@Plough @PeterMommsen What if religion was a phase of mediation, not the final grammar? A means, over time, mistaken for end. Perhaps a genuine "after religion" arrives as exposure of forms that can no longer hold the weight of what they were carrying. Presence ultimately too dense to be contained.
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John 10:10 states it. Embody the Way and we become more fully tethered to the immanent historical dynamism of a theo-drama transforming all of created reality, and to a harvest of meaning surpassing the experiential poverty that fails to explain the very engagement it longs for. 1/ No wonder the advent of a global, moral fusion movement remains occulted to mindsets defined by political and religious parochialism. Its version of perception and liberating activity so fully casts irrelevancy upon dominative secular and religious worldviews. 2/ In practice, seeing through a catastrophically diminished self-image of materialist and religious fetishism opens us to a life superseding the draconian limitations of a conventional way of processing reality constricted to a shadow of its co-creative powers and potential. 9/ Please don’t let self-appointed cultural arbiters blindly & unwaveringly invested in a caricature of realism, fool you, friends. Simply because most of us have succumbed to a vast, culturally-commanded dark night of sleep, doesn’t make this, Our Paradigm Shift, any less Real. 10/ Yes, away from the levels of reality well-lit by ‘the Expert State’, beyond the turmoil, controversy, bewilderment and totalizing freefall of a dominative epistemology and all that it sustains and disfigures in our eyes, our common Story evolves. Surely, you've heard? 3/ This, not some form of cheap universalism, rather a planetary reckoning with a Wholeness transcending supremacist epistemologies and their full-spectrum dominance over the moral and ontological imagination and “the infrastructure of all religions and all cultures.” (Girard) end/ Modernity? An isolated, isolating, fiercely constructed and constricted Story, predisposing us to the madness of a control complex gone mad for the illusion of separateness. Elsewhere? A horizon of hope and its earth-bound promise of planetary resurrection into eternal life. Quote tweet: 31/ The Kingdom is not a fixed arrival but an intensification of presence. This is the eschaton as co-creation: not spectacle to behold, but fidelity enfleshed. The Reign of God arises not from ideology, but from entangled communion. Incarnational integration in motion
Open original document@being_on_line @bratton @NoemaMag 6/ Moreover, sophisticated analysis doesn’t imply 4th-wall perspective. Media ecology reminds us that that 'neutral description' often encodes a ground-state metaphysics leaving upstream conditions of perception—ontology, sense-making, world-modeling—entirely uninterrogated.
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