@noonessleep 5/ Rare indeed is the text (Merton's 'New Seeds of Contemplation'?) 'effortlessly' dissolving esoteric and exoteric tensions in a seamless, inclusive, unifying embrace or, rarer still, a life functionally transcending the prisons of secular and religious distinction and division.
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Image of an earlier text. 3/ By all means let us celebrate genius, but let’s not conflate the excessive drive towards higher states of religious or scientific consciousness, or exultation in such exclusionary brilliance, with what is practically required to wed humanity, as a whole, to justice and peace.
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Image of an earlier text: Indeed, why eschew a syncretic secular-religious concatenation, when a mature synthesis advances an evolutionary perspective transcending the agency of either camp, alone? What if a coherent planetary response is accessible to us only because it is inherently reconciliatory?
@CarlMcColman It always seemed to me an essential power of the Jesus Event arose in His capacity to simply annihilate the ontological and narrative distinction between inner and outer reality, in a fundamentally comprehensible, democratic, accessible form. Mysticism for the masses, manifest. x.com/covidyoga/status/1421528331262971906
