Also the weirding,in my anecdotal experience, of having phenomenal experiences of “other than human” or a “collective we presence” of some kind naturally destabilizes and decenters an individual which can cause any manner of reactions from a person who has been confined to “ordinary” phenomena their whole life and told by our culture there is nothing more than that.
I don’t think we can think this new thing into existence, or even imagine this new thing into existence though we still must try with our shabby equipment. It seems to me that the situation is such that we essentially have to surrender, and have faith that the deep dynamics of this reality and system are birthing, a new worldview and a new human into being. We must bear witness to it and herald it.
I don’t know what I’m talking about but these are just some thoughts that came up.
I appreciate this article and am
happy to have recently discovered your work. I think you’re onto something and I look forward to seeing your thoughts as they are expressed and developed.
Thanks alistair. I agree that, to a greater degree than we often consider, the "leap" of consciousness we're taking is really the other way around: it's the leap that takes us. Our challenge lies in skillfully embracing this leap - its conditions, energies, realities - that co-initiate us in this time. Tall order, of course. Thanks for stopping by.
Omg, all that convolution but nothing about the context of the Universe Story -- Teilhard to Thomas Berry to Brian Swimme as my favorite contemporary storyteller. That's the new worldview, that I write about, where science is ahead of an outdated creation story that needs to catch up. We have a Newtonian story as if we're on a dead rock, using it, instead of the quantum story that would go along with discoveries Hubble made of being in an expanding universe that's alive. We so fortunate to be the creatures we are, who need behavior that fits our potential to be one humanity creating a wonderful world together.
Hi Suzanne! I'm very much influenced by Teilhard and Berry, and so looking forward to reading Swimme's new book (Cosmogenesis). As you might know, Gebser was a contemporary of Teilhard's, and actively connected his own work with that of Teilhard and Aurobindo's. The connections here are quite potentiating, and the Universe Story is certainly one of *the* stories that opens up a whole new cosmology of time.
Maybe one more thing to add here is that I am very much interested in making more active and conscious connections between Gebser, Teilhard, and Berry in my academic work: I'm a doctoral student at PCC, where Swimme teaches, and our integral ecology track draws deeply from the well of Berry's writing.
More on all this as this series continues. Thanks for stopping by.
I'm signed up for you and hopefully you get my mailings. If not, sign up: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/about. What's going out tomorrow is right up this alley of the need for a new worldview! Not so many people on Substack who are tuned into this and we can be allies here informing the others ---somehow. I haven't figure out how to conversation going and you haven't either but perhaps we can help each other.
Also the weirding,in my anecdotal experience, of having phenomenal experiences of “other than human” or a “collective we presence” of some kind naturally destabilizes and decenters an individual which can cause any manner of reactions from a person who has been confined to “ordinary” phenomena their whole life and told by our culture there is nothing more than that.
I don’t think we can think this new thing into existence, or even imagine this new thing into existence though we still must try with our shabby equipment. It seems to me that the situation is such that we essentially have to surrender, and have faith that the deep dynamics of this reality and system are birthing, a new worldview and a new human into being. We must bear witness to it and herald it.
I don’t know what I’m talking about but these are just some thoughts that came up.
I appreciate this article and am
happy to have recently discovered your work. I think you’re onto something and I look forward to seeing your thoughts as they are expressed and developed.
Thanks alistair. I agree that, to a greater degree than we often consider, the "leap" of consciousness we're taking is really the other way around: it's the leap that takes us. Our challenge lies in skillfully embracing this leap - its conditions, energies, realities - that co-initiate us in this time. Tall order, of course. Thanks for stopping by.
Of course people are scared of it as it demands a letting go of the self our culture has told us is all there is.
Omg, all that convolution but nothing about the context of the Universe Story -- Teilhard to Thomas Berry to Brian Swimme as my favorite contemporary storyteller. That's the new worldview, that I write about, where science is ahead of an outdated creation story that needs to catch up. We have a Newtonian story as if we're on a dead rock, using it, instead of the quantum story that would go along with discoveries Hubble made of being in an expanding universe that's alive. We so fortunate to be the creatures we are, who need behavior that fits our potential to be one humanity creating a wonderful world together.
Hi Suzanne! I'm very much influenced by Teilhard and Berry, and so looking forward to reading Swimme's new book (Cosmogenesis). As you might know, Gebser was a contemporary of Teilhard's, and actively connected his own work with that of Teilhard and Aurobindo's. The connections here are quite potentiating, and the Universe Story is certainly one of *the* stories that opens up a whole new cosmology of time.
Maybe one more thing to add here is that I am very much interested in making more active and conscious connections between Gebser, Teilhard, and Berry in my academic work: I'm a doctoral student at PCC, where Swimme teaches, and our integral ecology track draws deeply from the well of Berry's writing.
More on all this as this series continues. Thanks for stopping by.
Here's my post where I read the end of Cosmogenesis: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/p/music-to-our-ears.
I'm signed up for you and hopefully you get my mailings. If not, sign up: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/about. What's going out tomorrow is right up this alley of the need for a new worldview! Not so many people on Substack who are tuned into this and we can be allies here informing the others ---somehow. I haven't figure out how to conversation going and you haven't either but perhaps we can help each other.