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HOW TO TALK TODAY
OF THAT
VOCATIVE,
EVOCATIVE,
PROVOCATIVE FORCE
HIDING UNDER THE SHADOW
OF THE HUMAN METAPHOR,
GOD
CONTEXT
KIN[G]DOM OF GOD or
‘COMPANIONSHIP IN EMPOWERMENT’
in its ARAMAIC provenance
IN TRANSLATION AS
“A PEOPLES POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF TRUSTEESHIP
SET IN
ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
THEOLOGY
IS THE STUDY OF COMMON SENSE
HUMBLY DETERMINED
BY A MIXED COMMUNITY
WHEN THE WHOLE AND THE PARTS OF
REALITY
ARE EXPLORED FLOWING BETWEEN
AND REFLECTING EACH OTHER.
LOVE GOD/NEIGHBOUR
COULD THAT 3 LETTER WORD BE NO LESS THAN …..
THE MYSTERIOUS TRUTH WITHOUT WHICH THE
EARTH PERISHES
BRINGING GOD DOWN TO EARTH ‘INCARNATION’
OR
‘INSCENDENCE’
[coined by Thomas Berry]
as an invitation to move into the immensity of the natural world in all its beauty
and terror, to feel and embrace the livingness of matter itself, to awaken and KNOW
that we are at home on the Earth, that we are the universe reflecting on itself.
Because our natural generic inheritance is a deep bonding with all the living and
non-living components of the universe we can restore our ‘emotional connection with
the processes of life embedded in the emergence of the Cosmos itself’.
Knowing we are born of the creativity of stars, galaxies, and the great flaring forth,
guides us towards evolutionary transformation .
I'M OF THE VIEW THAT ALL OUR COMMONLY "ACCEPTED"
MORALITY HAS ITS FOUNDATIONS IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN &
ISLAMIC FAITHS AND THAT THOSE WHO FOLLOW THESE FAITHS HAVE
A MORAL DUTY TO SPEAK UP AND OUT FOR THEM AS FEARLESSLY AS
THE EARLY EVANGELISTS WHO SPREAD THE ETERNAL TRUTHS AROUND
MOST OF THE WORLD.
STRANGELY, I BELIEVE EVEN THE MOST ARDENT ATHEIST WILL
BE ATTRACTED TO THE MESSAGE MOST PROBABLY BECAUSE IT'S
DIFFERENT FROM THE MYSTICAL/MYSTERIOUS ONE THAT THEY'VE
BEEN USED TO HEARING (ALONG WITH A STRONG DOSE OF FIRE AND
BRIMSTONE) WHICH TURNED THEM AWAY IN THE FIRST PLACE.
SHYING AWAY FROM THE CENTRAL "SPIRITUAL" MESSAGE OF
THE LORD'S JUSTICE ON EARTH WILL FAIL TO INSPIRE AND EXCITE
PEOPLE INTO MORE DEMONSTRATIVE ACTION.
Carlo Nero
CAN WE LEARN FROM NATURE
HOW TO BRING AND KEEP OURSELVES
TOGETHER IN A WAY THAT NO OTHER WAY OF
THINKING/PERCEIVING DOES OR CAN?
‘In an emotional connection with the processes
of life embedded in the emergence of the
Cosmos itself’.
[BOOK OF JOB 38:4]
DOES IT HELP TO GIVE
PERSONAL SENSITIVITY TO THIS
BY USING
THE ‘GOD’ CONCEPT?
GOD CHALLENGES JOB Ch.38
A glorious myth on humility and
perspective:
…3 "Now gird up your loins like a man, And
I will ask you, and you instruct Me! 4
"Where were you when I laid the
foundation of the earth? Tell Me, if you
have understanding, 5 Who set its
measurements? Since you know. Or who
stretched the line on it?
Yes, well, with some poetic licence, the voice of God here could readily be
understood as the voice of Nature questioning the impudence of human
abstract rationality, which assumes to know definitively what cannot be known
definitively.
The impudence of human abstract rationality is, however, prone not to listen to
the voice of God/Nature, and instead seeks to satisfy itself in a quest for
abstract power over other that ends in cancerous monotonous monopoly.
