My Precious!
Every fan of "The Lord of the Rings", movie and book, will recognize the "lost" person of "Gollum"... In many ways, are we not also "lost"? Are we not "lost" both as a collective humanity and as individual persons? Are we not tearing our world asunder through the adoration of the accumulation of great wealth? Are we not tearing our world asunder by our silly -- yet catastrophic -- religious games of "saved" versus "unsaved", "righteous" versus "unrighteous", and "us" versus "them"? Are we not tearing our world asunder by our justifications for endless war and ignoring the science of climate change? Do not the words of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ring stunningly true, "Humanity is being taken to the point where it will have to choose between suicide or adoration"?
Great and original thinkers as Rev. Matthew Fox and Andrew Harvey have pointed out that the root of our religious / cultural "criminality" lies in the theologies that would have us submit to the idea that we are not "gifts of original blessing"... That we do not -- automatically as human beings -- possess a "transcendental nature" and are meant to grow in spiritual wisdom... Fox and Harvey insist that we are not, fundamentally, refugees from original sin! That neither you nor I are the result of random "natural causes or historical effects" (however much we might be living under a web of theological machinations for power "over" rather than power "for our liberation"). Instead, that we, each one of us, have been marvelously made, always for some truly great end...
The combination of spiritual humility and a certain "mystic" awareness compels a radical mindfulness -- at least on occasion. Here are the very potent and rEvolutionary words of Simone Weil: "We have been made by Love, for Love, to become Love." Or, as it is written in the Bhagavad Gita, "You are very much loved by Me." Or as Jesus himself said, "Love one another as I have loved you." Perhaps we cannot stop either the theologians or the spiritual bosses from insisting upon our sinful nature, but we can stop our belief that they know something that we don't! Love is who we are and the meaning and purpose of our lives!
Being born a human being is to be born into an infinite possibility, an invisible radiance, and an irreversible reality: our essential nature is as "my precious"! It is the revelation of "namaste": the Divine in me adores the Divine in you! Everyday, we exist in the potential vivification of our humanity into "sublime lovers"! There is a "Quantum Consciousness" unfolding Itself in physical manifestation right before our eyes: It is the "PHI", the Divine Proportion, interweaving consciousness and matter into an Explicit Delight! And! And we have the potential, at every moment of our lives, to "change our minds" and to go from life as infantile egos, to becoming an adult blessing: and to live as gifts of love in our families, in our communities, and in the One Community of Humanity... living in such a way so as to a blessing upon those who will be alive seven generations from now!
There is no better strategy for living, or for social change, then that of striving to become the world's greatest lover. Revelation is very precisely this. How can we claim to love our children if we do not bless them with a livable Planet? How can we claim any sort of religious faith if we are spiteful and hateful, prejudiced and bigoted, and unjust and violent? Doesn't it seem to you that this little blog just might be true? And that perhaps, perhaps the Universe and the Divine Beloved are screaming out with all the gusto and provable radiance that they can, just to awaken you into the utter delight of living as "My precious!"? And passing it on in your religion, in your politics, in your economics, and in your cultures...
Every fan of "The Lord of the Rings", movie and book, will recognize the "lost" person of "Gollum"... In many ways, are we not also "lost"? Are we not "lost" both as a collective humanity and as individual persons? Are we not tearing our world asunder through the adoration of the accumulation of great wealth? Are we not tearing our world asunder by our silly -- yet catastrophic -- religious games of "saved" versus "unsaved", "righteous" versus "unrighteous", and "us" versus "them"? Are we not tearing our world asunder by our justifications for endless war and ignoring the science of climate change? Do not the words of Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ring stunningly true, "Humanity is being taken to the point where it will have to choose between suicide or adoration"?
Great and original thinkers as Rev. Matthew Fox and Andrew Harvey have pointed out that the root of our religious / cultural "criminality" lies in the theologies that would have us submit to the idea that we are not "gifts of original blessing"... That we do not -- automatically as human beings -- possess a "transcendental nature" and are meant to grow in spiritual wisdom... Fox and Harvey insist that we are not, fundamentally, refugees from original sin! That neither you nor I are the result of random "natural causes or historical effects" (however much we might be living under a web of theological machinations for power "over" rather than power "for our liberation"). Instead, that we, each one of us, have been marvelously made, always for some truly great end...
The combination of spiritual humility and a certain "mystic" awareness compels a radical mindfulness -- at least on occasion. Here are the very potent and rEvolutionary words of Simone Weil: "We have been made by Love, for Love, to become Love." Or, as it is written in the Bhagavad Gita, "You are very much loved by Me." Or as Jesus himself said, "Love one another as I have loved you." Perhaps we cannot stop either the theologians or the spiritual bosses from insisting upon our sinful nature, but we can stop our belief that they know something that we don't! Love is who we are and the meaning and purpose of our lives!
Being born a human being is to be born into an infinite possibility, an invisible radiance, and an irreversible reality: our essential nature is as "my precious"! It is the revelation of "namaste": the Divine in me adores the Divine in you! Everyday, we exist in the potential vivification of our humanity into "sublime lovers"! There is a "Quantum Consciousness" unfolding Itself in physical manifestation right before our eyes: It is the "PHI", the Divine Proportion, interweaving consciousness and matter into an Explicit Delight! And! And we have the potential, at every moment of our lives, to "change our minds" and to go from life as infantile egos, to becoming an adult blessing: and to live as gifts of love in our families, in our communities, and in the One Community of Humanity... living in such a way so as to a blessing upon those who will be alive seven generations from now!
There is no better strategy for living, or for social change, then that of striving to become the world's greatest lover. Revelation is very precisely this. How can we claim to love our children if we do not bless them with a livable Planet? How can we claim any sort of religious faith if we are spiteful and hateful, prejudiced and bigoted, and unjust and violent? Doesn't it seem to you that this little blog just might be true? And that perhaps, perhaps the Universe and the Divine Beloved are screaming out with all the gusto and provable radiance that they can, just to awaken you into the utter delight of living as "My precious!"? And passing it on in your religion, in your politics, in your economics, and in your cultures...
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