David a very interesting article. However, my problem with process theology is our afterlife.If our
goal is salvation/eternity, Whitehead nor Hawthorn(sp?) gave hope for us-me being an 83 year old!
I too am a Panentheist, but follow the metaphysics of Meister Eckhart:
One Soul,two parts. The lower "time"; the upper "eternity." I through meditation try reaching divinity
by igniting the "spark"/intuitive awareness(the divine image of God?) in my sole. I do feel the Presence in most of my "centering prayer" endeavors. Now!
That video was one of the best things I’ve ever heard a human say in my life. God is definitely a poet. I didn’t know there was a name for what I have been working on my whole life “the frame problem”. I think I might have solved it in my latest book. The intelligibility of the universe is absolutely an astounding thing to truly thoughtful people. There’s no question that there is a larger mind at work. I wrote 100 pages about the absolutely beautiful and complex symphony of symbolism of cosmic patterns and the basic character of creation in the structure and form, shape and color of the human eye: “Eye of God: Language of Universal Mind”. The meaning crisis is like the rootless trees in Minecraft—humans build language and culture detached from the roots and origins, and it becomes a matrix of dead metaphors—levers we press like rats in self-made cages. The symbol of a tree, the consciousness-directing value of it-shows us who WE are. Our roots are symbolized in the tree. But like meaning and beauty require full context, the tree in-context as a structure emerging from a sphere with the sun above, growing eternally toward the sun. That’s who you are.
Very beautifully expressed. Process theology is gorgeous when described well. Also, the Philip Goff book "Why" is wonderful. I loved it, and quoted from it extensively in one part of my dissertation (soon to be a book). It's all intriguing and is hilarious in a few places.
My experience has shown me that if we are to come closer to understanding God, the divine poet, the tragic poet, we need to also understand false gods - that which is generating the image of the divine dictator, vying for our attention, feeding the hubris, and distracting us from our own divinity.
David a very interesting article. However, my problem with process theology is our afterlife.If our
goal is salvation/eternity, Whitehead nor Hawthorn(sp?) gave hope for us-me being an 83 year old!
I too am a Panentheist, but follow the metaphysics of Meister Eckhart:
One Soul,two parts. The lower "time"; the upper "eternity." I through meditation try reaching divinity
by igniting the "spark"/intuitive awareness(the divine image of God?) in my sole. I do feel the Presence in most of my "centering prayer" endeavors. Now!
That video was one of the best things I’ve ever heard a human say in my life. God is definitely a poet. I didn’t know there was a name for what I have been working on my whole life “the frame problem”. I think I might have solved it in my latest book. The intelligibility of the universe is absolutely an astounding thing to truly thoughtful people. There’s no question that there is a larger mind at work. I wrote 100 pages about the absolutely beautiful and complex symphony of symbolism of cosmic patterns and the basic character of creation in the structure and form, shape and color of the human eye: “Eye of God: Language of Universal Mind”. The meaning crisis is like the rootless trees in Minecraft—humans build language and culture detached from the roots and origins, and it becomes a matrix of dead metaphors—levers we press like rats in self-made cages. The symbol of a tree, the consciousness-directing value of it-shows us who WE are. Our roots are symbolized in the tree. But like meaning and beauty require full context, the tree in-context as a structure emerging from a sphere with the sun above, growing eternally toward the sun. That’s who you are.
Very beautifully expressed. Process theology is gorgeous when described well. Also, the Philip Goff book "Why" is wonderful. I loved it, and quoted from it extensively in one part of my dissertation (soon to be a book). It's all intriguing and is hilarious in a few places.
My experience has shown me that if we are to come closer to understanding God, the divine poet, the tragic poet, we need to also understand false gods - that which is generating the image of the divine dictator, vying for our attention, feeding the hubris, and distracting us from our own divinity.