I prepared a couple of tweets earlier today that relate:If human purpose is to live, love and be loved, then open-heartedness makes sense.
https://www.bestthinking.com/articles/society_and_humanities/philosophy/openheartedness …
If human purpose is to succeed by subduing opposition, then behaving like Daleks
makes sense. https://www.bestthinking.com/articles/lifestyle/living-with-oppositemindedness-the-emergence-of-a-natural-inclusional-guide-to-self-sustenance …
The predisposition of abstract rationality to think and behave like Daleks is
unfortunately all-too-evident in our modern culture of abstract rationalism.
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THE UNION OF ALL OPPOSITES
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[trinity]
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ENDLESS ENERGY
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[eternity]
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LIFE FORCE
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[spirit]
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PRIOR COMMUNION,
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[natural inclusion]
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[of
gift
and
trusteeship]
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AMODELLING OF NATURAL BEHAVIOURR
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[in incarnation]
GOD IS
‘THE PATTERN OF PERCEPTION’
SENSITISED BY A HUMAN TERM
TO ENRICH OUR HUMILITY
BEFORE BOTH THE REVEALING
AND THE MYSTERIES
OF AGELESS EXISTENCE
From within my consciousness rises a loving Presence, a radiant Light,
a divine Voice that illuminates me and shows me the Way to return to It.
’INCARNATION’ THAT WE MAY ALL BE
‘IN CHRIST’
GOD APPEARS AND GOD IS LIGHT
TO THOSE POOR SOULS WHO DWELL IN
NIGHT,
BUT DOES A HUMAN FORM DISPLAY
TO THOSE WHO DWELL IN REALMS OF
DAY.
William Blake.
NATURAL INCLUSION
'Abiding Presence' from which evolution
proceeds is what Alan Rayner has named
'Natural Inclusion.'
I understand that NI is the 'Living Logos of
the Universe.'
NI is that presence from which and within
which evolution proceeds.
INCARNATION
Christianity is an earthy, fleshy, realistic, not overly
spiritualised way of understanding God and humanity.
The emerging language of faith is one which takes
humanity seriously to the extent that the attributes
of God are available in humans.
Thus to be ‘in Christ’ is an expression of following
the example of Jesus in seeking the equivalent in
contemporary terms the concept of the
KIN[G]DOM OF GOD.
We dare to think of this as
A PEOPLES POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRUSTEESHIP
SET ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION.
The problem with ‘abstract rationality’ (and logical
positivism) not so much as ‘a falling away from God’,
but rather as ‘a dissociation from natural
neighbourhood’, obscuring the truth of our natural
way of being and becoming distinctive human beings
and communities.
I have no personal difficulty with regarding ‘God’ as
‘my/our natural neighbourhood’ and all within this
neighbourhood as my/our neighbours, both near and
distant.
Abstract judgementalism is correspondingly a
product of dissociating individual and/or group
identity from the flux of our natural neighbourhood in
‘place-time’.
A SACRAMENTAL ECOLOGY FOR THE ANTHROPOCENE
"We have looked first at man with his vanities and greed
and his problems of a day or a year; and then only, and
from this biased point of view, we have looked outward at
the earth he has inhabited so briefly and at the universe in
which our earth is so minute a part. Yet these are the great
realities, and against them we see our human problems in
a different perspective. Perhaps if we reversed the
telescope and looked at man down these long vistas, we
should find less time and inclination to plan for our own
destruction." Rachel Carson, acceptance speech of the National
Book Award for Nonfiction, 1952
"We
stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert
Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long
been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we
progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of
the road—the one "less traveled by"—offers our last, our only chance to
reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth." Rachel
Carson, Silent Spring, 1962
"KINDNESS IS WATER, RELIGION IS LIKE TEA. YOU
CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT TEA, YOU CAN’T SURVIVE
WITHOUT WATER."
—Pico Iyer
True is you are thinking of ‘religion’ in its divisive and
institutionalised forms.
BUT –
Not true if you use ‘religion’ in the sense of its
provenance – the binding together of all law and all
ligaments – that is – a pattern of inclusive perception
SHARED HIDDEN ROOTS OF SCIENCE, RELIGION
AND PROGRESSIVE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Where does Science come from? What is the source of
Religion? And what are the deep origins of progressive
politics and notions of equality, social justice, human
dignity, inalienable rights and the very idea of progress
itself? There is a common source to all of these cultural
& historical currents. It is surprising because the truth
about the origins of Science, Religion and Progressive
Politics has often been suppressed, made heresy or
banned; and so have been largely forgotten. It has
variously be called the 'Prisca Theologia' (original
theology), the Esoteric or Hidden Religion and also the
Perennial Wisdom.
