Fr. Pierre

                                             Not a Photo of Fr. Pierre de Chardin

I do not have a photo of the Jesuit scientist / philosopher, so I figured the above might do... Fr. Pierre wrote these lines in his meditation The Mass on The World: Now, Lord, through the consecration of the world the luminosity and fragrance which suffuse the universe take on for me the lineaments of a body and a face -- in you... Fr. Pierre was a "world mystic", in tune within the depths of his mind and heart with the evolutionary thrust of the Universe, of Consciousness, and of Life Itself to grow, to reach, to explore, and to strive "upward" into a deepening and growing self-awareness: up to and including the utter transformation of that which we identify as matter, mind, and soul into a Divine Unity: the personal trans-substantiated into Divinity Itself in a mutual in-dwelling...

Fr. Pierre's mystic vision, compared to the "tiddly-wink" thought of, say, people like Putin and Trump, is hopeful to the "nth" degree... In other words, we are not meant for the very, incredibly, small-mindedness and soul-stultifying actions and words of either Trump or Putin. We are all worth so much more! Which brings me around to the question that I have in mind: what is it that you are reading now?

I'm reading, once again, Fr. Pierre's Hymn of the Universe... and especially praying Nan Merrill's Psalms for Praying, Yogananda's Whispers from Eternity, and Prayers of the Cosmos by Neil Douglas-Klotz... The point being, in the "little portion" way of life, we must do all that we can for the well-being of everyone and the entire Planet. Sometimes, it's little other than holding well-being in one's heart, sort of like a wave of blessing flowing out from your heart to touch in peace everyone and everything... other times it's getting arrested for civil disobedience in protesting for peace, justice, food, equality, water, and homes for everyone...

​What are you reading? What are you doing?