@Dan_Bowdoin end/ Panikkar: "The ultimate religious fact does not lie in the realm of doctrine or even individual self-consciousness... subordinating reality to mind. The ultimate basis for the method will have to be the very reality which the method helps to disclose." (Lk. 17:20-21)
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The Need for a Sacred Science, Seyedd Hossein Nasr. Image: the first paragraph of Chapter One, here:
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Image text supplied by Nick; quotation from Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Need for a Sacred Science (1993). Supplied transcription preserved; footnote bodies not included. CHAPTER ONE God Is Reality The sensualist and empirical epistemology, which has dominated the horizon of Western man in the modem period, has succeeded in reducing reality to the world experienced by the external senses, hence limiting the meaning of reality and removing the concept of ‘reality’ as a category pertaining to God. The consequence of this change in the very meaning of reality has been nothing less than catastrophic, reducing God and in fact all spiritual realms of being to the category of the abstract and finally to the unreal. At the base of the loss of the sense of the reality of God by modern man in his daily life lies the philosophical error of reducing the meaning of reality to the externally experienced world, of altering the meaning of realist in its early medieval sense to the connotation it has gained in various schools of philosophy since the rise of nominalism at the end of the Middle Ages. Cut off from the twin sources of metaphysical knowledge, namely revelation and intellection , 1 and also deprived of that inner spiritual experience which makes possible the concrete realization of higher levels of being, modern man has been confined to such a tmncated and limited aspect of reality that of necessity he has lost sight of God as Reality. Also, even if he continues to have faith in the Divinity, the conception of the Divinity as Reality does not at all accord with that empirically determined worldview 2 within which he lives and whose premisses he accepts unwittingly or often unconsciously.
Open original document1/🧵 "The wise speak of what is one in many ways." - Rig Veda 1 164. 46 “How do we begin to face the reality that it is no longer workable to function as billions of separate egos collected in competing nationalities and cultures?” - Anne Hillman Image: Damascus, OR. 8/7/21
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“Both the observer and observed are projections of an underlying, single reality, traditionally called God. Ponder upon this thought.” Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan “In the words of F. David Peat, Bohm considered that what we take for reality are "surface phenomena, ‘explicate’ forms that have temporarily unfolded out of an underlying ‘implicate’ order." Wikipedia “Our new sense of the universe is itself a type of revelatory experience.” Thomas Berry "As Plotinus knew and Nagajurna taught: always and always, the other world is this world rightly seen.” Ken Wilber “It was the realization that the right coins were not available in the common currency that drove me to study the thoughts of the prophets.” Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Copy of photograph attached to tweet here: Photograph of lyrics sung during an evening of Bhajans with Amma (Sri Mata Amritanandamayi) devotees and fellow landmates in Damascus, OR, August 7, 2021. ALLAH TUMAHO allah tumaho isvara tumaho tumi ho rama rahim (2x) yesu tumajo nanaka tumaho zoroastrabhi ho mahavira tumaho Gautama buddha karim (2x) Mere ram mere ram rama rahim.