Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@AimeTim @londonjesuit @JesuitsBritain @DamianHoward8 @CampionOxf 1/2 The S. Asian turn? It isn't in the literature, but among alert earthworkers, Kabir ranks as a patron saint of sorts. His, a shockingly Jesus-like idiom. Motifs that appeal? For one, calling out the seismic wrong-footedness of symbolic universes unhinged from Earth Reality.

Reading papers is not knowing life As Kabir said about priests “ They teach by reading books. I speak about what I see by reading life”. To know about agriculture we need to listen to the soil and biodiversity. We need to listen to farmers who feed us QT @BasuAshisIn Conversation With @GeorgeMonbiot on food and about his new book Regenesis. George read 5000 scientific papers as part of his research for the book. Pundits and pandits both, I ask ya. Big fan of Monibot's prescience and acuity around the gravity of climate chaos, but clearly he's one full remove away from a 'prima facie' encounter with regenerative earthwork and its grounded insights into epistemologies and ideologies unhinged from co-evolutionary realpolitik. Is it any wonder Kabir's no-nonsense appraisal of 'experts' fallen under the spell of their own abstractions holds such resonance for those of us schooled, daily, in the primordial, regenerative power and intelligence of the Real.
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Reading papers is not knowing life As Kabir said about priests “ They teach by reading books. I speak about what I see by reading life”. To know about agriculture we need to listen to the soil and biodiversity. We need to listen to farmers who feed us QT @BasuAshisIn Conversation With @GeorgeMonbiot on food and about his new book Regenesis. George read 5000 scientific papers as part of his research for the book. Pundits and pandits both, I ask ya. Big fan of Monibot's prescience and acuity around the gravity of climate chaos, but clearly he's one full remove away from a 'prima facie' encounter with regenerative earthwork and its grounded insights into epistemologies and ideologies unhinged from co-evolutionary realpolitik. Is it any wonder Kabir's no-nonsense appraisal of 'experts' fallen under the spell of their own abstractions holds such resonance for those of us schooled, daily, in the primordial, regenerative power and intelligence of the Real.

Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Jun7, 2023 end/ As above, below: as inner, outer. Ultimately, everything is ‘eco, the celestial and earthly reconciliaton and summation of religion included. And how does the co-evolutionary integrity of localized resurrection port-scale as absolute, planetary, eco-cultural foundation? Joshua Ralston @jbralston - Nov 20, 2022 Francis Clooney arguing for the import of place and geography for comparative theology and inter-religious learning Quote tweet: @nick routledge - Nov 29, 2022 2/ Take the promise and power of co-evolutionary diversity in the light of Francis Clooney's Indological leanings. What direct, incarnational relevance do South Asian prophet-contemplatives have to the contemporary regenerative design movement, for example?
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: Jun7, 2023 end/ As above, below: as inner, outer. Ultimately, everything is ‘eco, the celestial and earthly reconciliaton and summation of religion included. And how does the co-evolutionary integrity of localized resurrection port-scale as absolute, planetary, eco-cultural foundation? Joshua Ralston @jbralston - Nov 20, 2022 Francis Clooney arguing for the import of place and geography for comparative theology and inter-religious learning Quote tweet: @nick routledge - Nov 29, 2022 2/ Take the promise and power of co-evolutionary diversity in the light of Francis Clooney's Indological leanings. What direct, incarnational relevance do South Asian prophet-contemplatives have to the contemporary regenerative design movement, for example?

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Quoted by@PloughBooks 10/ Kabir is the threshold figure here: the great vernacular cutter-through. A poor people’s prophet of the Real, fearless before priest, mullah, caste, scripture, status and inherited contempt, his test was mercilessly simple: did a form liberate life, or did it hide from truth?