I did not understand a good deal of this, nor of some of the discussion. I will say that when I read Desmet, his idea of spirituality being a key struck a chord with me and has stayed with me.
I will add a few disorganized thoughts, though, just to clarify my own understanding. I consider that some statements of Jesus indicate a singu…
I did not understand a good deal of this, nor of some of the discussion. I will say that when I read Desmet, his idea of spirituality being a key struck a chord with me and has stayed with me.
I will add a few disorganized thoughts, though, just to clarify my own understanding. I consider that some statements of Jesus indicate a singularity. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit being one, for example. I'll question that the statement "no one cometh to the Father but through me" is narcissistic. Why? Because it is about being centered spirit, not form (that would be the tech singularity). Spirit can incarnate in form if one is centered in spirit (I'll say the spirit of divine love, in Christianity, the Christ spirit).
One tricky part here is that it is easy to be misled. For instance, the mass formation we are seeing feels good to people because humans are social beings/animals. Oxytocin, for example, is a part of this. The bonding of mother and child is part of the Christian tradition. But oxytocin can go awry and I'd observe it likely has a role in mass formation. Cults routinely use love bombing to create mass formation on a smaller scale (is it mass, then?).
I think that the spirit of divine love is something to consider further, since it includes justice as well as forgiveness. It is not primarily a feeling. Anyone who has been "crazy in love" and gotten over the intense feelings to find a shambles knows this. Carl Jung had some ideas that may be congruent here as well. Religion may or may not be healthy and certainly it has its share of charlatans. Proceeding with caution is advised.
The unhealthy aspects of the tech singularity are easy to detect at all levels. And there is a certain coordination that appears uniform as we see easily with the lockstep handling of the pandemic, but also with the unhealth of those thousands who are being laid off by big tech companies, the cities in California, etc. The jobs at those companies may have been the equivalent of fast food. Some might think of a tech singularity as associated with the antichrist.
I'll watch some of the recommended videos to learn more but think the idea of a spiritual singularity with individually diverse manifestations is appealing. Because "spiritual matters are spiritually discerned" this may be misconstrued as Jesus' actions were misconstrued as political ("render unto Caesar").
Thanks, Robert for this hopeful line of thought. I'll try to understand more through watching the videos.
I did not understand a good deal of this, nor of some of the discussion. I will say that when I read Desmet, his idea of spirituality being a key struck a chord with me and has stayed with me.
I will add a few disorganized thoughts, though, just to clarify my own understanding. I consider that some statements of Jesus indicate a singularity. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit being one, for example. I'll question that the statement "no one cometh to the Father but through me" is narcissistic. Why? Because it is about being centered spirit, not form (that would be the tech singularity). Spirit can incarnate in form if one is centered in spirit (I'll say the spirit of divine love, in Christianity, the Christ spirit).
One tricky part here is that it is easy to be misled. For instance, the mass formation we are seeing feels good to people because humans are social beings/animals. Oxytocin, for example, is a part of this. The bonding of mother and child is part of the Christian tradition. But oxytocin can go awry and I'd observe it likely has a role in mass formation. Cults routinely use love bombing to create mass formation on a smaller scale (is it mass, then?).
I think that the spirit of divine love is something to consider further, since it includes justice as well as forgiveness. It is not primarily a feeling. Anyone who has been "crazy in love" and gotten over the intense feelings to find a shambles knows this. Carl Jung had some ideas that may be congruent here as well. Religion may or may not be healthy and certainly it has its share of charlatans. Proceeding with caution is advised.
The unhealthy aspects of the tech singularity are easy to detect at all levels. And there is a certain coordination that appears uniform as we see easily with the lockstep handling of the pandemic, but also with the unhealth of those thousands who are being laid off by big tech companies, the cities in California, etc. The jobs at those companies may have been the equivalent of fast food. Some might think of a tech singularity as associated with the antichrist.
I'll watch some of the recommended videos to learn more but think the idea of a spiritual singularity with individually diverse manifestations is appealing. Because "spiritual matters are spiritually discerned" this may be misconstrued as Jesus' actions were misconstrued as political ("render unto Caesar").
Thanks, Robert for this hopeful line of thought. I'll try to understand more through watching the videos.