@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.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: As Wallace Stevens wrote and as James Hillman would later be fond of quoting, “the way through the world is harder to find than the way beyond it.” Simply setting foot on the Earth might yet turn out to be Paradise Regained. Quote tweet: "The Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth" construct? Kabir (loathed by clerics of his era: but now interspirtually revered) referred to "the throwing of intensity forward," a universal salvationist fantasy which religions of status quo remain only too willing to encourage.
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Copy of tweet: Home is not where you were born, Home is where all your attempts to escape cease. -Naguib Mahfouz Image of the verse in Arabic script.
@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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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Thomas Moore Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: There is not only anima mundi Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of quote tweet: Nick Routledge · 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. Quote Tweet Thomas Moore There is not only anima mundi, the soul of the world, but also animus mundi—the sense of nature's intelligence and order.
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