Ecological Necessity and Divine Instance
As a conscience-check on fidelity to Covenant, I would propose for the Company of Jesus (to which all Christians belong), the consideration of divinity in the context of “ecological necessity”.
For a reflection on Communal Divinity (Trinity) one need look no further than the human person. The human person is the Earthly expression of transcendent spirit, symbiotically cast in cloth of Earth-necessity. The human person is an iteration of the cosmic weave of necessity (in-tension) and of open potential (intention).
IN-TENSION is wave/ particle necessity, the amniotic dynamic of maternal nurture; INTENTION is the insight of Pure Light, resonating dream and destiny in the dance of nature/ nurture. Nature is nurture’s love expression — amor et caritas — male/ female.
Every human person is a unique casting of nature/ nurture, of male/ female complementarity — a unity spiritually cohering in intentions of other wellbeing. The human person reflects the Trinity unity of divine intention in-standing in spirit/ matter community. Religion is conscious light — fidelity to original necessity and the light-weave of nature.
From the perspective of human consciousness, insight, intention is “trimorphic protennoia” (tri-form original consciousness), what is “trinity divinity”, reflected in the human person. Herein lies the inherent authenticity and dignity of every person.
Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity casts “new light” on religion, on the conscionable necessity of ecological fidelity. It’s time for new and renewed reverence toward nature. It's time for Church re-formation, time to take a reality check.
"Einstein’s theory of
"Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity casts “new light� on religion, on the conscionable necessity of ecological fidelity. It’s time for new and renewed reverence toward nature. It's time for Church re-formation, time to take a reality check."
e = to the energy to accept consciously Jesus interiorly and within all of nature.
I had absolutely no "energy" when I wrote the above.
Stefan, I agree with you that "It's time for new and renewed reverence toward nature." ... And that "It's time for Church re-formation, time to take a reality check." But, how does Einstein's theory of Special Relativity shine light on religion?
Since I have no understanding of Einstein's theory, I am in the dark.....
thanks.....
Einstein’s theory of
Einstein’s theory of Special Relativity, E=MC², states that all matter derives from energy, is energy. E is cosmic energy (spirituality, if you will), the source of all substance. MC² is mass times the square of the speed of light (C = Celeritas), which calculates the energy content packed in substance, matter, mass (M). This energy relationship applies to all matter, including the human body.
The economy of energy in changing systems (all living tissue) is renewed constantly by wave/ particle exchange at the subatomic level. The laws of God are script in the laws of nature. Grace supposes nature, so grace supposes the functioning of nature. The better we understand nature, the better we might understand grace.
In my very recent posting at "Spirituality & Culture", I attempt to read on nature's "ecological economy", the economy of Eucharist, of spiritual enlightenment. Intelligent design is in Divine Instance in nature's purposeful working, ever transforming (evolving) — human intentionality represents human purposefulness, which, as is apparent today, doesn't coincide with nature's self-sustaining purposes.
The correspondence of light in Einstein's science with Light in Christian consciousness is quite an amazing correspondence — something of great significance to spiritual enlightenment and to harmonious accommodation with and in nature.
I don't pretend to be a theologian, much less a physicist, but I have seriously struggled in my lifetime to accommodate science and spiritual understandings. I hope this is helpful.
To me it's a lot simpler.
To me it's a lot simpler. When I say 'I believe in God--creator of heaven and earth' I have no option but to be environmental. The earth is sacred because God made It for Us and Us for It. A society that takes the earth's resources to 50 million plastic bottles and then throws them in the dump is rotten. Again I would invite people to check our 'the story of stuff.com' and see if it does not relate to the creed as we say it at mass.
sevenup, The
sevenup,
The storyofstuff.com is great... I watched most of it, will get back to it later. We all need to hear what happens with stuff, from the time it is made, put into production, what chemicals are used, and how we use stuff and dispose of stuff.
Thanks! I will forward it to everyone I know on the internet.
Sevenup, I did check out the
Sevenup, I did check out the storyofstuff.com and have to say I was over the top impressed. So much so my friends are telling me to shutup about it. (Until they saw it.)
Great reference! Thanks.
Great reference! Thanks.
the story of stuff would
the story of stuff would make a great sermon but it was conceived,produced,and narrated by a woman.