Before crossing the threshold of interspiritual there is an invocation with undertones of deep bows to wu wei, the path, the Way. I Am … grateful for this moment to see a crack within the phenomenal rising and passing away of existence, through which now I step.
Two steps or philosophical propositions on the way: Moreover, as a member of interspirituality.com, there are two major intentions that I share with each and every one of you; 1. All reference to “I” is nondual and as signified being, sufficiently personal, yet not necessarily personal. For illustrative means, Martin Buber’s I-Thou best depicts our personal relatedness, while Ramana Maharshi’s I-I best elicits the dynamic extropy of human potential via self-transcendence evolving consciousness to nonpersonal relatedness or absolute bliss of pure consciousness. 2. All reference to divinity is interdependent with divine energies. For illustrative means, Charles Sanders Peirce, Pierre Teilhardt de Chardin, Bede Griffiths, Bruno Barnhardt and Wayne Teasdale have allowed dialectical panentheism to emerge as evolutionary panentheism, which allows divinity to be in everything without necessarily being co-terminus with everything. Thus, everything is shot through with divinity AND everything has an end, while divinity may or may not end, albeit not at the same end point. Thereby, a reemergence of teleology and ontology accompany the paradigm shift of epistemology from a semiotics point of view and a subsequent semiotic plus epistemology blending into a synchronous epistemological semiotics.
As we now begin, my spirit name is Walks One Step Back or Shuddhachittananda – Bliss of Pure Consciousness. And, my dedication is always for All my relations,
MC
Yes, I agree…and have often thought of how important authentic discussions are in and of themselves. I sometimes think that we have become so immersed in our materialistic culture that even for those of us who don’t subscribe to it, the question often becomes, “How do we make something happen?”, and usually, underlying this, what we mean is how do we make something materialistically happen. We fail to recognize the potency that can occur through a profound engaging with one another on these questions, which requires of course integrating our conversations with the heart space mentioned by Kurt and Matt. These discussions I believe seed our collective mental consciousness (and for me, the mental is not devoid of feelings, quite the opposite actually…every word has a “feeling” behind it, and all of this is involved in our communion).
These experiences ultimately lead to the strengthening of a felt resonate field that is among us. What Jesus called “the kindgom of heaven”. So that having these discussions is, in and of itself, “doing something.” Something quite significant, actually.
One way to think of it is this, creating forums and ways of being able to interact at this depth will itself call forth the visions, collaborations, and structures that are needed, quite naturally. This is what Adam is exploring with HAB right now, what the Snowmass Conference has done so successfully, and what many of us have been trying to create through different formats…and it seems a more open format which allows for great variety, yet also holds an invisible center of gravity, seems to work best…
Yes, this is so important–I will make a general post about recent programs I have been experiencing but wanted to mention here that I saw the immediate recognition people in the large audience we had in Phillie Sat. (Ashok Gangadean and me) when we clearly invited people to move away from I-It (just intellectual discussion in which separation is the inherent paradigm) and moving to I-Thou (which with the Heart and dialogical/ dialectical tone Matt points to above) gets VERY rich. It not only gets very rich but helps people recognize that type of change in discourse that is invited by interspirituality and indeed desparately needed across all kinds of dialogue in the world. We have to believe that it is worth it to just keep disseminating this vision at the grass-roots and assuming it will spread, just like the idea spreading out from the Renaissance changed social structures over the ensuing next 3 centuries. Many folk ask “how can it happen” but certainly the simple integrity and authencity of the discussion itself is key.