@brianmclaren @Greg1Garrett Homing in on the Turtle Island current, are you aware Heȟáka Sápa ('Black Elk') is currently a candidate for canonization? I wonder if he and the icon-painter, Fr. John Giuliani, discovered in messianic indigeneity, the reconciliation and fulfillment of path and peace, incarnate.
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Lakota Victory Christ, by Fr. John Giuliani. "Traditional iconography gives witness to the human face of the Sacred. This icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, reveals anew that sacred power. It celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land."
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Hopi Virgin and Child, by Fr. John Giuliani. "The hands of this Hopi Virgin Mother join with the gentle reach of her son in expressing the prophetic pain of human love and separation. Theirs is a cannon destiny--the return of the gift received. Both the mother’s manta and child’s shirt are richly embroidered with traditional Hopi design and symbol. She wears a multi-layered bead necklace; and her ceremonial moccasins rubbed with kaolin take on the seasoned patina of an old adobe wall. The virgin child stands barefoot on a Moquin pattern serape. Shawled in a particular Hopi child’s fabric, he appears prophetically rabbinic. This icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land."
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Annunciation, by Fr. John Giuliani. Traditional iconography gives witness to the human face of the Sacred. This icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, reveals anew that sacred power. It celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land."
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Navajo Jesus and Disciples, by Fr. John Giuliani. Traditional iconography gives witness to the human face of the Sacred. This icon, imaged in the features of America’s indigenous peoples, reveals anew that sacred power. It celebrates the soul of the Native American as the original spiritual presence on this continent, and as a prophetic sign, it celebrates the reconciliation of the spiritual vision of Native and Christian peoples of this land."
@pauljpastor I concur with your gist, Paul, though I'm a tad uncomfortable with the use of 'folk religion' as a pejorative. I, for one, would aver the fullness of the Cosmic Christ can be realized only as an essentially parochial, indigenous phenomenon. Every resurrection, ultimately local.
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Copy of tweet here: "Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia." Whatever we call it - the Reign, Body of the Buddha, Land of the Lotus Paradise, New Jerusalem - reality in its wholeness is fully an eco-cultural phenomenon born of a dynamic complex of mutual adaptation, co-evolution, companionship and synergy. 1/6 It was John Moriarty, a gardener at the Carmelite priory in Boars Hill, Oxford, who declared, "Jesus is our hero of integration." As he interprets it, the deep ecology of peacemaking effects and requires an integral, intra-realm response to a symbiotic eco-cultural challenge. @nick_routledge Jun 15 1/ The Heaven of Earth, actualized? A unified, bio-cultural simultaneity. Wendell Berry: “You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.” Integral ecology in practice, then? The Resurrection Body of our salvation, made. "Praying is not enough."