ABSTRACT
Being Humbled: The experience of being humbled presupposes the constitution of something like an “emotional level,” akin to what Merleau-Ponty has called the constitution of a “spatial level.” Affliction is experienced in terms of a presence that should be there, but is not. It is therefore important to note that we cannot simultaneously experience affliction and experience affliction as the process of redemption. It is only after the fact, that is, from the perspective of redemption, and for whom on the other side of the experience, that it may constitute the removal of obstacles, like the attachment to myself in pride, etc. Affliction is ultimately a religious experience. Only to the extent that there is an experience of some other as a center of loving, could there be an experience of affliction.
