@FrancoKanafani @Plough @PeterMommsen You're right. "Mystery exceeds formulation" is old news. But "most ordinary religious people" avoids the institutional and doctrinal question entirely. The question isn't what believers subjectively understand. It's about structural capacity—what the forms themselves can bear.
end/ Ultimately, salvation is not reason taming insanity. "Madness" is in the saddle anyhow—the total mystery of existence refusing domestication. The question is which madness we inhabit: the world’s derangement, or "the folly of a universal unveiling" that quietly outbids it. x.com/nick_routledge1/status/2003163006432334257
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Alt-text-Mystery Sept 12 2022 1/ And so it goes that the raging battle between science and religion is ultimately transcended in common acknowledgement of reality as not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine. Irony of ironies: wisdom harmonizes, as one, into increased bewilderment! Sept 12 2022 2/ At the point where mature science and mature religion reconcile, the old idea of Reality as a concept to be grasped is discarded, like worn out luggage. What does it mean to us, when the Great Mystery assumes its proper place at the heart of our understanding and world. Painting with calligraphy reading: Mystery does not refer to a meaning we don't understand. It is what is too full and deep with meaning for minds as limited as ours to grasp. Accept that we exist, ultimately, in a cloud of unknowing, beyond intellectual or psychological versions of truth and security. Give up having to know or be certain. Live into the direction and meaningfulness of a Oneness too immense to be held. Let go to a personal and planetary genius and destiny transcending the limits of our individualities. Surrender to a deeper communion with life itself, opening to us as a pathway into greater mystery. Poor People’s Campaign
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