@PageauJonathan 1/33 The mysterious Christian-Islamic resonance you note is no anomaly. When systems of meaning and power fracture, transformation breaks through in archetypal form—again and again, coalescing around a figure both ancient and new: the trickster, the hidden prophet—or both in one.
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Copy of tweet here: 13/ As a rule, revelation manifests as meaningful coincidence or synchronicity, the primary hallmark of rich interplay at work. We look, then, to resonant complementarities spanning the richly diverse 'cosmovisions' (Panikkar) through which different peoples experience the world. 14/ Frankly, highly distinctive, unique, kaleidoscopic cultural forms corresponding to a common pattern or 'archetype' aren't exceptional. Their trans-cultural integration, united in mutuality as a powerfully configured, synergistic force and direction is more rare. 15/ Even where civilizations are antagonists and shadowed by fierce distance, a deeper, more compelling dimension of primordial, transcendent ground still serves as a relational magnet and bridge for the emergence of novel, cross-fertilizing iterations of a greater whole.