Just a quick question (maybe not a quick answer?): Would you say there are similarities between you and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? Do you resolve both evolution and God together as he did? Thanks!
Interesting question. I don't see a conflict between evolution and God. The universe was not literally created in 6 days, and the earth is actually 4.5 billion years old. Like Teilhard I believe parts of the bible are meant to be read literally and parts are meant to be read allegorically. Genesis is allegorical. However, as I understand it, Teilhard makes a distinction between creator and creation: that each are made of different "stuff." Divine stuff and not divine stuff. While I see it all as divine. And for some reason God has decided to allow some of God's divine stuff to become physical and be confined to certain laws (like gravity and evolution and the illusion of separation), and its consciousness (us, and bunnies, and rocks, etc.) to develop with these limitations, to see what happens. My working assumption is that there is an evolution in consciousness that is best worked out when there are challenges to overcome.
I enjoyed reading your “Becoming an Ascended Species.” I agree with you that there is a some sort of larger shift in consciousness happening right now. I love your observation that “By our changing state of consciousness, our Post-Egoic Society will see war, oppression, fear, unsustainability, and every other destructive tendency dissolve.” That is my fervent prayer. I disagree with you, however, that it will be achieved through science. I love science! Much of the good things in my life are because the blessings of science. But science won’t bring us immortality, because we are already immortal. Science won’t help us escape the confines of the universe anytime soon, but we already can. As you remind us, “we cannot solve our problems at the same level of consciousness that created them.” The consciousness that we all must step out of is thinking that we are, at our core, physical. We are already so much more.
Hello Reverend Bradbury;
Just a quick question (maybe not a quick answer?): Would you say there are similarities between you and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin? Do you resolve both evolution and God together as he did? Thanks!
Interesting question. I don't see a conflict between evolution and God. The universe was not literally created in 6 days, and the earth is actually 4.5 billion years old. Like Teilhard I believe parts of the bible are meant to be read literally and parts are meant to be read allegorically. Genesis is allegorical. However, as I understand it, Teilhard makes a distinction between creator and creation: that each are made of different "stuff." Divine stuff and not divine stuff. While I see it all as divine. And for some reason God has decided to allow some of God's divine stuff to become physical and be confined to certain laws (like gravity and evolution and the illusion of separation), and its consciousness (us, and bunnies, and rocks, etc.) to develop with these limitations, to see what happens. My working assumption is that there is an evolution in consciousness that is best worked out when there are challenges to overcome.
I enjoyed reading your “Becoming an Ascended Species.” I agree with you that there is a some sort of larger shift in consciousness happening right now. I love your observation that “By our changing state of consciousness, our Post-Egoic Society will see war, oppression, fear, unsustainability, and every other destructive tendency dissolve.” That is my fervent prayer. I disagree with you, however, that it will be achieved through science. I love science! Much of the good things in my life are because the blessings of science. But science won’t bring us immortality, because we are already immortal. Science won’t help us escape the confines of the universe anytime soon, but we already can. As you remind us, “we cannot solve our problems at the same level of consciousness that created them.” The consciousness that we all must step out of is thinking that we are, at our core, physical. We are already so much more.