Heart of Matter: “The Divine Entanglement”
“While panentheism is a helpful concept, the language of pantheism and panentheism is based on concepts of ‘being’ and ‘nature’ that can lead to misguided images of distinct beings in…
Heart of Matter: “The Universe Completes God”
August 20, 2024 “Teilhard 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”
“When the outer world and the inner world form one seamless world, the unus mundus, then we are fully alive in the All. As Teilhard wrote: “If I am to be…
Heart of Matter: “Christianity is a Non-Dual Religion”
“Writing from an intercultural perspective, Raimon Panikkar’s view was that Christianity is essentially a non-dual religion. What has distorted this awareness has been the attempt to process Jesus’s experience through…
Heart of Matter: “God Lives in the World”
“The 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?”
“The question we have to face, theologically, is this: If divinity is transcendent, personal being, what does this mean in terms of consciousness and the psyche? Is God a shorthand term for…