@Plough "The weakness of many systems of moral philosophy is in their isolationism...We cannot deal with morality unless we deal with all of man, the nature of existence, of doing, and meaning."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Heschel in first post Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I think / Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395781188904620032 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon I think we can go further. The distinctive contribution of the prophet lies not in their Word or level of realization as in their command of actualization. Heschel: "A prophet is a mystic in _action_. The role of a prophet is to _interfere_ with injustice."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Heschel in first post Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I think / Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787272868405250 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon ...Where teachers may proffer a Zen Slap, the prophet offers up a metaphysical spanking. Where the Messiah spoke of a depth-kingdom spread out among us to which we are blind, he was speaking not only to those who sleep but to those who sit, awake, on the ontological sidelines...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Heschel in first post Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I think / Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787598761582595 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon Prophetic vision is not contemplative realization out for an afternoon stroll. It derives from a capacity to access a dimension of existence accessible only through the dynamism of actualization. Contrariwise, quietistic mysticism remains at a distance from an integral ontology..
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Heschel in first post Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I think / Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787763434201088 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon ...accessible only through an active, co-evolutionary engagement with the Other. The emphasis here is ‘active’ and ‘co-evolutionary’. In this light, what declares a prophet is neither recognition by others, nor a claim; rather, ontology itself...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Heschel in first post Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: I think / Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395788203500523526 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon In the co-evolutionary flow of the prophet’s life, an entire realm of existence accompanied by a seismic shift in meaning, significance and potentiality, otherwise hidden, becomes manifest. The peaceable kingdom is but integral reality, actualized.
Open original document@TheKingCenter Wholeness, yes. We are individually whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. The transcendent kingdom, finally, an Earthly social reality.