July 25

I will touch on two approaches for understanding the world we live in, documented by Mary Coelho:

1. The Universe Story cosmology,

• the description astronomers currently give of how things have developed since the Big Bang (The Great Flaring Forth) 13 billion years ago.
• What evolutionary biologists believe has happened on Earth: the contributions of oxygen, sex. A tendency toward “mind,” the “triune brain,”
• How we are bits of the universe but not pieces: holograms, the holomovement,  implicate order, consciousness,
• The nature of time, with emphasis on Present.

2. Mystical Awareness of reality (mostly the traditions of the West)

• Contemplation and its relation to wholeness, fullness
• Christian mystics
• The stages and rewards of approaching a sense of oneness
• The Unitive Life
  • Teresa of Avila

Could these two approaches to understanding the world be connected?

August 8

Sections III & IV of AUEP

Religion & Quantum Physics

• Sub-atomic particles are not “things;” they are waves, or clouds of possibility, until we observe them.
• The Void/ Abyss/ Plenum/ God
  • A generative nothingness
  • Self-organizing systems
• The Unfolding Whole
  • Our Place
• “THAT,” out of which (self-)organizing arises.
• The Soul
  • Jung
• The place of “Difference” within the Fundamental Unity
• An Incarnational World-view

The Divided Soul

• Primordial Consciousness
  • It’s Loss & Recovery
    • Christian Thought
• Ego & the Hero’s Journey

• What Humans Need
  • For formation of The Self
• Splits
• Earth, Maternal Matrix

August 22

Section V of AUEP

• Striving without Willfulness
• Development of Human Consciousness over the centuries
• Spiritual Awakening as an Expression of the Universe
• The Journey Toward Awakening
• The Unitive Life
• Ecozoic Consciousness

Summary and Next Steps for moving into a new society, a new relationship to each other and the Earth.

• From 2010 to 2020 CE: how am I led; what could WE do?