@Dan_Bowdoin @brianmclaren @BrianZahnd “[I]t’s better to think about the aim of spiritual and religious efforts this way: as developing another - an extra - dimension of consciousness, & “seeing” a reality coexisting along with, but above & beyond ... our everyday world.” ~ Robert Ornstein & Sally Ornstein, God 4.0.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: 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) 1/🧵 "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
No single pedagogical method is equal to the gospel transmission of a radical transformation in the meaning of power in the unitive core of the human being, whereby all the heart’s quests are revalued and hierarchies of history reversed. The last is now first and the first last.
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Opening Prayer Sunday August 25th, 2024 Hope in the Grove Baptist Church, Cottage Grove, OR Dear Lord, Let us never forget you sent your Son to fulfill the Law. Give us this day the grace of Your blessing That our understanding may pierce the Mystery of Christ, That we may be led from the shadow of true things To the reality of the Kingdom itself, Out of the desert of sin, through salvation, To a still greater good of holiness Like branches from the eternal vine Bringing forth goodness According to the glorious transformation Of the resurrection process. Your inspired Word is the seed, Lord. Give us ‘Kingdom eyes’, ‘Kingdom ears’, That we might worship you by living your love, Signposts for the whole world Bearing witness to your promise, purpose and will Making all things new. Thy Kingdom come On earth as it is in heaven, Lord. In the name and spirit of Jesus. Amen.