"You'd think that, if you educate people, they'd stop scapegoating. Yet all I see is that scapegoating becomes more sophisticated among intellectuals. Without a contemplative mind, education just gives you better reasons for your dualistic rationalizations." @RichardRohrOFM
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge True. Where materialist fundamentalism represents but the flip-side of precisely the same coin. What form then, a summons transcending the secular and religious symbiosis of an Extinction Tyranny imagining itself as the highest ground of necessity, probity and significance?
@RizomaSchool The dynamic, archetypal, mimetic, unconscious. A 'defense mechanism' confronting the pressing psycho-spiritual effects and requirements of epistemic, social transformation. A typically fantastic elaboration of rationalizations and denials characterizing the refusal of ego-death.
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Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge Nick_routledge A single idea, a fixed principle, a unifying theory or a blind belief becomes preferable to the growing tension of opposing forces and conflicting opinions. We flee precisely that awkward point of tension where the transformational alchemy of Awakening occurs. 2/