Heart of Matter: We Belong to the Whole
“We emerge from the whole; we belong to the whole; and we are endowed with the capacity to evolve to higher levels of complexity and consciousness.” Ilia Delio, Making All…
Heart of Matter: Nature Reveals Wholeness
“Nature reveals intrinsic wholeness, but the whole is not constrained by biological life; rather on the level of the human person the whole is open to becoming more whole, orientated to…
Heart of Matter: Cosmic and Biological Life
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 “Looking at evolution through the lens of emergence helps us to realize that cosmic and biological life are marked by the development of increasing wholeness in…
Heart of Matter: What is Emergence?
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 “Emergence is a combination of holism with novelty in a way that contrasts with both physical reductionism and dualism.” Ilia Delio, Making All Things New +…
Heart of Matter: All Potentialities are Present
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 “According to the principle of plenitude we live in a “filled world” in which all potentialities are presented.” Ilia Delio, Making All Things New + “De…
Heart of Matter: The Human Person
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 “Teilhard saw evolution of the human person as part of the whole natural process of creativity and generativity.” Ilia Delio, Making All Things New + “Teilhard…
Heart of Matter: A Cosmic Mass
March 28, 2023 “This movement from matter to spirit marks “the fundamental property of the cosmic mass to concentrate upon itself…as a result of attraction of synthesis.” Thus, “there is…
