@SherPoint 5/ As an esotericist, I continued to train: as an exotericist, I continued to walk. “Pilgrimage may be thought of as extroverted mysticism, just as mysticism is introverted pilgrimage," a wedding, the decades affirmed, proving most elegantly actualized through works of service.
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Copy of tweet here: Here, a symbolic representation of a novel gathering, synthesis and integration of three highly distinct subtle-body technologies emerging out of Yogic, Taoist, and Sufi contemplative disciplines, unified within the locus of direct personal experience. With four images showing the artful construction of a ‘thangka’ or portrait of an original, interspiritual meditation practice, revealing the foundational structure of the syncretic subtle-body system illuminated in the unifying locus of personal experience portrayed as an outer circle describing the Daoist Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Orbit practice concurrently running the Dhikr of the Broom, dynamically energizing and integrating the three-as-one ‘subtle-body-system’ as a single reality.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: 4/ Along the way, I've been consistently taken aback by the metaphysical power, integrity and ubiquity of a broad array of psyche-technes disregarded by received theological perspectives and epistemologies. Among the kind poor, hillbillies have driven me habitually to church. Quote tweet: Prima facie Pentecostal _experience_ flys so far under the radar of mainstream reification of the flow of the spirit, even the basic premise of this discussion illuminates the anesthetized heart of theological abstraction. Perhaps try a bona fide street church and report back?
@SophiaCycles I'd planned on a rewrite: you got to me first! I apologize. Yes, I admit I can sound hard naming a universalist tendency I perceive, for professional contemplatives to declare the relative *primacy* of cushioned mysticism to dropping an awakened shoulder. Of course it's both/and.
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Copy of tweet thread here: ...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... 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 ...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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Copy of text linked to here: According to Scholem, the early Kabbalah suppressed or "neutralized" such active, restorative and apocalyptic elements within Jewish mysticism. Instead, 'non-messianic redemption' assumed prominence, suggesting that the inner life, rather than 'messianic deeds' in history, brought freedom for the captives, and liberation from the subjugation of the exiles. (We witnessed a similar historical regression within Christianity, of course. After Jesus' followers had failed to redeem the external world, how could social redemption even be defined except by turning away, inward?)