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Living in a time of war and wars, it behooves us to get a bigger perspective. An awareness of history helps with that, as does an
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Living in a time of war and wars, it behooves us to get a bigger perspective. An awareness of history helps with that, as does an

D H Lawrence explains what was lost in our souls when we lost Father Sky. What a catastrophe, what a maiming of life when it

We meditated yesterday on radiance, another word for doxa or glory or the Cosmic Christ. It is found, according to Hildegard in all things. (Today’s science also

Yesterday we considered St. Augustine’s role in establishing the introspective conscience of the West at the expense of the idea of divinization as taught in Eastern Christianity.

Frederick Turner, in his important study of the history of the Americas from the point of view of Native Americans, Beyond Geography, points out that ours

The ancient Christian hymn from Philippians celebrates the rejoicing of the entire cosmos: “All beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld,” reverence

Not only the Eastern religions Marcel refers to, but also Earth-based religions of the West, such as ancient Native American traditions and modern nature-mystic faiths

Aquinas, like most indigenous and pre-modern thinkers, and unlike the human-centered philosophers of the modern and industrial era, begins his philosophy with the universe. Our

In yesterday’s DM we spoke of reintroducing a sense of the cosmos. To say that we need to “reintroduce” is to say that we have lost the

Reintroducing a cosmic awareness to the way we look at the world and develop our work worlds and institutions is basic to our survival as
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