Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@PloughBooks 1/12 What the article names so well is the wound: Vincent went to India seeking escape from Western religious-political pathology, only to find religion and power entangled there too. But S. Asia also preserves a deeper current: practice as liberation, inward and public at once.

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"For those who say, 'Don't get political. Stay focused on spiritual things.' 'Loving my neighbor as myself' includes caring about policies that affect my neighbor." Gandhi: "The sphere of Spirit and politics is one." Quote tweets: 2/ This dynamic homeostasis in which inner-and-outer narratives effectively mix and match? The single co-evolutionary realm in which Reality comes to fullness in us, individually and together. The concrete reality of worldly and spiritual salvation, reconciliation and redemption. In the dialectics of Jewish mysticism, the drive outward is essentially considered equal to the inward drive. The re-establishment of all things in their proper place, which constitutes redemption, produces a totality knowing nothing of a division between inwardness and outwardness, ensuring that one does not fall victim to the other. This, the Messianic Moment, is therefore defined by a new ‘architecture of holiness’ as Abraham Joshua Heschel, the modern Jewish sage-prophet, arguably Martin Luther King's greatest non-black ally, refers to it. Personal redemption, a make-believe project. We are whole, finally, only in the kind of co-association empowering its members to be co-creators of a social order in which humankind lives in harmony with one another and all that lives. Until then, we remain victims & victimizers.

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