@papistlurker @tenshi_anna A Gaian democracy meets the Christic wherever the community of all life is received as the very tissue of Christ’s Body—where liberating praxis, biotic solidarity, and Christic doxology are inhabited as a unified metabolism. Without a home, 'Christian democracy' remains unhinged.
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17/ This wasn’t soft resonance. It was structural disruption. Not hovering above politics—but reordering it from below. Ontological messianism means the holy is lived, not legislated. It arises as justice made local, simplicity made durable, presence become political. 18/ Sahaja, Nund Rishi said, required 'rebirth.' Incarnation wasn’t a doctrine—it was a location. It meant the divine could only appear through the neighbor, the landscape, the wound. It’s not what we believe—it’s how we breathe reality in relationship. Right here. Now. 19/ From such breath, history turns. Revolution, then, is a spiritual metabolism of history; political emancipation, divine unfolding made flesh—the cosmos evolving through justice enacted. Messianism meets ecology when each soul midwives the Real through radical neighborliness. 20/ The Kingdom, then, doesn’t arrive fully formed. It takes form—through us. It isn't bestowed. It is built. Not in doctrine, nor by elites, but by making it Real in the labor of loving. Kabir wove. Nund Rishi farmed. Christ worked with wood. No castes, no courts, no careerists. [Painting ‘squaring the circle of heaven and earth’ with calligraphy; “Establish something much better than we have now. Poor People’s Campaign.”] Subtweet: 4/ One of the more astute takedowns of the entire fallacy issues from the S. Asian prophet contemplative, Kabir, who never shied from declaring such "throwing of intensity forward" precisely the root incoherence affording religious and secular powers their credence and authority. 21/ Hence Nund Rishi, a farmer himself, called for action, not abstraction. Sahaja was incarnation, the eschaton practiced at ground level. Social concerns trumped religious preoccupations. Paradise was practiced in the vernacular of addressing hunger. Justice was handmade.
Open original document@Bert_Carr @jeffreyatucker @brownstoneinst The polis is as bound to natural law as the forest. Democracy is not built upon agrarianism as much as inseparable from it. No constitution can save a people estranged from right relationship with the daily referendum sovereignty roots in. Democracy is inhabited through eating.
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Copy of tweet here: 3/ A defining cultural challenge is how to learn/teach the democratic foundations of robust food systems and, in the same breath, resilient food systems as robust foundations of democracy. Wendell Berry: "At some point these issues catch up to you." We can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture, Wendell Berry says: “At certain points these systems have to conform with one another or destroy one another...You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.”