@John_Wells_1 He concludes: "The final end and ultimate return of the gnostics is that the Real is identical with them, while they do not exist." Fine, but what if the Real isn't static? What if contemplative depth is itself evolving—alive to context and current, constituted through relation?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick borrowing Catherine Keller terminology Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1947359631602553151 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @SabineVdL @Plough To borrow Catherine Keller's term, consciousness isn’t a lonely spark but the local flare of an 'intercarnational' self—a fully entangled, co-evolving nexus through which the universe individuates, feels, thinks, and then diffuses again into the wider weave of relations. t.co/VhQx1Al2hd
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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/1920131544972480992 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @Plough There's more. Conscience, a universal human endowment, is the supernatural virtue of authenticity in the domain of thought, a vector of divine presence and purpose, and an embodied conduit whereby divine guidance infuses and transforms history and reality in its co-creative lure. t.co/C6FWBMZt8f
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick quoting Pir Vilayat Khan; Nick nested7/ 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 and quote tweet here: The true authority of the illuminated conscience. "The spirituality of our times requires a shift from merely awakening consciousness to the awakening of the conscience, which encompasses a realization of interdependence and interconnection between all beings." - Pir Vilayat Khan 7/ What is it then, to reconcile our autobiographies to the enormous force of the spirit of an age, to wed consciousness to conscience in the concrete embodiment of a personal response proportionate to the needs of our era, concomitant to awakening to life's intrinsic wholeness?
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick citing Keller and Bruno Barnhart Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1876037360556855797 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @lukeburgis We can go further. In effect, the conscience-driven life defines an activated suprapersonal, suprahistorical power and intelligence whereby God becomes 'intercarnational' (Catherine Keller) as 'an immanent historical dynamism transforming all of created reality' (Bruno Barnhart).
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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/1807433914258182310 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @SherPoint And, of course, to admit that such intelligence, available to all, is ultimately collective, non-local and interdependent means we must be prepared to change more than just our commonsense understanding of the universe, for the implications are staggering.
Open original document@jeff_bilbro @CTmagazine Kingdom hermaneutics, isn't it? What seems like retreat from the world's systems is actually the deepest form of engagement. The Real, it transpires, is fundamentally _reinhabited_. Where loving your neighbor integrates the more-than-human dimension, even angels stay to garden.
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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/1778794594588819704 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @AndrewMillison And, sadly, child's play relative to, say, the massive acceleration of vast, machine-driven resources of dominative structures of power and consciousness deliberately shaping universal attention span in their psychotic image. Then again, what is permaculture fundamentally for? t.co/Uaj9r3lTOJ
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick, AI mechanism and nested Realocalization bodies 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: Could be that AI functionally represents the latest, cosmic twist of an algorithmically-supercharged parsing mechanism. And perhaps the WWW exists to undo itself. Either way, getting Real and getting Down defines an existential essential of the Soul's walk Home. Dignity, yes. Quote tweet: end/ Ultimately, of course, the planet and our future are what we all share. In this light, prophetic earthwork transcends the schismatic distinctions of tribe, nation and religion in active, common assent to the truth of the neighborly. ‘Realocalization’ is how we describe it.
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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/1715021304775233692 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @TaraAnnThieke Energy comes and goes where attention flows? I commonly use the term 'realocalization' to describe this emphatic, planetary shift in experiential locus, away from synthetic Spectacle toward unmediated encounter with native intelligence. A timeless resonance, loving your neighbor. t.co/UtUXR1o10v
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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/1689679775043076096 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @nils_gilman Terrific. Perhaps also worth noting that whereas legacy forms of significance typically dismiss 'neighborly eco-social reality' as a defining, co-evolutionary pivot-point for personal and world transformation, it nonetheless remains our primary, bio-cultural 'space for agency'.
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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/1703866053825376509 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @jeffreyatucker 2/ The pathology, we now recognize. Our primary challenge, then? How best to tackle it. 'What, who and how can we trust?' As it happens, the 'Realocalization' movement is putting flesh on the vines. What does the work involve? In a nutshell, returning to the home-field advantage.
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