Intimate With Life

Perhaps there were justifiable reasons for the "spiritual imagineers" of the various religions to question the "worthiness" of our human sexuality and of a kind and gracious relationship with the natural world... but when I read people like Paul, Augustine, the Buddha, and a myriad of others, I am simply repulsed by the "air" of the superiority of maleness and our separation from the natural. It is as if we have all been "framed" by men of tragic faith...

I can't help but wonder at the enlightenment or sanctity of anyone who would minimize the wonder of the female and of the feminine, and of the graciousness of the wild world... Isn't it obvious that without the female and the earth, none of us would be? Of course, it is  also an equal truth to say that without the male and this same earth, none of us would be as well: so why is it so difficult for religionists to complete the circle that they draw? Is it really so simple as religion to be an avenue for power and domination -- and why, in the political world, so many men are fiercely opposed to the proposed Equal Rights Amendment? 

We're in the 21st century, and still the men in power want only to draw their half-circles...

Silly boys should, instead, choose to grow up!

But, like spiritual popcorn, there are, here and there, the "poppings" of a rising human consciousness... I think that the meaning of these "poppings" are, as it were, signs, symbols, and samples of a new stage in our human evolution. I believe that these changes have already been encoded in our DNA and that it has simply been a matter of timing. I believe that we are "rising" into a unity of immanence with transcendence, or as Leonard Cohen wrote: God is Alive, Magic is Afoot. There is this "new now": the deepening of an "unfolding" of the divine within the human and the natural world which will lead to an evolutionary leap into a higher plane of consciousness...

As a specie, we have lived for thousands of years in a state of alienation: male dominating the female, and the human domination over the natural world. This "condition of domination" allows for the extraordinary privilege, profit, and power of a very few over the very many: always justified by supporting and vapid "theologies of separation". But all around us there are the "poppings" of theologies of feminist design, theologies of liberation, and theologies of intimacy with life and the natural world. Indeed, the Sufi axiom that wild nature is our primary Sacred Scripture is helping sweep the collected dust of oppression and conceit off our minds and out of our Holy Books...

The renewed Celtic Christian view of the sacredness of all that is of natural and of Earth; of the liberating power of empathy and compassion; of the Living Light that dwells within everyone and everything; of the essential unity of Spirit and Contemplation; of the divine necessity of nonviolence as our human soul-force; and of the joy of this Journey of Faith is the evidence that we need to commit to a radical new intimacy with Life... We need to consciously leap into intimacy with every aspect of our lives: taking / giving to our lover as a work of art, as the unveiling of a magical Reality... The liberation that we seek from, shall I say "Trumpism", is found in listening intently to the heartbeats of the Divine: in our beds with our lover, in our attention to our daily chores, in our work and professions, in our art, play, and dances, and in our practices of compassion, resistance, and construction of the new world right where we are in the midst of the old...