Tag: symbiosis
member name: Sylvester Steffen
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August 23, 2006 03:58 AM EDT --
Individually, we are subjects/objects of natural, successful evolution, outcomes of symbiosis. Symbiosis is a process of reason even as reason is a process of symbiosis; they are end/means to each . . . more
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August 29, 2006 12:14 PM EDT --
From experience we know we are of many minds, some that pursue the nobler purposes of consciousness and some that succumb to lesser ones. Institutions like individuals labor under the . . . more
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October 31, 2006 04:48 AM EST --
The word "love" is flippantly bandied about. Love is publicly trashed and desecrated. But what does love really mean? Surely a life-style . . . more
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January 03, 2007 11:04 AM EST --
If the many crises of our time can be conflated into a single phrase it is the phrase “crisis of conscience”. Because of universal ecological/environmental degradations, the global . . . more
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February 18, 2007 02:57 AM EST --
Analogies are important tools of learning; they reveal the likenesses and connections of things. By way of analogies we come to enlightenment. By understanding likenesses and connections, knowledge enlarges . . . more
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July 21, 2006 01:24 AM EDT --
We are emergent people embedded in patterns of the transformational cosmos and evolving life. We are not today what we were yesterday and we are not tomorrow what we are today. The hopefulness . . . more
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September 02, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
Walter Brueggemann has made the connection of ecological wasting (sin against the God/ Land/ Human Covenant) and the exploitation of women:
“…Adam, that is, mankind, has a partner and mate, . . . more
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September 20, 2007 05:21 AM EDT --
The political/ religious/ cultural paradigm of a discredited worldview no longer works in a new world order. Case in point is the static worldview (SWV) and the evolutionary worldview (EWV).
It is the . . . more
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May 31, 2006 04:22 AM EDT --
6. God/Land-Woman/Man Trust
Old Covenant Scripture is a story about infidelity and woe, and about fidelity and weal. Prophet after prophet is rejected because (s)he confronts the inauthenticity . . . more
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October 07, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
Deep down, evolution and devolution are wave/particle dance, the rhythmic process of creation unfolding—sometimes pretty and sometimes…not so pretty—but always awesome. . . . more
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July 28, 2007 09:58 AM EDT --
The joined offensive of dominion theology and imperial politics is lethal. Indeed, by culture and genetic hard-wiring, male domination continues to be a mortal threat to personal/social wellbeing. The . . . more
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May 19, 2006 03:50 AM EDT --
panic tubaing
in frantic wilderness - moose
calls the rising sun
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July 11, 2006 04:31 AM EDT --
From personal experience we know that life originates within and is sustained in the continuum of cosmic energy. At the same time we experience . . . more
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September 17, 2006 07:03 PM EDT --
The ambivalent experience of transformation burdens even the gradual unfolding of life's mysteries. Experiences of good and evil implicate the unfolding of the mystery and the plan of nature. Natural . . . more
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February 06, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
In the pursuit of “truth”, Enlightenment and Religion come together. Universal (catholic) Religion is a “universal call” - vocation. The universal “call” for every person, . . . more
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May 21, 2007 05:48 AM EDT --
In his great little big book “Evening Thoughts” (2006, Sierra Club Books) Thomas Berry exposes “six transcendences” which have put humankind and Earth-life in epochal crisis. . . . more
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July 18, 2007 10:48 AM EDT --
The Knights Templar was the pope’s army, which fought the wars of the Crusades. This episode in history is with profound repercussions to global civilizations and the Roman Catholic Church, even . . . more
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March 16, 2008 02:55 AM EDT --
As to the status of women in cultural history, there is indeed a long train of philosophical/ theological thinking back into the deep past of consciousness by which thought advances the ascendancy of . . . more
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July 24, 2006 01:53 PM EDT --
This dictum is an anciently assumed basis of theological reasoning. It has its origins in the intuitions of evolutionary consciousness. What it says basically is that nature, cosmic . . . more
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September 20, 2006 02:38 AM EDT --
If she's said it once she's said it a thousand times, the incomparable value of learning! At age 75 my wife Felicitas is a retired teacher known to hundreds of her students as . . . more
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