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@lukeburgis 2/ As for a reliable, Self-directed guidance mechanism? For one, guard from choosing the wrong train. 'Place a sentinel at the doors of perception' (Buddha) and, in Christological terms, vote with your feet for an immanent historical dynamism transforming all of created reality.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 18 May 2024

@pauljpastor Put another way, 'hallowing the attention span' is synchronous to recognizing the Reign of God, "already spread out among us, yet you do not see it." Discrimination, then, a discipline central to basic navigational nous. 'When how you get there is where you arrive, arrive now!'

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1/ "Some insist that Jesus meant for us to live out these teachings fully now; others argue that this will only be possible when he returns." To dyadic basics, then? Panikkar: "The ultimate basis for the method will have to be the very reality which the method helps to disclose
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Quoted by@lukeburgis Robert Anton Wilson suggested eschewing use of the verb 'to be'. Why? Using it in instances such as this may persuade the speaker that they're describing reality rather than their own experience. I do almost no e-comms, for example. My exchanges, mostly concrete and unmediated.