@mjkaul N.O. Brown: "Truth, a broken body." McLuhan's "mode of broken or syncopated manipulation to permit inclusive or simultaneous perception of a total or diversified field." Paradox, as koanlike circuit-breaker. Slapping the catcher. Clapping the Kingdom.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Cynthia Bourgeault Recovered pictured passage; not a claim to the full source. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1868719577150242948 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Without a contemplative practice, midwifing third force is virtually impossible. . . .
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: SophiaCycles (Béa Gonzalez) quoting David Tacey Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: The role of consciousness Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: The role of consciousness is to adjudicate on conflicts and decide how they are to be resolved. The tension generated from the conflict is what drives consciousness forward.~David Tacey Copy of tweet thread here: 1/2 John Ralston Saul: “I do not sense that we seek the comfort or the false freedom of denial. We understand the truer comfort of a permanent psychic discomfort in which we seek to identify reality. And we deal with reality..." 2/2 "... through the creative tensions with which we attempt to balance our qualities. This is our eternal movement toward equilibrium.”
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Rumi, Gadamer, Bourgeault Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Rumi notes Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @SophiaCycles Rumi notes the secret of Allah is found between the opposites; Hans-Georg Gadamer, “The integrity of a society demonstrates itself in how that society engages with contradiction”; Bourgeault refers repeatedly to the ‘holy reconciling’ of the Third Way. t.co/giaxKybr5u
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Cynthia Bourgeault quotation with uncredited connective prose Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Cynthia Bourgeault explains / as Jesus said / Bourgeault shares / manifestation of love Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1868719577150242948 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Trinity, or Midwifing the Third Force. An experiment in analog-digital collage. Cynthia Bourgeault explains the nuance of the Third Way as follows: "The interplay of two polarities calls forth a third, which is the “mediating” or “reconciling” principle between them. In contrast to a binary system, which finds stability in the balance of opposites, the ternary system stipulates a third force that emerges as the necessary mediation of these opposites and that in turn (and this is the really crucial point) generates a synthesis _at_a_whole_new_level_. It is a dialectic whose resolution simultaneously creates a new realm of possibility. "...as Jesus said, “unless [a seed] falls into the ground and dies, [it] remains a single seed” [John 12:24]. If this seed does fall into the ground, it enters a sacred transformative process. Seed, the first or “affirming” force, meets ground, the second or “denying” force (and at that, it has to be moist ground, water being its most critical first component). But even in this encounter, nothing will happen until sunlight, the third or “reconciling” force, enters the equation. Then among the three they generate a sprout, which is the actualization of the possibility latent in the seed—and a whole new “field” of possibility." Bourgeault shares how Jesus brings third force to the situation of the woman caught in adultery. When presented with the polarities of stoning the woman or freeing her, Jesus says, “Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her” (John 8:7). Bourgeault writes: “He finds the thing that will put the terrible two binaries in a completely new relationship and creates a new kingdom . . . called compassion, forgiveness.” She goes on to say: "The manifestation of love is there in the situation, but you need to find it. . . . Third force is there because the Trinity is real, and if you are alert to it, you will be able to find it. . . . The problem is that most of the world is third force blind. . . . The capacity to midwife third force or holy the reconciling is for me the most powerful fruit of a contemplative spiritual practice. . . . With a spiritual practice you will be better and better equipped to get into the dance which will allow you to see how to deliver third force in any given situation."
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge quoting Corbin and Gandhi Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: 8 The guiding idea Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1868719577150242948 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. 8/ “The guiding idea,” notes Corbin, “is the idea of an integration or reintegration into the whole,” a natural aspect of life where worldly and spiritual salvation, reconciliation and redemption, mix and match. Gandhi understood: “The sphere of Spirit and politics is one.” t.co/PyfkbUKXRq t.co/d4vsoB1eKW
Open original document@austeni What does the prophet mean by what they say? Jesus repeatedly asserts his disciples do not hear him. The mystery of the gospel, then, is radical: a circuit-breaker. As such, asked for the greatest commandment, Jesus says what? "Hear, O Israel! ..." First, hear the Kingdom aright.
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Copy of tweets here: On restoring the correspondence between God and word? In one of his last letters from prison, before the the Nazis murdered him, Bonhoeffer wrote, “The day will come when men will once more be called so to utter the word of God that the world will be changed and renewed by it...” “... It will be a new language, perhaps quite non-religious, but liberating and redeeming as was Jesus’ language; it will shock people and yet overcome them by its power.” 2 Thessalonians 2:8. James Hillman: "Words, like angels, are powers."