5/ The First Advent inaugurated resurrection causality; the Second universalizes it—unveiling reality so completely that truth becomes ambient, re-coding what counts as sane, true, and possible. The old order's "sanity" is unmasked as derangement. Its plausibility collapses.
@alon_mizrahi 1/8 “The iron bridge of the Messiah”—Kafka’s image of the brittle threshold between history and redemption. The Messiah crosses just as the bridge collapses. What brought us this far—iron, empire, machine—cannot cross into the new world. Collapse is not failure. It is release.
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...All very well. But what does this mean for today? As friend and collaborator, Eugene-based Tom Atlee, remarks of the return of spiritual sense to temporal concerns: “All deep dialogue is essentially spiritual, whether participants know it or not. Implicitly spiritual dialogue is as spiritual as explicitly spiritual dialogue. To empower such dialogue politically is to bring spirit to politics and governance in a very democratic way. It is to replace the power of special interests - and even the power of poorly thought-out public opinion - with the power of Life at its deepest and best.”
Indeed. Here, then, the Register-Guard newspaper clippings and pages of the relevant City Council minutes from July 1999, detailing public response to the 'martial law ordinance'.](/media/1972361745613389931-G188jSHa0AA45Yi.jpg)
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[Edited for length] ...All very well. But what does this mean for today? As friend and collaborator, Eugene-based Tom Atlee, remarks of the return of spiritual sense to temporal concerns: “All deep dialogue is essentially spiritual, whether participants know it or not. Implicitly spiritual dialogue is as spiritual as explicitly spiritual dialogue. To empower such dialogue politically is to bring spirit to politics and governance in a very democratic way. It is to replace the power of special interests - and even the power of poorly thought-out public opinion - with the power of Life at its deepest and best.” Indeed. Here, then, the Register-Guard newspaper clippings and pages of the relevant City Council minutes from July 1999, detailing public response to the 'martial law ordinance'.