RT @nick_routledge: @jonmsweeney Ultimately, where is the fundamental substrate of world peace experientially founded? Bourgeault describes midwifing the Third Way - the 'holy reconciliation' of 'contradictions' miraculously transfigured in the greater, transmutative alchemy of epiphenomenal personal experience.
![It seems that envisioning all of reality in terms of three worlds is an invariant of human culture, whether this vision is expressed spatially, temporally, cosmologically or metaphysically. One sacred text, among many others, says: “He revealed himself threefold.” [Notes: Sa tredha atmanam vyakuruta. “He revealed himself threefold,” says Brhadaranyaka Upanisad I, 2, 3.]
Raimon Panikkar, The Cosmotheandric Experience: Emerging Religious Experience
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Schoolmaster: Now you're sure you've got the Catechism all buttoned up, Foster?
Foster: I'm still a bit hazy about the Trinity, sir.
Schoolmaster: Three in one, one in three, perfectly straightforward. Any doubts about that, see your maths master.
Alan Bennett, Forty Years On
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“Third force is there because the Trinity is real...The capacity to midwife the third force or holy the reconciling is for me the most powerful fruit of contemplative spiritual practice.”
Cynthia Bourgeault, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three](/media/1896948116278182020-GlNQQZnbcAIeh0Q.jpg)
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It seems that envisioning all of reality in terms of three worlds is an invariant of human culture, whether this vision is expressed spatially, temporally, cosmologically or metaphysically. One sacred text, among many others, says: “He revealed himself threefold.” [Notes: Sa tredha atmanam vyakuruta. “He revealed himself threefold,” says Brhadaranyaka Upanisad I, 2, 3.] Raimon Panikkar, The Cosmotheandric Experience: Emerging Religious Experience ⧫⧫⧫ Schoolmaster: Now you're sure you've got the Catechism all buttoned up, Foster? Foster: I'm still a bit hazy about the Trinity, sir. Schoolmaster: Three in one, one in three, perfectly straightforward. Any doubts about that, see your maths master. Alan Bennett, Forty Years On ⧫⧫⧫ “Third force is there because the Trinity is real...The capacity to midwife the third force or holy the reconciling is for me the most powerful fruit of contemplative spiritual practice.” Cynthia Bourgeault, The Holy Trinity and the Law of Three
@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.”