By Andrew Brown — 2012
Moses should be seen not as a historical figure, but a charter for a new regime in which people live under God, not king.
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Thinking more explicitly about cultural catalysis can help to accomplish in years what otherwise would require decades or not take place at all. As we experiment with cultural catalysis, we need to make it fast and benign rather than fast and pathological for the common good.
If you had a conventional biological education, then you were taught that evolution is not a conscious process. How very 20th Century.
To be watched is to feel the expectation of the watcher. The driver is more careful with a police car behind, the high school athlete more adept with the cheerleader on the sideline, every performance heightened once there is an audience. To be seen is to behave differently.
We are living in the midst of several major crises, including the environment and the institutional church. Does academic theology play a role here as well? Well, yes. As co-creators, we can begin to resolve some of the problems by better integrating theology and science.
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A very good friend of mine periodically asks me: Why do you believe that we are evolving in a positive way? Why do you believe that our consciousness is developing toward greater complexity, inclusivity and unity?
An obscure Jesuit priest, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, set down the philosophical framework for planetary, Net-based consciousness 50 years ago.
Anthony McWatt explores the philosophical ideas underlying the culture-changing 1970s blockbuster Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The biblical story of Moses resonates strongly today.
Are we doomed to live in conflicting states of awareness and remain unable to find common ground for understanding? Not necessarily.
Why bother to heal the world if—as Conversations with God declares—everything is perfect just the way it is?