The Poetree Worldview
Leafing Through History - Book Three of the Justified Living Trilogy
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GROUNDED in NATURE: oil spills and priestly anointing Speaking realistically, the process of evolution includes sameness, deadness, collapse and change; everyone is exposed to these... Frictions accumulated along faultlines build and break only when pressures exceed resistance, and with the break, as in earthquakes, violence and collapse happen. The disruptions of oil spills are in the category of earthquakes... In the The misuse of knowledge by power structures is no longer tolerable when people see through overreach; however, that doesn’t automatically eliminate despotic cultures and abuses of power... Jesus railed against... religious power that... marginalized people... The culture of orthodoxy is the culture of... dislike for differences if not outright intolerance... in short, sameness-culture, corporate exploitation, is a “culture of death.” ...When Jesus said “let the dead bury the dead,” he said in effect, let those who insist on the deadness of sameness bury their sameness; expect Resurrection into newness.
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When salt loses its savor it needs to be thrown out and replaced—this is an emphatic lesson from The Second Vatican Council, which addresses “joy and hope” in a faithless and despairing culture. The shining light of Vatican II is a beacon trained on the natural reality of transformational consciousness that grows out of and thrives in beauty and truth. The beauty of the moment, the truth of the moment is all that is and all that ye need to know, for beauty is truth, truth beauty.
A Tree’s leaf is a lexicon (DIVINICON) of symbiotic history. Leaves are pages of durable consciousness that green freshly every Spring. Open to the beauty, the wisdom of a leaf, and the destiny of the blossom—HAPPINESS IS A LITTLE FLOWER GARDEN.
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Sylvester Steffen seeks to have the realm of religion and the world of science dialogue with one another. Obviously comfortable with the language of both cultures, he weaves together poems that are both gentle and convicting… The poems are powerfully revelatory... Following in the train of Teilhard de Chardin, to whom he pays tribute in several offerings, the author calls us to be responsible stewards of this biosphere… Surely, no issue is of greater urgency in our time than that we preserve our fragile planet from destruction by greed and ignorance… Another prevailing theme is the celebration of women who suffer patronization or oppression…
Mr. Steffen does not eschew tradition except when it rigidifies and stifles life, but would have tradition informed by the new, fresh learning that modernity unveils for us. We must not ignore the goodness of past cultures, but apply the trinity of communication, consciousness and conscience. These latter headings are the subject matters of the three trilogies… It is [his] hope... that this book might be the syllabus of ... study in colleges and universities to stimulate wholeness in learning and living. Our specialized, fragmented and truncated approach to many disciplines cries out for a more comprehensive view of the learning enterprise...
Creativity… has not so much to do with novelty as… with expressing… inner passions. Whether... preacher or poet, there is a strong urge seeking invention. So, whether... a... sermon or poem, it demands execution …Poems range from various takes on the worldview to the specificity of one oak tree in a small
Bishop L. David Brown,