Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM Guides from all major, planetary, esoteric currents tell me the psyche technes they teach will 'never fill stadiums'. Frankly, the exclusionary brilliance they admit to has never not landed as problematically constrained in terms of the democratic requirements of world salvation.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 11 Aug 2022

@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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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. 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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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?
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Quoted by@jbralston @uoedivinity @RimSarah @josh_good_ 1/Wonderful, thank you. I wonder if the ultimacy of an inclusive eschatology (Adorno's, "Knowledge has no light but that shed on the world by redemption") holds an essential, evolutionary key to bridging the reconciliatory limits still defining both esoteric and exoteric promise.