Lots of light in this post. Especially liked the Christian conservative/ atheist progressive contrast. Thanks! I'm not the one writing so I hesitate to comment, but ... I've become more and more interested in transcending these dualities and think we are. I'm still sorting it out, but there's a place (experience, movements) where all o…
Lots of light in this post. Especially liked the Christian conservative/ atheist progressive contrast. Thanks! I'm not the one writing so I hesitate to comment, but ... I've become more and more interested in transcending these dualities and think we are. I'm still sorting it out, but there's a place (experience, movements) where all of these things exist in their highest, benevolent form (humility and true progress, unity and individual sovereignty, etc). Discerning those from people (and their products) who have co-opted universal truths that resonate with our hearts using word sorcery work, now that's mastery. It sounds corny, but listen to our hearts. The body knows. Logic is important and useful, and there are also things that no amount of critical thinking will be able to verify or negate, and the mind can sometimes be full of mirrors and shadows. Staying informed, but detached rather than rubbernecking this disaster; cutting off the evil actors from the supply of our fear and anger which fuels their nefarious machinery can be even more interesting endeavor of personal growth (sounds so progressive, lol). IMHO, we can more easily build the high road/ new world as this old world falls apart, by lending our consciousness more and more to things that affirm life, heart centered humanity, nature and, of course, Love. Thanks again for Thinking Points Memo Toby!
Wow, gorgeous comment! Yes, I agree with all of that. Even though here in the trenches I'm a partisan, I aspire to the vision you have described. Not just winning but transcending the dualisms that have us mired in the muck right now. Yes, (mixing metaphors here) that's the north star that we can use to navigate our ship to safety. Thank you!!!
Lots of light in this post. Especially liked the Christian conservative/ atheist progressive contrast. Thanks! I'm not the one writing so I hesitate to comment, but ... I've become more and more interested in transcending these dualities and think we are. I'm still sorting it out, but there's a place (experience, movements) where all of these things exist in their highest, benevolent form (humility and true progress, unity and individual sovereignty, etc). Discerning those from people (and their products) who have co-opted universal truths that resonate with our hearts using word sorcery work, now that's mastery. It sounds corny, but listen to our hearts. The body knows. Logic is important and useful, and there are also things that no amount of critical thinking will be able to verify or negate, and the mind can sometimes be full of mirrors and shadows. Staying informed, but detached rather than rubbernecking this disaster; cutting off the evil actors from the supply of our fear and anger which fuels their nefarious machinery can be even more interesting endeavor of personal growth (sounds so progressive, lol). IMHO, we can more easily build the high road/ new world as this old world falls apart, by lending our consciousness more and more to things that affirm life, heart centered humanity, nature and, of course, Love. Thanks again for Thinking Points Memo Toby!
Wow, gorgeous comment! Yes, I agree with all of that. Even though here in the trenches I'm a partisan, I aspire to the vision you have described. Not just winning but transcending the dualisms that have us mired in the muck right now. Yes, (mixing metaphors here) that's the north star that we can use to navigate our ship to safety. Thank you!!!
See Charles Eisenstein on Substack for beautiful words on unity.
Thank you!