According to Heidegger’s
approach to Being
God is not a concept
not a transcendent
Creator-God
but an activity in the world
a Self-Giving Presence.
All mystics agree
there is no magical/mythical Being
who transcends the world
but there is Infinite Consciousness
in the world.
According to Augustine
the wicked try to flee from God
but God is everywhere
God never abandons the wicked.
In particular
God, Infinite Consciousness
is meant to Be
“I Am” in the Church
the Beloved Community
born of Spirit, born of people
a Sacrament of Divine Liberation.
Although the anti-Paul
author of Timothy I and II
wrote that women
were to be silent, silenced in church
St. Thecla, second century celibate-ascetic
and Church-Leader
was more popular than the Virgin.
Dualistic, black-and-white thinking
separating soul (good) from body (bad)
always made men uncomfortable
with women’s bodies and sexuality
but feminist theologians now
have reappropriated Wisdom
as Co-Creator at work in human bodies
to create right relationships
and they see God desires
daily intimacy, daily communion
with God’s Beloved People
and daily intimacy with Beloved God
and Beloved Community
is the foundation of spiritual life.
Christians and Buddhists
mindlessly practicing rituals
find little joy because
humans are meant to be
evolution becoming aware of itself,
Infinite Consciousness
becoming mindful.
Like Hindu, Buddhist and Taoist mystics
scientists now see the universe
as a unified web.
Like a spider’s web
shimmering in the sun after rain
God has caught scientists
in God’s web of life.
No longer pure observers
they now see everything
not as objects or idols
but as icons
of God’s Infinite Consciousness.
They now can see
Brother Sun and Sister Moon
and all things as
One Cosmic Family.
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