We Are Already Home

                                             

Duane Elgin describes the difference between the first and second axial age as follows:

[T]he first axial age began with a view of separation and the “other.” In a world of growing individualism and differentiation [and violence], the religious emphasis on compassion served as a vital bridge between people [and the divine]. Now, a second major axis with a very different orientation is opening in the world. Religions of separation are becoming religions of communion as we realize there is no place to go where we are separate from the ever-generative womb of the living universe.

The second axial age begins with a recognition emerging from the combined wisdom of both science and spirituality; namely, that we are already home—that the living universe already exists within us as much as we live within it. In the words of theologian, Thomas Berry, “The universe is a communion and a community. We ourselves are that communion become conscious of itself.” Compassion remains a vital element of spirituality, but it is now being held increasingly within a context of communion rather than separation. [1]

Amen. May it be so.

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An excerpt from a daily meditation entitled:  Full Participation

Fr. Richard Rohr, Center for Action and Contemplation

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And the womb, and the consciousness, still expanding...

Until next post, 

May It Be that we expand in wisdom and compassion...