THE POSSIBLE JOURNEY
Uncompromised Trust
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“The Possible Journey” is a trip into the complexities of today’s consciousness in search of light that settles conflicts and illumines the future. It means to be a lifetime guide to faith maturity.
What is a deficit in faith-teaching is that strategies are mostly designed for child consumption and fail to take adults beyond childhood understandings.
The world of religion and the world of science are one and the same. The only difference is the perspective from which people view the world. Religious/scientific spirituality is the universal spirituality of human consciousness, the same original cosmic energy evolving in self-developed, self-reflective understanding—hypostasis.
As Earth-substance is the means of our spiritual encounter with God, so we are the means of God’s encounter with Earth-substance. We are the reflex/reflective doers of Earth Sacrament, the hypostasis of divine/human encounter, God’s intelligent presence on Earth.
Humankind is on a collision course with nature’s providence for it sells too easily its soul to the lures of consumerist prostitution. We are far down the slippery slope. We need to catch ourselves and confront ourselves, reduce consumption and return to self-identification with nature.
The cumulative toll of the standoff between religion and science is too great to condone. Nature and people are victimized and threatened with terminal degradation by institutional greed, moral indifference, and by conscience politically stymied.
In ways that men cannot understand and do not experience, the Intelligence of Eucharist informs women to find joy in pain, because, in their bodily being they celebrate life’s fullness of growing, of birth, transfiguration, resurrection and ascendancy into consciousness. Women celebrate the joy of renewal, Eucharist and Second Coming in every Newborn.
Trust and distrust grow side-by-side like wheat and weeds and become more deeply implicated in the subconscious with each re-iteration. On an ongoing basis continuing vigilance needs to avoid deepening the implication of evil and facilitate the greater implication of good… Each of us, whether male or female is a “Trinitarian” person, namely, an individual qualified in male/female iterations. The informing of consciousness and the justification of conscience happens continuously in the intentional iterations of harmonic resonance — the way of Godlikeness
Vatican II (Gaudium et Spes) committed Church to the transformational mission of justifying theology and ecclesiology by engaging intentionally the rational, evolutionary mechanisms of communal harmony. The end of the schism between religion and science might also end the divorce of Faith and Reason and return trust in the healing of bipolar disorders, the human person and nature.
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THE POSSIBLE JOURNEY is about war and peace, about disharmony and harmony, about hate and love, about what we choose and by which we customize habits. In the course of life, positives and negatives get folded together in consciousness. We can blindly go on and suffer the hurts of negative implications and impose them on others, or we can search them out and remove them from the menu of choices.
Nature equips us to do this. We inherit an intuitional capacity for symbiotic accommodation but also a strong inclination toward hyped egoism. One is the way of love and harmony, the other is the way of discord and degradation. It’s not about God; it’s about us and our personal choices to become Godlike—or otherwise.
Natural, self-reflective evolution (symbiosis), the option of love, is ours to choose. Intentional symbiosis is the way of Godhead Harmony, the Way of WORD-LIGHT-LOVE. The alternative is the way of waste, of personal and social degradation, the trinity of ignorance-arrogance-greed.
Coming to the wisdom of faith/reason by way of trimorphic resonance is an adult, divine/human process of consciousness, something larger and beyond the pablum of institutional religion. Our choice is to continue on the way of repressive Dominion Theology, imperialism and violence, or to diverge and opt the way of Liberation Theology, love for one another, openness and intentional accommodation.
THE POSSIBLE JOURNEY aspires to be a lifetime guide for growth into adult faith and fulfilled living. Let it be your guide to the harmonic Way of TRUTH-LIGHT-LOVE. Uncompromised Trust, fidelity to mutuality, is the best option for developing the possibilities of life. For the Love of God and for Peace on Earth choose intentional symbiosis, choose trust, choose life!
About the Author
Sylvester Steffen’s professional learning in science and religion, and his lifetime dedication to both equip him uniquely to reconcile their impasse. His intense and persisting effort (since 1957) in interpreting the theological implications of evolutionary intelligence has brought him to a cosmologically reconciled sense of religion and science.
Until now there is not a rational and comprehensively drawn-out reconciliation of science and religion that compares with the author’s analysis and synthesis. His original interpretation of the process of intelligent design and the natural evolution of material forms and energetic functions—trimorphic resonance—is an elegant reduction of the complex but all-important matter of understanding communal relationships. His words speak authoritatively and unambiguously in matters of egalitarian theological awareness.
His reconciliation values equally the sacred insights of Scripture and Tradition as well as the dynamic complexities of quantum science. His analysis and synthesis opens holistic consciousness to the possibilities of Liberation Theology.
His refreshing and all-embracing logic challenges the staid theology of church dominion and enables universal consciousness to move beyond the political fixities of church and state. He intends for THE POSSIBLE JOURNEY to be a practical lifetime guide in adult faith formation that belongs importantly to the continuum of universal consciousness.