Ken Wilber’s all-inclusive vision/”integral philosophy”
takes in the I/WE/IT we live/move/have our being in each day
when we are alone (I space)
when we interact with others (WE space)
when we interact with corporations/banks/governments/
organized religions (IT space) – we go from
personal/to interpersonal/to impersonal
and the IT space treats us like another IT not a PERSON
Jesus was: not a cog in the wheel of organized religion/
a layman not a priest/in the streets more than in the temple
yet priests have created elaborate religious temple ceremonies/rituals
to worship a man who never once asked to be worshiped
only followed – organized religion has made Jesus
safe/institutionalized/an IT – an object of worship
organized/institutional/impersonal religion
does not equal or create COMMUNITY
because in the past 150 years Christianity has become
largely institutionalized/like a big business
and not only laity but also clergy
are dissatisfied with institutionalized religion
“Western orthodoxy has for far too long
had a too detached/lofty/oppressive view of God
imposed on it by a “docetic” – “not really human”
view of Jesus – which has made Jesus the God-man
impotent in peoples’ personal lives” – N.T. Wright
all this has come about due to an underlying philosophy
of “individualism” spawned by Protestant theology/
reinforced by the so-called “Enlightenment”/
doubly reinforced by IT-space capitalism –
Protestantism often addressed the Word of God
to the salvation of solitary individuals
rather than the social gospel
of the transformation of society
but there is hope since evolution thrives
on communalism not individualism – survival
of the most cooperative not the most competitive
and God is the dynamic of love
that gathers all beings together
into greater consciousness/unity/LOVE.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 