Jesus: God is nowhere
exclusively.
But religious power-leaders
maintain vested interest
in (unconscious) dualism:
We (superior) versus them (inferior)
“We have true religion, they don’t.
(Our pay depends on this).”
The Bible: do not fear.
But religious power-leaders
invent code names for fear:
reasonableness, prudence
loyalty, obedience.
Reinhold Niebuhr: sin manifests in
power-pride
intellectual-pride
moral-pride
spiritual-pride:
“I am holier than thou.”
Curia: Church is hierarchical/juridical.
Second Vatican Council Fathers:
Church is historical, dynamic, biblical
vitally alive.
William Johnson: civilization is destroyed
by violence to the feminine:
endless war, rape, oppression of women
slaughter of the unborn
of Mother Earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche: now the horizon of meaning
within which people lived and moved and had their being
now that God
is gone
masculine and feminine mythologies
collide.
Authentic obedience:
grows out of freedom, to hear
make a conscientious decision
and where appropriate, say “no.”
False obedience:
knuckles under out of fear.
Authentic nuns lead the revolution
against curia.
David Bohm: a change is needed:
the Divine Feminine needs to rise
because consciousness
is more fundamental than matter
the unmanifest quantum memory network
builds matter around itself
from molecules to humans –
the unmanifest knits the universe together
like a child in the womb.
Diarmuid O’Murchu: change and decay
surround us
but at the unmanifest quantum level
nothing is ever lost –
continuity in a transformed state
is the rule.
Uncentered people are easily hurt
their lives filled with
drama and tragedy.
Saints are hard to upset
because their unmanifest center is God
they have no need
for protection.
Richard Rohr: We have no access
to who we really are
except in God.
John Chrysostom: Nothing
is equal to prayer, for prayer
makes the impossible
possible.
Prayer makes sinners saints.
John XXIII: The Church is meant to be
the Mother of all people
spreading the fullness of Christian charity
everywhere.
The Church is meant to be
the Divine Feminine Rising.
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