Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@RizomaSchool Bly spoke of, "healing the wound of abstractions". Humanity's root ailment perhaps. “It is an apocalypse of mind and eye we need,” asserts John Moriarty, “an apocalypse that opens the veils of mind and eye, not an apocalypse that pulls down the stars, that obliterates the sea.”

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 22 Nov 2022

@brad_compton @TornadoNate I wonder if perhaps the greatest shock of all, facing moderns, is that personal and planetary salvation, or whatever we call it, simply can't be lived vicariously. Ultimately, it transpires, we can't outsource Real life. The work ahead, for each of us, is unavoidably hands-on.

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Sophiologist_ Indeed. The root challenge of our era, a form of ontological autism as T. Berry names it, powerfully defined by a Magisterium of consciousness unhinged from the Real, yet imagining itself as the holiest, highest ground of perception, activity, necessity, probity and significance.Quoted by@Sophiologist_ Indeed. The root challenge of our era, a form of ontological autism as T. Berry names it, powerfully defined by a Magisterium of consciousness unhinged from the Real, yet imagining itself as the holiest, highest ground of perception, activity, necessity, probity and significance.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @Owen_Barfield [Rumi] would say, though, that poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it." - Coleman BarksQuoted by@Owen_Barfield [Rumi] would say, though, that poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it." - Coleman Barks