Heart of Matter: “The Divine Entanglement”
āWhile panentheism is a helpful concept, the language of pantheism and panentheism is based on concepts of ābeingā and ānatureā that can lead to misguided images of distinct beings in…
Heart of Matter: “The Universe Completes God”
August 20, 2024 āTeilhard indicates that the universe completes God. That is, God does not depend on the universe to be God; rather, the universe depends on God to be…
Heart of Matter: “Becoming More Than Human”
“As we awaken to the God-depth of our life, we become more than human; we become “ultra-human” or “Christic,” which impels us to move beyond the “ego” toward the “super-ego”…
Heart of Matter: “One Seamless World”
āWhen the outer world and the inner world form one seamless world, theĀ unus mundus, then we are fully alive in the All. As Teilhard wrote: āIf I am to be…
Heart of Matter: “Christianity is a Non-Dual Religion”
āWriting from an intercultural perspective, Raimon Panikkarās view was that Christianity is essentially a non-dual religion. What has distorted this awareness has been the attempt to process Jesusās experience through…
Heart of Matter: “God Lives in the World”
āThe world lives in God and God lives in the world, and the mutual influence between God and the world is similar to the way the cells of our body…
Heart of Matter: “The Question Is?”
āThe question we have to face, theologically, is this: If divinity is transcendent, personal being, what does this mean in termsĀ ofĀ consciousness and the psyche? Is God a shorthand term for…
