In Heidegger’s concept of “Being”
God is no concept
no transcendent Creator-God
but Activity in the World
Self-Giving Presence.
All mystics agree
no magical/mythical Being
totally transcends the world
but Infinite Consciousness
lives in the world
in community, in peoples’
joys and sorrows.
Augustine sees
the wicked try to flee
God
who is everywhere –
God the One
who never abandons the wicked
in their sin and sorrow.
Infinite Consciousness
is Being
“I Am” in Church
Beloved Community
born of Spirit, born of humans
Sacrament of Divine Liberation.
Although the anti-Paul
in Timothy I and II
wrote women into silence
in Church
St. Thecla, second century celibate-ascetic
Church-Leader
was more popular than the Virgin.
Black-and-White thinking
separating soul (good) from body (bad)
made men uncomfortable
with women’s bodies and sexuality
but feminist theologians see
Wisdom as Co-Creator
working in female (and male) bodies
creating right relationships.
Womanist theologians see
God and God’s desires
in daily intimacy, daily communion
with God’s Beloved People
the Everlasting Rock of the spiritual life.
Christians and Buddhists
mindlessly practicing rituals
find little joy
because human meaning
is evolution becoming aware of itself,
Infinite Consciousness
becoming mindful.
Like Hindu and Taoist mystics
scientists now open their eyes
and see the universe for the first time
as a unified web.
Like a spider’s web
shimmering in the sun after rain
God catches scientists
in the web of life.
No longer pure observers
scientists now see everything
not as objects or idols
but as icons
of Infinite Consciousness
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
and all things
dancing in
One Cosmic Family.
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