@aliner "To discover the secret that there is no secret is the ultimate secret that one can neither divulge nor withhold. To see with no veil is to see that there is no seeing without a veil." - E. Wolfson, Messianic Anthropos: Beyond Theopoetic Metaphoricization, Kabbalah & Modernity
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Alan Kay Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Perspective Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. "Perspective," notes Alan Kay, "is worth 50 points of IQ." Ultimately, we find ourselves arrived at an evolutionary crisis, a paradigmatic impasse in legacy structures of perception, means and influence. 'Getting it' and 'getting out of it', message and medium, one and the same.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting unnamed he Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: He also said Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1857467737523761192 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @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. t.co/TI1Piv9VMt t.co/Cgbsus1EeU
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting McLuhan Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 5 McLuhan Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 5/ McLuhan: "In Jesus, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same...it is only at the level of a lived Christianity that the medium really is the message." t.co/agnWcRUHLd
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Read Mercer Schuchardt Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Though he never coined Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @moltmannjuergen “Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight. The 'medium is the message' may have been merely its conceptual phrasing.” - Read Mercer Schuchardt, The Reformation as Media Event, Second Nature @theccsn t.co/gCbWvsvjyE
Open original document2/ Asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was to come, he gave them this answer, “The coming of the kingdom of God does not admit of observation and there will be no one to say, ‘Look here! Look there!’ For, you must know, the kingdom of God is among you.” (Lk. 17:20-21)
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“The ‘hidden treasure’ is concealed behind the very veil that reveals, and reveals by the very veil that conceals. Another way of putting this is to say God is the inward, without being inside of anything. This is not in the sense we are accustomed to thinking of something as inward as opposed to being outward. God is the most hidden, but not hidden in something else, something other than itself. God is veiled, but in plain view. All is Sirr ‘ul-’asrar, secret of secrets.” Q. 57:3 “He is…the Outward and the Inward.” “Tagatha directed Shariputra to put a question to Avalokiteshvara. Shariputra accordingly asked Avalokiteshvara how the perfection of wisdom should be practiced. The pith of his answer? Hear, O Shariputra, form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form, emptiness does not differ from form, form does not differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form, the same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses and consciousness.”
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“The pure consciousness…does not look at things and does not ignore, annihilate, or negate them. It accepts them fully, in complete oneness with them. It looks “out of them” as though fulfilling the role of consciousness not for itself only but for them also…Any moment you can break through to the underlying unity which is God’s gift in Christ. Openness is all.” Thomas Merton “Depth happens when the spectacle looks back at the spectator.” Roland Barthes Meditation occurs whenever our innermost awareness is trained upon the shocking nearness yet elusive distance of what is present…It is a kind of fundamental astonishment or perplexity reflecting that which simultaneously shows itself and withdraws. Stephen Batchelor Who could have seen Him? For that oneness is exclusive. Had He any two-ness, He’d not be so elusive. Asad Allah Khan Ghalib