"The LORD is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold" Psalm 18:12
"The prospect of the righteous is joy, but the hopes of the wicked come to nothing." Proverbs 10:28
"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day." Genesis 31
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote both of the Divine Milieu and the Noosphere. The Divine Milieu is an energy field that encompasses all intangible (thoughts and emotions) and tangible (matter) in the Cosmos. The Noosphere is a growing field of consciousness that is enveloping the Earth that Louis Savary refers to the "collective mind and spirit" of Earth. The Noosphere contains all information, thought and emotions generated by humans. The noosphere is also the supernatural body of Christ as our hands are physical body of Christ. Teilhard envisioned this consciousness as evolving to a loving energy shared by all humans.
What Louis Savary does not write about in the New Spiritual Exercises is that the consciousness known as the Noosphere we are forming has both negative energy and positive energy generated from our thoughts, information, and emotions. Love and fear not only manifest in physical acts, but contribute to the Noosphere. Both the positive and negative energy in the Noosphere can affect an individual consciousness as well as the collective. As in the energy focused in prayer can heal others, negative energy can also be consciously directed at others. Positive energy generated through love and joy expands the Noosphere. Hate and fear contract the Noosphere and target those who generate love.
However, what the enemy that generates hate and fear does not want you to know, is that the love of God and each other cannot be overcome and there is nothing to fear because Jesus' love is your joy and protection. As Teilhard wrote we are on an upward path that sometimes cycles downward before resuming upward. The truth is that the Divine Milieu, consists mostly of the unconscious which is God filled with love and positive energy. The enemy seeks to dominate our conscious thoughts in an attempt to convince us creation is not good and that we will fail. But this is not reflective of the true nature of creation. Jesus with his death on the cross unleashed a powerful force of love into the Noosphere symbolized by the tearing of the curtain in the temple Jesus is the way (love), the truth (knowing), and the life (eternal).
Monday, January 28, 2019
Saturday, January 26, 2019
The Seventeen Basic Teilhardian Principles
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 John (KJV)
(Excerpt from the New Spiritual Exercises by Louis M. Savary
"Principle 1: The discoveries of modern science must form an important foundation to any contemporary spirituality if it is to be true, relevant, and inspiring.
Principle 2: Evolution is happening continually on every level of being and has a direction.
Principle 3: The Law of Attraction-Connection-Complexity-Consciousness is the law that is giving evolution its direction.
Principle 4: Evolution is based primarily on spirit, not on matter.
Principle 5: We all live and move and have our being in the divine milieu.
Principle 6: Everything has a "within" as well as a "without."
Principle 7: The principle of self convergence is now operating.
Principle 8: At present, evolution is focused in the "noosphere."
Principle 9: The success of God's plan for creation depends on your conscious and creative activity to keep the divine plan evolving and developing in the direction God wants for creation.
Principle 10: Any true spirituality today must be a collective spirituality.
Principle 11: Today even an individual spirituality, is a private exclusive redemptive relationship between God and me, must include all other human beings and the rest of creation.
Principle 12: To know, love, and serve the universe with a passion.
Principle 13: To love the "invisible."
Principle 14: To love the "not yet."
Principle 15: An evolutionary spirituality is focused primarily on grace, not on sin.
Principle 16: To recognize that union differentiates.
Principle 17: To synthesize all things in the Universal Christ."
1 John (KJV)
(Excerpt from the New Spiritual Exercises by Louis M. Savary
"Principle 1: The discoveries of modern science must form an important foundation to any contemporary spirituality if it is to be true, relevant, and inspiring.
Principle 2: Evolution is happening continually on every level of being and has a direction.
Principle 3: The Law of Attraction-Connection-Complexity-Consciousness is the law that is giving evolution its direction.
Principle 4: Evolution is based primarily on spirit, not on matter.
Principle 5: We all live and move and have our being in the divine milieu.
Principle 6: Everything has a "within" as well as a "without."
