eternity. I decided that what I really loved the most about the faith was the spirituality that this church possessed.”
Q: “A lot of people would love to have the faith that you have, but they don’t have that real dramatic crisis that leads you to say, ‘Wait a minute—I’m really off the track here. I’m leading a kind of empty existence.’”
A: “If you have an awareness that your life is not full and that you are not yourself, that is the beginning, I think, of the journey toward spirituality. I don’t have a clue what God is; I really don’t. I would never, ever try and tell anyone what to look for. The only thing I would say is: the journey to spirituality is the journey to your own humanity. The more human you are, I think, the more godlike you are. And that is the genius of God.”
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Loving His Family
Q: “You were young when your mother died.”
A: “I was almost 11, yes. I adored her. She was outrageous, would sing at the drop of a hat, have a drink at the drop of a hat. Yeah, one of the great characters.”
Q: “Have you lost many siblings?”
A: “Almost half now. There are six of us left. My mother actually had 12 pregnancies, but ten survived. So I was the seventh son of nine boys and one girl.”
Q: “So you had only one sister?”
A: “One sister, yeah. She’s a teacher, just retired. She lives in Madrid, Spain. I adore her. She’s so outrageous. She’s kind of rotund, you know, a little lady, and so funny and bright and loving and just hilarious. Everybody just falls in love with her. Her name is Carmen. We call her Charmin’ Carmen. She’s a delight.”
Q: “So you think you’ll see those people in the afterlife?”
A: “Oh, I’m not concerned about that. I’ll see them in this life. I don’t think we go to heaven. I think we become heaven, and I think that’s the difference.”
Q: “And what does that mean?”
A: “It means that we create heaven right here, right now. We project it. I don’t have to wait until I’m dead.”
Ping for an attempt to understanding this guy.
How catholic is Mr. Sheen? Hmmmm
Been involved with Code Pink and Planned Parenthood rallies since the 90’s, so let’s nix the pro-life teaching. Oh wait, he’s also marched for gay rights, so let’s nix the Leviticus 20:13 teachings about homosexuality hmmmm.
yes, Mr’ Celebrity you are indeed a self-described “catholic”..in your own demented leftist brain.
He has “crazy eyes”.
That’s all I need to know.
And, FWIW, I always thought *he* should’ve played Randall Flagg [The Walkin’ Dude] in The Stand.
There was never a more perfect actor for that role.
He's seemed to have strayed a bit from his "Clowns of Freedom" days from the series "Insight".
Say what?....
So Jesus ascended into where?
And Mary was Assumed where?
He needs to go back and read his Catechism.
Note to Mr. Sheen,
Heaven is NOT about you, it is about God, who wants you to join Him there if you learn to believe in Him.
He actually makes a few partly-correct points, although weirdly.
For example, our eternal life with Christ begins with our Baptism, not with our death. The Kingdom of God is underway now. St. Paul said, “Your life is hidden with God in Christ,” in the present tense. We are expected to become Christlike - that is, Godlike - in our earthly life.
What a loon.
I’d like to see Marty project heaven if you took away his: A. Money
B. Fame
C. Access to the media
Maybe make him really homeless and free of temporal entanglements instead of playing the role for charity in front of cameras. How ‘bout a nice trash can home in south LA - permanently?
Just a guess, but I’ll betcha Marty would soon project another kind of supernatural reality...
He’s in the Father Pfleiger wing of the Catholic Church with the some of the communists that preach in Central and South America
Another Dumb A$$ rewrites the Bible.
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