@SophiaCycles A working conversation, then. Robert Johnson: "If one works faithfully and patiently at this task of balancing heaven and earth, eventually one may realize something more remarkable: that the two worlds are in fact one."
@millinerd For Paradise Gardeners, the strength of the hills matters no less than the strength of the drink, the World no less than the Myth. The Dionysian Christ, then, a co-evolutionary epiphany; deep incarnation to the degree we enflesh the simultaneity of human and earthly resurrection.
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I began with the name of Dionysus; let me be permitted to end with the name of Christ: for the power I seek is also Christian. Nietzsche indeed said the whole question was Dionysus versus Christ; but only the fool will take these as mutually exclusive opposites. There is a Dionysian Christianity, an apocalyptic Christianity, a Christianity of miracles and revelations. And there have always been some Christians for whom the age of miracle and revelation is not over; Christians who claim the spirit; enthusiasts. The power I look for is the power of enthusiasm: as… Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind; Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis, Norman Brown, University of California Press, 1991