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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 meditated on our divinization expressing itself in creativity and birthing. Other people striving to be more human have waxed eloquent about the same realities.
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
Nineteenth-century French poet and translator, Gerard de Nerval, had this to say about the modern consciousness that so readily left out the universe: Free thinker,
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