This is lovely David. I like the idea that we are elegantly entangled in stories, all of which are perfectly inaccurate and do not stop or begin at the borders of what we take to be ourselves. I appreciate the leadership you demonstrate by consistently suggesting we use the study of story to trace the movement of spirit, and how you consistently acknowledge the inner cognitive resistance we're likely to experience when attempting to embrace non-linear perspectives. It strikes me that the linear and non-linear, our unity and individuality, are designed to work together. The roots of a tree system apparently reflect the approximate span of the canopy. As above, so below. If we want to embrace the dissolution of a solid identity and claim our connectedness, we also need an equally strong and stable sense of individual self. We have to grow in both directions; becoming a middle-world, responsible and functional individual with healthy boundaries and personal agency as the necessary foundation for letting go and merging—energetically—with all of humanity and the rest of existence. It seems easier to fall into one camp or the other than it is to do both at the same time, but embracing both disciplines is what allows the highest expression of both the spiritual and temporal.
This is my current favorite benefit of the Substack platform and interacting with you, Rick. You reflect back what your understanding of my writing is, and then it goes deeper. I love this picture of both. This is what Jon Dunns Scotis was talking about, I believe. We are at once an individual and everything. We are ourselves as well as the body of God. The wave and the sea. But they thought he was a fool for this idea. Thus the phrase dunce (dunns). For me, this makes the most sense of any picture of reality.
This is lovely David. I like the idea that we are elegantly entangled in stories, all of which are perfectly inaccurate and do not stop or begin at the borders of what we take to be ourselves. I appreciate the leadership you demonstrate by consistently suggesting we use the study of story to trace the movement of spirit, and how you consistently acknowledge the inner cognitive resistance we're likely to experience when attempting to embrace non-linear perspectives. It strikes me that the linear and non-linear, our unity and individuality, are designed to work together. The roots of a tree system apparently reflect the approximate span of the canopy. As above, so below. If we want to embrace the dissolution of a solid identity and claim our connectedness, we also need an equally strong and stable sense of individual self. We have to grow in both directions; becoming a middle-world, responsible and functional individual with healthy boundaries and personal agency as the necessary foundation for letting go and merging—energetically—with all of humanity and the rest of existence. It seems easier to fall into one camp or the other than it is to do both at the same time, but embracing both disciplines is what allows the highest expression of both the spiritual and temporal.
This is my current favorite benefit of the Substack platform and interacting with you, Rick. You reflect back what your understanding of my writing is, and then it goes deeper. I love this picture of both. This is what Jon Dunns Scotis was talking about, I believe. We are at once an individual and everything. We are ourselves as well as the body of God. The wave and the sea. But they thought he was a fool for this idea. Thus the phrase dunce (dunns). For me, this makes the most sense of any picture of reality.
agreed. and had no idea of the origins of "dunce" - but now feeling proud to be one.