@Shermanicus 1/2 Where “the rigorous unity of the prophetic Revelatory Principle in history" (Corbin) describes a theophany of cognitive recalibration or reintegration, restoring the hidden concordance mediating between inner and outer, visible and invisible, and exoteric and esoteric worlds.
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Fascinating, isn't it, the unitive diversity and universality of the recognition. Rohr: "If it's true, it has to be true everywhere." Panikkar: "We are constitutively one - not only because the whole universe can penetrate us, but also because we can permeate all of reality." Quote tweet: 1/6 🧵"Nothing is more injurious to immediate experience than cognition," noted Jung, echoing a universal planetary refrain delineating the deeper ground of a supreme aspect of being independent of encapsulation in any ‘a priori’ scheme of ideas, conceptions, or ideologies. 2/ If not unity, what do we 'see' then? As a rule, an identification with the distinctions and divisions of materialist and religious logic; the forms, concepts, rationalizations and, ultimately, caricatures of reality co-existent with fallacies of ontological detachment.
Open original documentOur role, the plot. Yasutami Roshi: "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." Thom Keating: "The fundamental illusion of the human condition is the notion that God is absent." Paula D'Arcy: "God comes to us disguised as our life."
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Khan: “Both observer and observed are projections of an underlying, single reality, traditionally called God. Ponder upon this thought.” Cheetham: "The fundamental unity of the faculties of human cognition and the world to which they give access is the eternal pagan substrate." 'We see the world as we are, not as it is,' is an ancient insight, common to global wisdom traditions. But oft credited to Rabbi Shemuel ben Nachmani in the Talmudic tractate, Berakhot. What truly matters? We ourselves may access the transfigurative alchemy such insight empowers. Image with calligraphy: Frankly, when you see things contemplatively, everything in the universe is a mirror. Only with this second gaze, of love, is the transformation process personally initiated and finally achieved.