@RizomaSchool There's only one way to find out. I trained daily at one of the country's most orthodox Buddhist temples for a few years. Precious times. Pluriversalism? Moriarty: "Jesus is our hero of integration." Most folk thrive in the familiar: some are cosy in a sincerely planetarian mode.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201547415670792 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. By ‘Westernizing’ the thangka method in symbolic geometrical form, the images which follow describe a novel, experiential gathering, synthesis and integration of three highly distinct, subtle-body technologies emerging out of Sufi, Daoist and Yogic contemplative disciplines. 7/ t.co/cgZ7NHtB0a
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201556538368006 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Three ‘thangkas’, in chronological procession, then. The first, an effort to paint an experiential picture of ‘Dhikr-i Jaru-b’, the Naqshbandi Dhikr of the Broom; a practice to purify and energize the ‘Lata’if’ or subtle-energy-centers specific to Sufi contemplative practice. 8/ t.co/LuthZkqI6x
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, posts7–10 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1397201564205469701 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. The second ‘thangka’, I initially constructed to theorize the feasibility of a further, fuller, inter-spiritual iteration, integrating Sufi Lata’if and Yogic Chakras, and ‘Eight Internal Iron Palms Qi Gong’. The geometric archetype ‘clicked.’ Experientially, it could work! 9/ t.co/FuRVJTgSfQ
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Open original document@Naifalbidh What if only in such intensifications between highly diverse cosmovisions can the vicious cycle ultimately give way to a vital circle - to a novel, planetarian symbiote of revelation set within a common horizon of hope and its expectation of an ultimate communion of eternal life?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Bhagavad Gita4:7–8 Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Gita 4:7-8 Whenever there is decay of righteousness, O Bharata, And there is exaltation of unrighteousness, then I Myself come forth ; For the protection of the good, for the destruction of evil-doers, For the sake of firmly establishing righteousness, I am born from age to age.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1812860339438186547 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @GabrielSaidR 'Surprise!' as they say. Our 'Day' of liberation in which an Extinction Tyranny defined by maniacal, interlocking, global structures of secular and religious consciousness and power, is espistemically demolished by the planetary-saving righteousness of the force of truth itself. t.co/qJXf2RTSx1
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Heschel Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1708936724066574764 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jbralston Whatever its animating drive, that pivotal lack of humility is precisely what Heschel reckoned with in his nonsense-ending averral that "an eschatological event will be necessary to silence the arrogance of man." Ultimately, an inclusive eschatology serves up a democratic claim. t.co/nXwe176qRY
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1666472668114358273 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jbralston @uoedivinity @RimSarah @josh_good_ 2/ The 'status quo' of a totalizing, global, religio-political control-complex with no effective interest in reconciliatory reformation, implicitly requires rejecting co-evolutionary consciousness. The applied revelation of a planetary prophetology simply end-runs the power play.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Michael Meade Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1732897039846117500 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @faustroll @nyctherapist Well, yes and no. What this is not, is an interminable slog toward a dead end; rather, the disarray necessarily defining a phase shift of evolutionary proportions as one planetary paradigm crashes and another replaces it. Meade: “Welcome to the end of the world as we knew it.” t.co/pSJ5xLeJ7y
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet: Ultimately, the catastrophe of a global religio-political control-complex with no operative interest in reconciliatory reformation, summons the advent of planetary prophetology's unifying articulation - the planetary-saving righteousness of an inclusive eschatology, revealed.
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