“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” .- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is, at the heart of an apparently impersonal Universe, a higher participatory Reality which is transpersonal, caring and supportive. The whole process of existence functions like a grand computer program that runs endlessly, encompassing everything which exists or could exist and all the principles by which Existence functions, evolving and improving while re-arranging the furniture of the Cosmos and re-creating in myriad shapes the beauty of new forms. Humans are part of this program, like subroutines of a master program which is alive and making conscious decisions as the whole network learns and grows.
Nature is at once symbiotic and predatory. Ecologies are built on subsystems in which both cooperative and hunter-prey relationships thrive, all working together while simultaneously competing for resources. Plants and animals interact in the dance of life. Even through violent competition for resources and food, the needs of the system are served. To feed her family, lioness kills zebra. While this may seem cruel to the zebra, their predator-prey relationship culls the zebra herd of weaker individuals.
The driving force of this evolutionary program seems geared toward producing beings like you and me, creatures who can walk out under a night sky, ask questions about what it all means, and appreciate the work of mastery unfolding before us. Evolution knows where it is going, as Jesuit scholar Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said. Teilhard believed the very program of the Cosmos is headed toward Union with God:
“Without a doubt, deep down in the most spiritualized zones of our being, certain interior needs subsist which are inexorably forcing us to pursue our forward march. ... Doubling, and little by little relaying the push coming from the bottom, the appearance of an attraction descending from the top reveals itself as organically indispensable for the rest of the operation; --- indispensable for sustaining the vital evolutionary thrust… There can be ...only one kind of Universe ---convergent, [with]---some illumination, some vivifying revelation at the end of the tunnel..." [1]
In other words, Divine Order works in and through the natural order to bring about its creative, dynamic, infinitely diverse expressions. The divine-within is the local articulation of God as artist, creating new beauty and enjoying the adventure of life. We are consumer-packaged theophanies exploring the limitless possibilities available in a Cosmos where free will and divine order interact to “harness for God the energies of love” and reach heights yet unknown.
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[1] http://www.noosphere.cc/tdc1.html
There is, at the heart of an apparently impersonal Universe, a higher participatory Reality which is transpersonal, caring and supportive. The whole process of existence functions like a grand computer program that runs endlessly, encompassing everything which exists or could exist and all the principles by which Existence functions, evolving and improving while re-arranging the furniture of the Cosmos and re-creating in myriad shapes the beauty of new forms. Humans are part of this program, like subroutines of a master program which is alive and making conscious decisions as the whole network learns and grows.
Nature is at once symbiotic and predatory. Ecologies are built on subsystems in which both cooperative and hunter-prey relationships thrive, all working together while simultaneously competing for resources. Plants and animals interact in the dance of life. Even through violent competition for resources and food, the needs of the system are served. To feed her family, lioness kills zebra. While this may seem cruel to the zebra, their predator-prey relationship culls the zebra herd of weaker individuals.
The driving force of this evolutionary program seems geared toward producing beings like you and me, creatures who can walk out under a night sky, ask questions about what it all means, and appreciate the work of mastery unfolding before us. Evolution knows where it is going, as Jesuit scholar Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said. Teilhard believed the very program of the Cosmos is headed toward Union with God:
“Without a doubt, deep down in the most spiritualized zones of our being, certain interior needs subsist which are inexorably forcing us to pursue our forward march. ... Doubling, and little by little relaying the push coming from the bottom, the appearance of an attraction descending from the top reveals itself as organically indispensable for the rest of the operation; --- indispensable for sustaining the vital evolutionary thrust… There can be ...only one kind of Universe ---convergent, [with]---some illumination, some vivifying revelation at the end of the tunnel..." [1]
In other words, Divine Order works in and through the natural order to bring about its creative, dynamic, infinitely diverse expressions. The divine-within is the local articulation of God as artist, creating new beauty and enjoying the adventure of life. We are consumer-packaged theophanies exploring the limitless possibilities available in a Cosmos where free will and divine order interact to “harness for God the energies of love” and reach heights yet unknown.
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[1] http://www.noosphere.cc/tdc1.html
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