@HaddenTurner @affinitytalks 19/ Covenant husbandry, then, is answerable hope in the real—inaugurated eschatology in work boots. Hope that doesn't get its hands dirty isn't hope; it's talk. Hope that refuses limits isn't participation; it's presumption wearing the costume of faithfulness.
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Wisdom from the Agrarians. "If we want to save the land, we must save the people who belong to the land. If we want to save the people, we must save the land the people belong to." - Wendell Berry. Local Economies to Save the Land and the People. Indeed, for regenerative designers, the idea that Humans and Habitat are somehow separate from each other, amounts to the greatest of fallacies. Instead, we consciously strive to 'best-fit' ourselves to the patterns and rhythms of a conjoined ecology, intelligence and direction. 7/ In this regard, a dynamic, co-evolutionary relationship with our habitat harkens back to the 'Deus humanus' of Renaissance philosophers, the wedding of part and whole, individual and Singularity, and our lives to the enormous force of the spirit of a time. There is not only anima mundi, the soul of the world, but also animus mundi—the sense of nature's intelligence and order. Subtweet: end/ 'Inherit the Earth'? Put another way, only the Kingdom gives access to Paradise, but only Paradise renders the Kingdom fully concretized - the Heaven of Earth of 'on earth as it is in heaven', "which is to say, in Dante's words, 'the beatitude of this life.'" (Agamben) []
Open original document@tenshi_anna 4/ Ultimately, patriarchy doesn't fall to revolt but to fulfillment. It isn't emasculated, but outgrown. New World Creation is tantric: heaven of earth, earth of heaven—masculine and feminine not erased but the bridal union of co-arising, regenerative life. The incarnate pattern.
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These aerial photos of our property were taken 22 years apart. The first one was the week Chris & I landed here in Australia. The second was a few months ago, after almost 18 years of implementing regenerative agriculture strategies. The land heals, gives back, & sustains. [Before and after images, from sparse to verdant] Goodness, what a planetary light you've become to the purposive romanticism of Gardener Kings and Queens of the New Creation, Norann. Such a blessing to our world, your portrait of the fruits of love fully inhabited and a life, fully incarnate. So thankful for your presence here. Quote tweet: Goodness, what a tremendously eloquent, lucid, illuminating and inspiring witness. It seems to me our final threshold to cross is 'getting down together', a complete form of homecoming in which heaven and earth dynamically, synchronously and resurrectively complete one another. "And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals….” Rev. 21: 3. Catherine Keller: "Could we, some critical mass of the species that has trashed the earth, yet recognize it as 'cosmic sanctuary'?" “And let everyone who hears say, ‘Come.’” It is as though we must yet call God, Messiah, the new cosmopolis down to earth. Their triune "coming” requires our calling them down. In other words, their immanence needs our invitation. Not metaphysically—if what we name divine signifies an infinity, a boundlessness, it is always already everywhere anyway. But apparently this theotopia needs our invitation in order to matter, to materialize, among us. We can no longer separate the life that “comes” from our becoming lives. This new creation won't happen without our desire, our collusion, our creativity. Its renewed and renewing waters and woods, its actually habitable habitats, wild, rural, urban, star-sparkled, depend upon our collective calling. Up to us to get down together, to get down to earth with that whole ancient bridal party. Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances. Catherine Keller
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