RT @nick_routledge: @jonmsweeney He also said, "I have no program for this seeing. But the gate of heaven is everywhere." The fundamental messianic conundrum, then? Perceptual (Mark 8:17-18). Our 'Kingdom eyes' open only in so far as we do, to Medium and Message, God and Reality, Local and Absolute, as One.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting remembered anthology/Guide Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 2 Young / 3 But / 4 Where Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1803570985217749347 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 2/ Young once and naive, I assumed the confident refrain seemingly characterizing every anthology of mysticism I'd stumbled upon (namely, "Only mysticism for everybody can save the world") sagely anticipated the forthcoming advent of a mass awakening to mystical common sense. 3/ But it didn't add up. 'Mysticism’ was obscure, opaque and, to most folk, irrelevant or repellent. Soon, provoked by a Guide's averral that "our path will only ever be for the few", I broke with an 'esoteric unilateralism' quite at odds, I felt, with my democratic inclinations. 4/ Where was 'mysticism for the masses' to be found? I had no idea. But I powerfully intuited a Jesus walk would show the way. As I see it now, the quest for what was most Real carried me toward an incarnational territory of belonging effectively transcending oppositional ground. 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. 6/ Ultimately, the truth I sought - reconciliation’s fullest expression - had to be inclusive. Rohr: “If it is true, it has to be true everywhere.” Given that Planetary Awakening is by no means a singularly Christian, White or Occidental affair, help arrived from everywhere.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 3 Before a report Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @BrianZahnd @Stu0Miller 3/ Before a report, context. Cultured, cosmopolitian, worldly and, by then, righteously dechurched, my deliberate surrender to life as a penniless, peripatetic mendicant almost 30 years ago, proceeded to expose me to modes of significance and order I could never have anticipated. t.co/fpKT24SNWy
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible only / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787272868405250 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon ...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...
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible only / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787598761582595 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon 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..
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible only / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395787763434201088 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon ...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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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Where teachers / Prophetic vision / accessible only / In the co-evolutionary flow Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1395788203500523526 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @poetinbabylon In the co-evolutionary flow of the prophet’s life, an entire realm of existence accompanied by a seismic shift in meaning, significance and potentiality, otherwise hidden, becomes manifest. The peaceable kingdom is but integral reality, actualized.
Open original document@helen_barratt @HaddenTurner @RichAH67 Here, a portrait of Kingdom dynamics tabernacling in a regenerative design project addressing the desolation and destitution of human community and landscape, in the same breath - the solidarity of social and planetary renewal, the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet: 3/ Marriages of visionary social projects to visionary agro-ecological projects, in combinations which ‘click’, define functional, justice-based regenerative design. Naturally, such work is inherently localizing or ‘co-evolutionary’. How could it be any other way? Quote tweet: N. O. Brown: “Laborare est orare, to labor is to pray. Overcoming the distinction between the active and the contemplative. Overcoming the distinction between works and grace. The Garden Project.” The heaven of earth, made Real. The Third Way.