However, words within Option I are not
sufficient!
Read between the Signs on the Wall
where Option II
waits
to be Acknowledged by YOU
Evolutionary Christianity
By
Bruce Sanguin
We are facing a
planetary crisis that is
unparalleled in human history. There is
overwhelming scientific evidence that we
are at a tipping point. Species
extinction is accelerating,
global warming is melting the
polar icecaps at a rate that exceeds all
scientific predictions, and our air,
water, and soil is rapidly becoming a
toxic soup that is ending up in
our own bodies. We have only a few
years to reorient ourselves and avert a
disaster from which there may be no
return.
Decades of
materialistic philosophy have served
to void the cosmos of any sacred
dimension resulting in an economic
ideology that turns the natural world
into a “resource” for human
consumption. “What your people call
natural resources, our people call
kin”, a local indigenous chief told
me at a recent workshop. The theological
models we have employed in the
church have lacked the power to
counter that assumption that human
beings alone are centers of meaning
in an otherwise dead universe.
The good news is that
there is an emerging groundswell
of people who are awakening to a
universe that is alive,
purposeful, and unfolding in
trajectory toward increased complexity,
consciousness, and compassion. It is
dawning on many of us that after 13.7
billion years, we are the presence of
the evolutionary process that has
become self-aware – and that
while the beauty of the cosmos consists
of its splendid diversity, there
is no disconnection anywhere in
the universe. We are concentrated
amalgams of every organism, every
biological process, and every cultural
worldview that has preceded us. We are
biologically and spiritually kin with
all in the Kingdom of God. To be an
ecological Christian in the 21st
is to center oneself in this kinship as
spiritual practice.
A deep theology of
radical interconnectedness can
help Christians to address our
ecological crisis. When science is
stripped of its materialistic bias, this
is the universe it is revealing.
Either God or Spirit is intimately
involved in an evolving and profoundly
coherent cosmos, (in which everything is
everywhere), or God will cease to be
relevant in the 21st century.
Mystics in every religious
tradition have intuited what Isaiah
realized in his famous vision – that “the
whole earth is filled with the glory of
God”. We need an ecological
theology that helps us to recover
the spirituality of awe implicit in
Isaiah’s vision. Awakening to the
sacred dimension of creation breaks
the spell of consumerism and provides us
with the inner resources and
collective will to imagine and enact
an alternative way of living upon
the planet – one that is fit for our
children’s children.
 I entirely agree with the above
analysis, it adds to a long
"evolutionary chain". It can be a
further introduction to Option I, yet it
remains stuck in itself! We urgently need
more than an evolution within Option I;
we need the transition to Option II -
beyond evolutions of forms, towards a
sufficient understanding of the basics
of human life in terms of lifefulfillment and
its implementation. And their is no
intellectual, personally-neutral
short-cut, a content-free technology
(gen-, or neuronal manipulation up to
cyborgs, up to global high tech
networking), or a sufficiently
sustainable man-made ideal. That kind of
evolution, even with Christian rhetoric
and however sophisticated, is
non-essential, ultimately
self-destructive...
Daniel Ellsberg
with a 9Pm-(3p0):J-H2
Option I mind: As the Pentagon
whistleblower he was "the most
dangerous man" for the USA in the
Vietnam war and contributed
substantially to the
fall of President Nixon: "The best
thing, the best in this country can do,
is to go to prison" - at his time as
conscious objectors in the war which
cost two million Vietnamese and 58'000
American lives. He proved how four
American presidents
(Eisenhower-Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon)
lied about the cause and the
progress of the Vietnam War, just
as Georg W. Bush did it about 9/11
and the the Second Gulf War. The
amazing thing is, it took him
from 1954-69 to
03-understand what was really going
on in the American politics - first as a
marine military officer, then
contributing to the decision to fully
bomb North Vietnam, as an analyst under
Defense Secretary McNamara - before he
could make up his mind to
31-reframe American Politics. So
subtle is Option I in people's mind...
A Bm-false Big Mental Bang Prophet:
"Briefly,
what I am proposing is that the
psychology of the mature human being is
an unfolding, emergent, oscillating,
spiraling process, marked by progressive
subordination of older, lower-order
behavior systems to newer, higher-order
systems as man’s existential problem
change."
Harvard Professor Kenneth Rogoff: "We
are in a situation, where we do not
know, which economic-political answers
work"; we are in a situation where
economists, as a profession, cannot come
out with firm answers while individuals
relish the possibility of making a
clever argument. The problem is that, if
clever arguments can get you a Bm-publication
in a good journal, they may also confuse
the laymen and thereby Bm, including
policymakers. And among others, the
span of attention has been
dramatically decreased in more and more
brains. More democracy in science
is not the solution, it is speeding up
the vicious circle Option I has
turned into a messy Bm, and
new technologies do no longer have
automatically an integrating effect on
society; quite the opposite! In fact,
the crisis of economy is a
crisis of the science of economy,
and that is the tangible tip of the
iceberg of the crisis of how we deal
with ideas!
 Video
form the Option I World: Greed is Good;
it is right, greed works, it clarifies,
cuts through and captures the
evolutionary spirit.
Greed in all of its forms,
greed for life, for money, love
knowledge, has marked the upward
surge of humankind.
And greed will save that
malfunctioning
cooperation of the USA...
What
Professor Brian R.
Myers in his book «The
Cleanest Race» writes about North
Korea's self-image, applies in just more
subtle ways to any Bm-cult.
It leads to state, and then
global infantilism;
it is just fatherly enough to seemingly
secure society, meaning itself, but it
actually is basically motherly with
nourishing people symbolically. This
bias has the advantage that people
revolt less against mothers than
fathers, and it overcomes the
schizophrenic fascist and communist
mind split between work-, and war-place
on the outer side, and the kitchen table
in privacy. Reason
in terms of Option II is excluded, Bm
permeated privacy through the media, and
heads to minds, by the fear of the
punishment that applies by being bullied
if one does not go along
competing in the Bm-spirit of the time
for money
by selling one's soul professionally...
US-President Barack Obama:
"We have to acknowledge that the
status quo has not work...!"
In 2010
40% of all people had no access to
information relevant to make desirable
decisions, 44% are under semi-free
medias, and only 16% have access
to so-called free media at the
leading edge of Option I...
Here we also want to
consider the meaning, not the sad
Bm-history of Churches, of the Bible as one
of the main, if not the main catalyzing forces in
human his tory. How can intellectuals
reasonably discount and distort this?
Under Option I
they obviously can, but you can make
sense of it in your conscience! If
it helps your
required knowledge work, detached of what some
so-called Christians and their Churches
misused it. The relevant key
passages to overcome the still
prevailing Bm-cults are:
Pslam 119:74,
Proverbs 1:1-9,
Markus 12:28-34
John 14:12 ;
summed up in
John 14:2 beyond the mono-static Bm-cult,
towards the 16 multiple
dimensions of lifefulfillment: "In
my Father's house are many rooms; if it
were not so, I would have told you. I am
going there to prepare a place for you."
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