@trippfuller 4/ Perhaps Benjamin put it best, describing his use of a kind of alchemical, theological-atheological fusion or emergent reconciliation catalyzed in the ‘sudden paradoxical change of one form of [religious or political] observance into the other (regardless of which direction)’.
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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.”
@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.
