@ThinkingFaith 1/12 Walking in Kingdom light, I’m grounded in the ordinary, daily proof of history's drift toward divine reconciliation. An itinerant life as a wandering horticulturist has been the chief guide and catalyst of my formation across all major traditions, including normative Islam.
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2/ Young once and naive, I assumed the confident refrain seemingly characterizing every anthology of mysticism I'd stumbled upon (namely, "Only mysticism for everybody can save the world") sagely anticipated the forthcoming advent of a mass awakening to mystical common sense. 3/ But it didn't add up. 'Mysticism’ was obscure, opaque and, to most folk, irrelevant or repellent. Soon, provoked by a Guide's averral that "our path will only ever be for the few", I broke with an 'esoteric unilateralism' quite at odds, I felt, with my democratic inclinations. 4/ Where was 'mysticism for the masses' to be found? I had no idea. But I powerfully intuited a Jesus walk would show the way. As I see it now, the quest for what was most Real carried me toward an incarnational territory of belonging effectively transcending oppositional ground. 5/ As an esotericist, I continued to train: as an exotericist, I continued to walk. “Pilgrimage may be thought of as extroverted mysticism, just as mysticism is introverted pilgrimage," a wedding, the decades affirmed, proving most elegantly actualized through works of service. 6/ Ultimately, the truth I sought - reconciliation’s fullest expression - had to be inclusive. Rohr: “If it is true, it has to be true everywhere.” Given that Planetary Awakening is by no means a singularly Christian, White or Occidental affair, help arrived from everywhere.
Open original document@DalrympleWill He helped set me walking, not just to pass over ground, but to enter a reciprocal rite—each step, a covenantal exchange where boundaries blur and walker and walked co-inhere. In time, the path is inscribed not just in earth but in heart, until identity and essence mirror terrain.
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Copy of tweet here: Chatwin and Herzog together, played a central role awakening me to the ontology of walking. Stateside, not long thereafter, I gave it all away and literally walked, for some 2-3 years, without money or possessions. A mendicant media ecologist, walking and talking.