@jamespoulos Girard, like a thief in the night: "What might happen to our world if the precarious order of false transcendence imposed by the scapegoat mechanism ceases to function?" Rohr: “The True Sacred, which is synonymous with the Reign of God, unmasks and relativizes the false sacred."
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Excerpt from tweet thread: Here’s William James: “...there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness...” “...No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. How to regard them is the question...At any rate, they forbid our premature closing of accounts with reality." Our prophets, of course, universally anticipate just such a bifurcation point at the planetary level - noospheric consciousness coalescing in a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history. Ultimately, Abraham Joshua Heschel notes, “Mystery is surpassed by meaning.”
@AimeTim 1/ Essentially eschatological, his later work. On one hand, he identifies our crazed, self-justifying lurch into total cataclysm: on the other, echoing Holderlin, "Danger itself invites the rescuing power", transcendent intervention as humanity's only realistic hope of survival.
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Three tweet excerpt from tweet thread. The ‘sacred violence’ at the heart of all “the kingdoms of this world” is no longer distinguishable from the counter-violence it opposes. The reciprocities of violence and counter-violence threaten to spin completely out of control. 6/ "People all over the world are employing intellectual, moral, and rhetorical ingenuity in an effort to endow the violence they favor with culture-founding authority, and all over the world they are failing” - Gil Bailie 7/ @ nick_routledge As such, “The idea of ‘limitless’ violence, suddenly looms up before us,” notes Girard. “For the first time,” he says, humanity faces “a perfectly straightforward and even scientifically calculable choice between total destruction and the total renunciation of violence.” 8/