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@AimeTim 2/ Where the co-evolutionary singularity of a unifying harmony, reconciliation and salvation arises from as much as comes to ground, we come home to the concrete reality of earthly and human solidarity only in so far as we and the world complete one another.

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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Robert Johnson Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Vocatus atqua / 7 In this / 9 So long Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1691440194409652224 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Tweet and subtweets here: Exactly. Bly's 'wounds of abstraction' characterizing an all-encompassing pathology of consciousness; the totalizing hegemony this Spectacle of reification invisibly maintains; and homecoming to concrete reality as the salvational pivot returning us, finally, to freedom's ground. 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers. Terrific. Perhaps also worth noting that whereas legacy forms of significance typically dismiss 'neighborly eco-social reality' as a defining, co-evolutionary pivot-point for personal and world transformation, it nonetheless remains our primary, bio-cultural 'space for agency'. 1/ Tackle both, at once? Relocalizing experience *and* shedding reification's bastard claim on significance itself, essentially what it takes to get Real. Rohr: "The principle is this: we must struggle with the truth in one concrete place, and then universalize from there." 2/ Where the co-evolutionary singularity of a unifying harmony, reconciliation and salvation arises from as much as comes to ground, we come home to the concrete reality of earthly and human solidarity only in so far as we and the world complete one another. Vocatus atqua non vocatus deus aderit. A working conversation, then. "If one works faithfully and patiently at this task of balancing heaven and earth, eventually one may realize something more remarkable: that the two worlds are in fact one. - Robert Johnson 7/ In this regard, a dynamic, co-evolutionary relationship with our habitat harkens back to the 'Deus humanus' of Renaissance philosophers, the wedding of part and whole, individual and Singularity, and our lives to the enormous force of the spirit of a time. There is not only anima mundi, the soul of the world, but also animus mundi—the sense of nature's intelligence and order. 9/ So long in exile from true unity with Ourselves, each Other, and Creation, we now return to an intimacy with the Ground of life fully lived, restoring the foreground we call history with its regenerative power, and the imaginal backdrop gifting our lives instructive meaning

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 27 Jul 2023

@kevinhargaden Both hold true and both require action. Of the simultaneity in practice, the experience of prophetic earthworkers confirms the somatic, personal requirements of a functional, coherent synthesis. New World Creation is *made*, and 'The Way', as you call it, requires *being made*.

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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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Monibot simply can't be flawed for the degree of his concern, passionate sense of urgency and proven moral courage. Nonetheless, our reality, the sages aver, is as large as our experience. Environmentalism is an intellectual pursuit: homecoming, a somatic encounter with the Real.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet beginning here: 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. Quote Tweet Monibot simply can't be flawed for the degree of his concern, passionate sense of urgency and proven moral courage. Nonetheless, our reality, the sages aver, is as large as our experience. Environmentalism is an intellectual pursuit: homecoming, a somatic encounter with the Real.

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Quoted by@AimeTim 3/ We use the terms 'truth of the neighborly' or 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from mediated Spectacle toward direct, proximate participation in a dynamic mutualism far transcending human limitations, genius and powers.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @leashless Exactly. Meade: “The conditions in which we find ourselves are the conditions *through* which we must find our true selves.” A realm of creative experience in which the world returns through us to an essential wholeness. Jesus didn’t exalt "peace-lovers"; he said, “peace-makers.”Quoted by@leashless Exactly. Meade: “The conditions in which we find ourselves are the conditions *through* which we must find our true selves.” A realm of creative experience in which the world returns through us to an essential wholeness. Jesus didn’t exalt "peace-lovers"; he said, “peace-makers.”Quoted by@Dan_Bowdoin James O'Dea: "Healing the wound of abstractions [Bly] is crucial to peacework.” What remains is to ground the Incarnation narrative the only place it can be done - in concrete experience of our partnered indivisibility with the God of Creation. Home is where we belong, after all.