@ThinkingFaith Might entanglement supply the bridge here? The relationship between Creator and Creation takes incarnate form within our entanglement in creation: a vertical relation disclosed and lived through the horizontal bonds by which creatures become, sustain and answer for one another.
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Ignatius is not given to horticultural imagery, but he is aware that everything begins with and leads to the shape of the relationship between Creator and Creation. Contemporary pedagogies? The Inayatiyya's Ziraat (meaning 'agriculture') concentration, specifically articulates a horticultural/agrarian paradigm as inner path. Meanwhile, the 'paradise gardening' or 'spiritual agriculture' movement sublimates the esoteric-exoteric distinction.
6/ Every collapse unveils the alternative. Incarnation is apocalypse—love unveiled as the law of reality. Empire is unmasked, solidarity revealed, and history itself bent toward liberation. Entanglement is exposed as the condition of being itself.
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Speaking of noncoincidence, my Cloud of the Impossible hosts a dense discussion of quantum entanglement, involving Barad and several other physicists who might count as new materialists in their push beyond the mechanical immanence of the old materialism. Here let me just note that the quantum nonlocality hints at a spatiotemporality of such unfathomably—and instantaneously—interlaced becomings as to demand theological contemplation. What flashes up with messianic incipience exposes a mysticalbottomlessness, Jewish and more. The resonance with Karen Barad’s innovative language of “intra-active becomings” is striking. She has composed—drawing on a later, and largely Continental philosophy—a full-fledged “relational ontology” as the basis for her “posthumanist account of material bodies.” These bodies do not appear as classical agents, merely interacting with their objects from the outside. “Rather, phenomena are the ontological inseparability/entanglement of intra-acting ‘agencies.
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In other words, immanence would signify an agential mutuality of intra-action—not that of mere interaction between preexistent entities. For the actual entity takes place in the moment, the spacetime, of the becoming. This is different from immanence understood as an identity of all, or as a totality, or even as a single encompassing ‘within’ of the world. Its relational spatiality is itself being constituted moment by moment, here and there, everywhere. Only abstractions of itself can form a vessel-like immanence that would “contain” all becomings. So there would be actually nothing, or nothing actual, beyond this immanence. In this sense an immanence of mutual entanglement is more radical —more elementally constitutive—than an immanence of unitary inclusion, or of total identity, which would always already transcend its constituents. The Whiteheadian theology no more resembles such a unitary immanence than it does the opposite of a dualist transcendence.