RT @nick_routledge: @LMSacasas By the same token, goodness becomes historically real because somebody does it. Each faithful enactment shapes the world and gives the good ontological traction, breaking evil’s historical enclosure of the possible and releasing reality’s own redemptive causality within it.
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1/ Positive, grounded responses addressing those specific concerns are well in hand, frankly. Our primary challenge is a majoritarian sense of significance powerfully vested in dominant narratives, and the threat of personal salvation as apocalyptic as the doom that hounds us. 2/ Given the epic personal challenge a genuine response to this mystery implies, is it any wonder the routine of a known but essentially unlived life holds so many of us in its predictable yet paralyzed thrall? The very way we see must end as another version of the world ensues. Quote tweet: Ya gotta start. The territory of homecoming, already spread out among us, awaits a personal invocation. It will not come by waiting for it. 'In order to inherit your freedom, you need to go toward it.' McKenna: "The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer." "Everyone seems to be waiting: waiting for the villains to be exposed; for justice to be done; for government to be changed; for climate science to be urgently acted upon; for Truth to be spoken and acted upon; for a tidal shift in human morality and higher consciousness; for a whole systems transition to a global culture of peace; for spiritual values to prevail. We wait as if the future will save us but the toxicity grows while we wait and the present is immobilized by endless commentary on our predicament as we sit on every possible solution to our multiple crises. And yet somehow we will become what we are waiting for if we put more than a toe in the water of real change and transformation and if we give it an almighty shove of creativity.” - James O'Dea
Open original document@pauljpastor The Messianic says something more radical: the present order cannot reform itself. What’s required is not abandoning action, but ceasing to wait on the system to save what it inherently cannot. Something else is needed: a different order entirely—already here, not yet inhabited.
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