@commonwealmag @NWirzba Norman, I wanted to thank you for all that you do, with this spirited late season blessing from the inimitable Catherine Keller. Her talk got me to thinking of optimism, in the Barthian sense, as hope dynamically on the move. Here's to 2025 as a fresh, incarnational leap, eh?
@lukeburgis On the one hand, Vilayat Khan: “Revisioning God as the Universe has staggering implications for how we view reality.” And on the other, Einstein: "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." Surprise, the ontic structure of parousia experience, spares Techbros least of all.
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Copy of tweet here: Lovely. Was driving to a first-time rendez-vous with Lindisfarne fellow Ralph Abraham, one of the founders of chaos theory, and authoritative on Teilhard de Chardin's concept of planetary consciousness consolidation as it relates to the Cloud, when I stopped for a hitchhike: It’s 1995. A hitch-hiking day-laborer, morning-drunk, asks me why I’m headed toward UCSC and Ralph H. Abraham. Judging him, I try opaque deflection: “To talk about the shift to a collective consciousness.” “Oh,” my passenger replies, “That’s the next step in evolution, isn’t it?”r... QT: Dedicated to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955 - Frontspiece to The Web Empowerment Book, 1995, co-authored by Ralph Abraham, author of CHAOS, GAIA, EROS: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of History, 1994. Barlow: "It's a little odd that the great Ralph Abraham would be writing a Web guide." - Barlow, Kreisberg 1994