In The Integral Vision, the greatest book of the 21st century
because it puts all knowledge together in a single system,
Ken Wilber asserts that all human potential
can be simplified to five essential elements:
quadrants (I/We/It/Its)/ levels (of consciousness)/
lines (of development)/states (of experience)/
types (of personality) which are existential realities
not theoretical concepts – we can experience all of them
similarly, all Christology has to be experiential
not just academic because prophetess Ilia Delio claims
all mystics arrive at a profound experience
of Christ in the universe – Christ experienced in daily life
as millions of believers testify
by the end of the 17th century our experience
of our place in the cosmos had radically shifted:
humans no longer occupied the center of the universe
and since spots were discovered on the surface of the sun
we knew the heavenly realm had blemishes
and so the heavenly and earthly realms
were no longer distinctly different –
there was no longer “a perfect realm up there”
versus “an imperfect realm down here”
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a prophet
crying in the wilderness of a scientific/evolutionary age
“Make way for the Lord”
as well as a Desert Father
working lifelong in China’s vast deserts
telling us about new ways to look at Christ
which the Church had difficulty embracing
staunch Catholic tradition was unbroken/unbreakable
and behind/underlying/in front of contemporary Catholicism
Franciscans today carry on the tradition of St Francis of Assisi
and Catholic philosophers wrestle today
with similar problems to St Thomas Aquinas –
spirituality and religion still search for the sacred
not ego-based values of health/happiness/success
but for a person/law/principle that transcends the self –
spirituality in the world but not of the world
not purely imminent pantheism nor purely transcendent theism
but imminent and transcendent panentheism –
prophets still cry for the human/God or God/human.
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