My preceding blog served to demonstrate what a critical mass of anthropologists have acknowledged for some time now – the potency of belief system in determining the nature and boundaries of human experience.
As asserted in the conversation In defense of truth, when cosmologies clash, the factor that settles the contest is not debate but demonstration. In the court of public opinion, ‘show me’ defeats ‘tell me’ every time, and notwithstanding modernism’s deep learned commitment to the manipulation of public opinion through propaganda, the eye trumps the ear eventually whenever there is consistency of demonstration.
Equally importantly, regardless of the smugness of state power in wielding that apparaently ultimate WMD, (weapon of mass deception), its understandable congenital fear of a Higher Power to its own, though baseless in that what was feared was competition, has some validity in that such a Power allots specific purpose to the State and can and does intervene to ensure that purpose is not ultimately corrupted.
Regardless of how great a distance there be between present human experience and imagined possibility, that distance is bridged by a consistently applied how and why. A foundation was laid in What do you know to establish that vision suggested in Incorruptible of a future where spirituality eclipses technology as the basis for the satisfaction of material human need and desire, euphemistically called the ‘kingdom of God’ for the theologically inclined, represented only parabolically by the revolutionary figure of Jesus Christ in the Gospels, but now demanding more plain description as we approach a window of fulfillment. The unique ability Jesus consistently demonstrated was mind over matter – the very opposite of the Materialist narrative which posits matter as the context from which mind emerges.
Flipping the script, both matter and material culture are not only formed by Mind but also reformed when mind is renewed with the Christ program – a thing made clearer in Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
It seems crazy, but after an inundation in however strange the facts may seem, the un-initiated mind has no resort but to bow to the new and established context.
The interpretation of ‘every knee shall bow and every tongue confess’ may be much less sectarian and triumphalist, and much more evolutionary and predictable when lifted from the religious context and seen from the vantage point of current breakthroughs in consciousness studies and cosmology.
New followers of my blogs, which for the most part center on the fields of religion, science, politics and gender, but which cumulatively serve to paint an admittedly uncommon picture of a future we are destined to arrive at, may find the review of the highlighted articles, and suggested leads to others therein, helpful to understand the summary points made here.
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