Morphic Resonance?

Blessings to you as we approach the Easter week! This posting may take a while as there is much swirling about in this mind of mine right now. But that swirling is really part of that spiritual force which is directing my path of the future. At least my future and I'm prayerful it is part of a much bigger happening. So onward in the hope that this will be efficacious to others as it has been for me. The more I'm exposed to these current writers and personalities the more excited I'm becoming as to the possibilities for our world, our great land, and the overarching Christic Consciousness of the message of Jesus! Quite a package.

I mentioned earlier that it is easier to highlight the non substantive parts of Richard Rohr's work as so much is rich. One of the writers referenced in his "Naked Now" book is Marianne Williamson. The book referred to is "Healing the Soul of America" and I must say that her stuff is almost as rich as Richard's work. I will be quoting some of her work in this post. She has also written "A Return to Love". Agape Love for her, and many, is the answer. No Beatles pun intended, but they were there in the 60's which is an important era to this Soul of America book. Marianne sees that we took steps in the 60's to reclaim the beauty of our founding principles but then our leaders were shot and we were seduced into a materialistic addiction. John, Bobby, Martin,..."and the bullets that shot them psychically struck us all. Millions of us became in many ways like the son of Robert Kennedy, who having watched his father murdered on television, got stoned and never recovered." "They said, "Let us honor all life." That is what made them so dangerous to the status quo. For that they lived, and for that they died. They pointed to the next step in America's moral evolution -- the expansion of our compassion -- and that is a step that by definition repudiates oppression and injustice." "Our leaders assassinated, our ranks dispersed, our generation received loud instructions: go home now, scatter, go to your rooms, and enjoy yourselves with all the toys we sell you." If Abraham's, Martin's, and John's dreams could be resurrected in this new millennium then that would be beautiful and a victory for Love. "To blend love and politics is indeed audacious. Politics is a fear-based pursuit in America today, and love is the only thing that fear fears. Love is the ultimate political rebellion." And "like a beautiful treasure housed in a decrepit building, our democratic principles are too good for our politics." Could this be something akin to an Audacity of Hope? Further she beautifully states "That place in each of us is the place of our true power; ..from that .. sacred place that we genuinely join with others...from joining we emerge truly changed, having fertilized the garden that could YET become our Eden. We turn our backs on our lower natures, allowing the angels to breath within us."

The tone of that last quote points to the perspective from which Marianne approaches today's philosophical, political, and spiritual dynamics. I believe that she is right on as to her approach but one point should be noted. The existential and mystical perspectives have been at odds throughout our existence. It appears to me that both have valid positions and it would best serve our future if we can respectfully maintain a balance, without resulting in inaction, toward the progress of all mankind. She also touches on this concept several times in relating to the connectedness of all creation, the yin and yang, right and left brain, the body and the soul. "Americans have the yang; it's time to reclaim the yin. We have the intelligence; it's time to retrieve our souls....Democracy is profoundly relevant to the evolution of humanity, and as such it carries the psychological momentum to create miracles in the strangest places." "From the early American Quakers to H.D.Thoreau, to M. Gandhi, to M.L.King,jr, the effort to bridge the inner-outer duality has been one of the high points of human philosophy and endeavor."... "Soul without body is ineffective in the world, and body without soul is dangerous." "...conscious today of the interconnectedness of all aspects of our being...Mind and body are not separate, machinelike components of a compartmentalized self, although the thought that they are--the Newtonian paradigm--has permeated the present age." "...science has corrected and improved upon Newtonian physics...the principles of quantum physics, proving that reality is not quite as solid or objective or deterministic as Newton thought." "...biologist Rupert Sheldrake has posited the notion of "morphic resonance", suggesting that there is a unified field of consciousness connecting all life." ""The more I study physics," said Einstein, "the more I am drawn to metaphysics."" And finally regarding the balancing act she states "Today, the rationalism of the European Enlightenment is being repudiated by a more soulful worldview, just as in a previous age, Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophy repudiated the overly mystified thinking of the Middle Ages. In every historical era there ensues a creative argument with the past..." The operative words here are "repudiated" and "creative". One wonders where is the "building on the past" effort vs repudiating and is the "creative" truly creative or just the victorious new thought. It seems to me that this is a good time to reflect upon the point so as to not go "overboard" to a "dualistic" swing! Honor and build; Don't just throw the bastards out.

I'm of the hope that the relatedness of these concepts bode for a hopeful future but at this point I will stop. The reason being that there are several important tangents from these points which can be very problematic and I would like to touch on them next time. These are the areas of "non-violence", "sovereignty" and the "prime directive", and the "dualistic extremes". Pax Christi! RV