@RizomaSchool end/ If this resonates, that itself should give pause—apocalyptic clarity can intoxicate. The test isn't our vision's coherence but whether it makes us more capable of love, more present to what's breaking open, more patient with those (including ourselves) still learning to see.
1/12 The Event Has Come. We are not waiting for the eschaton. We are living within it—no longer approaching, but already arrived. The prophetic task now is to dwell in it with love, bear witness with compassion, and help others endure the weight of what is revealed. 🧵
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FB post, December 28 2018 So then, as the Light returns, cultural and cyberspatial disarray and division naturally echo and reinforce a larger ontological parsing mechanism of sorts, a deepening, revelatory severance of falsehood from truth, finally allowing us the space to come in from the grasp of a dominant culture in which the intense transience of a manufactured false front taken for ‘objective reality’, and its bastard notions of legitimacy and leadership, importance and authority, hold us captive, at a distance from life and each other. Take a breath, friends. The Apocalypse is not some invention and this is no dress-rehearsal. Here and now, in this very realm of existence, as in the parable of the wheat and the tares, 'Christ' and 'anti-Christ' are intermingled and concomitant until 'apocalypsis', the moment of vision and decision, is reached. Already, 'apocalypsis' is here. Already, this moment has arrived. Only, to paraphrase Bruce Sterling, it hasn't been evenly distributed.
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Yet, as James clarifies, it was never simply enough to assume or passively wait upon the current chaos somehow simply serving us. That way, he observes, may "only lead you deeper into the prevailing madness" and a modulation of consciousness leaning into what practiced contemplatives refer to as 'the hell-realm'. Simply stated, we stand upon a cusp. We have an active choice to make - of 'a conscious yes to a positive anthropology and to a core identity we draw upon as a reliable and Absolute Source,' as Richard Rohr states it, or to a flailing and fading caricature of reality associated with a dismal self-image. And where forums such as James' FB page provide essential guidance around what it is to coherently participate in an experiential realm where Reality comes to fullness in us both individually and together, it perhaps bears noting that we are also richer in counsel and allies solidly supporting our collective capacity to, as he says, "embody this truth", than we might imagine.