IDENTITY ITSELF
The essential aims of life are present in every person. In
everyone there is some longing for humanity's rightful dignity,
for moral integrity, for free expression of being and a sense of
transcendence over the world of existence.
Yet at the same time, each person is capable, to a lesser or
greater degree, of coming to terms with "living within the lie".
Each person succumbs to a profane trivialisation of his or her
inherent humanity, and to utilitarianism. In every one there is
some willingness to merge with the anonymous crowd and to
flow comfortably along with it down the river of pseudo-life.
This is much more than a simple conflict between two
identities. It is something far worse: it is a challenge to the"
very notion of identity itself."
VACLAV HAVEL
Our mind yearns to find concrete knowledge of its
intuitions and insights but also continually runs against
the walls its own limitations. When we reach what we
cannot know we have to learn the art of unknowing, to
find real beyond thoughts and imagination; if not, we
drift into fantasy, the wrong use of imagination.
What factor drives predictions? It's the Internet of
Things. Much like the explosion of the internet,
predicting what the era of the Internet of Things will
bring is not for the faint-hearted. With virtually
anything being able to connect to anything else the
possibilities are, quite literally, endless.
UNA COMMENT – 6-6-15
FAITH COULD BE SEEN AS AN OBSTACLE TO
RECONCILIATION;
YET, AS A POWERFUL FORCE IN SO MANY LIVES,
AND RECOGNISED BY THE UN AS SUCH,
IT MUST BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT;
AS ALSO AS A REFERENCE TO INTEGRITY
AND COHESION IN NATURAL LAW.
CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRITY
NOT INITIALLY AS A MORAL THRUST,
BUT AS OF THE NATURE OF ALL EXISTENCE
THE POETRY OF NATURAL INCLUSION
WHERE WORD SIGNIFIES UNIQUE IDENTITY,
WORDS TOGETHER SIGNIFY SOCIAL COHERENCE
AND EACH IN THE OTHER
SUSPENDED DYNAMICALLY IN COMMON SPACE
SIGNIFY NEVER-ENDING CREATIVITY,
THE TRUTH OF EVOLUTIONARY VITALITY
IN NATURAL COMMUNION
AR 8-6-15
THE SKY AND THE LIVING PLANET !
It is hard to feel affection for something as totally impersonal as the
atmosphere, and yet there it is, as much a part and product of life as
wine or bread.
Taken all in all, the sky is a miraculous achievement. It works, and for
what it is designed to accomplish it is as infallible as anything in nature.
I doubt whether any of us could think of a way to improve on it, beyond
maybe shifting a local cloud from here to there on occasion.
The word "chance" does not serve to account well for structures of such
magnificence. There may have been elements of luck in the emergence
of chloroplasts, but once these things were on the scene, the evolution
of the sky became absolutely ordained. Chance suggests alternatives,
other possibilities, different solutions.
This may be true for gills and swim-bladders and forebrains, matters of
detail, but not for the sky. There was simply no other way to go.
From The Lives of a Cell – Lewis Thomas, 1974 - see Job 38
GOD IS WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE
AND
THEREFORE OF OUR LIVES
In the words of the
13th century St Bonaventure:
GOD IS WITHIN …BUT NOT ENCLOSED.
OUTSIDE ….BUT NOT EXCLUDED.
ABOVE …. BUT NOT ALOOF.
BELOW ….. BUT NOT DEBASED
GOD IS ……ONE AND ALL INCLUSIVE.
GOD IS …..ALL IN ALL.
Refrain:
Eternal God - renew us in your spirit
APPLYING THE IMPLICATIONS
OF
DIARMUID O’MURCHU’S PENETRATING STUDIES IN
’QUANTUM THEOLOGY’ AND
ANN PRIMAVESIE'S ’EXPLORING EARTHINESS’,
We have to learn
- to take the anthropomorphic bias out of our
understanding of God and Incarnation;
- to blend science and dynamic faith into a seamless
reaching after truth.