Life and religion are deeper than rationality
and Christianity is not the only seemingly irrational religion:
“The first/most elementary fact about Zen
is its abhorrence of the dualistic division
between matter and spirit – body and soul are one.”
– Thomas Merton
Many of the beliefs of Christianity can be fully understood
only by contemplatives who know nondual consciousness
and its paradoxes: “Jesus is fully human and fully divine”
“Mary is both virgin and mother”
“Bread is still bread and yet it is Jesus.”
No wonder this faith seems irrational to the secular mind!
Bernard Lonergan, a brilliant Canadian theologian
thought it was ironic that scholastics exaggerated
the objectivity of truth since Thomas Aquinas
the Father of Scholasticism thought truth
was in the mind of God and in human minds
so Lonergan spent his life’s work emphasizing
the importance of subjective experience –
the internal mental processes by which we discern truth.
The truth of most spirituality tells us
we have forgotten who we are
therefore the main task of religion is to remind us
that we are original blessings: daughters and sons of God.
“Without God, what am I
except a guide to my own self-destruction.”
– Augustine
Naskapi Indians have always been guided
by their “Great One” – their soul
who appears to them in their dreams
and instructs them about when to hunt or lay low.
Lies/dishonesty they have found
drive their Great One away
and honesty/generosity draw the Great One near.
This shows the Cosmic Christ like life itself
transcends rationality and can be contemplated and found
in the joy of everything/everywhere/everyone
all at once.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 