Principle 7: The principle of self convergence is now operating.
Principle 8: At present, evolution is focused in the "noosphere."
Principle 9: The success of God's plan for creation depends on your conscious and creative activity to keep the divine plan evolving and developing in the direction God wants for creation.
Principle 10: Any true spirituality today must be a collective spirituality.
Principle 11: Today even an individual spirituality, is a private exclusive redemptive relationship between God and me, must include all other human beings and the rest of creation.
Principle 12: To know, love, and serve the universe with a passion.
Principle 13: To love the "invisible."
Principle 14: To love the "not yet."
Principle 15: An evolutionary spirituality is focused primarily on grace, not on sin.
Principle 16: To recognize that union differentiates.
Principle 17: To synthesize all things in the Universal Christ."
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
What is in a Name - Mont Road
"The mountain is thought to contain divine inspiration, and it is the focus of pilgrimages of transcendence and spiritual elevation. It is a universal symbol of the nearness of God, as it surpasses ordinary humanity and extends toward the SKY and the heavens. It symbolizes constancy, permanence, motionlessness, and its peak spiritually signifies the state of absolute consciousness. In dreams, a mountain signifies danger, but climbing a mountain depicts inner elevation."
I have a spiritual partner in the garden who lives on Mont Road. Mont, translated from French, means mountain. I've always thought of his home and landscape as a spiritual garden full of God's love yet to be revealed.
Why does it seem that a spiritual journey is like climbing a mountain? Because when we reach the end of our climb which can be difficult and treacherous, the view is amazing! I now live in Summit Springs which is a source of water and renewal for the mountain. Although I dreamed of a life on top of the mountain, I now am beginning to long for a small home where I can plant gardens and can retreat into myself.
My name is Elizabeth Ann which translated into Greek and Latin means "oath to God and blessed with grace" and my surname Wakefield translated into Old English means "to awaken or to hold vigil in a field often for religious purposes." My adopted surname Winchester is Old English for fortress. My soulmate's first name in Old English means handsome at birth and last name in German means the buckle maker, which forms the symbol for eternity.
I have a spiritual partner in the garden who lives on Mont Road. Mont, translated from French, means mountain. I've always thought of his home and landscape as a spiritual garden full of God's love yet to be revealed.
Why does it seem that a spiritual journey is like climbing a mountain? Because when we reach the end of our climb which can be difficult and treacherous, the view is amazing! I now live in Summit Springs which is a source of water and renewal for the mountain. Although I dreamed of a life on top of the mountain, I now am beginning to long for a small home where I can plant gardens and can retreat into myself.
My name is Elizabeth Ann which translated into Greek and Latin means "oath to God and blessed with grace" and my surname Wakefield translated into Old English means "to awaken or to hold vigil in a field often for religious purposes." My adopted surname Winchester is Old English for fortress. My soulmate's first name in Old English means handsome at birth and last name in German means the buckle maker, which forms the symbol for eternity.
Finding God in Everything
“God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him forever. God's purpose in creating us is to draw forth from us a response of love and service here on earth, so that we may attain our goal of everlasting happiness with him in heaven.
All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
As a result, we ought to appreciate and use these gifts of God insofar as they help us toward our goal of loving service and union with God. But insofar as any created things hinder our progress toward our goal, we ought to let them go.”
― St. Ignatius of Loyola
For the past few years I have been worshiping at a Methodist Church pastored by an Evangelical minister. I have found remarkable, loving, spiritual members in my small group. However, I have decided to separate from that church and find a centering prayer group and to stay connected with my Ignatian Spirituality group. I think I need a small group who sees God as love who is in all things and practices traditions and rituals because those rituals bring us closer to God, not set us apart from others. There is too much of "the other" in todays society and churches often participate in that division.
I believe Jesus saved, through grace, all of humankind and that our role is to spread his love through example. I don't agree with the Evangelical pastor that you must declare Jesus Lord and Savior to be saved. I think Jesus decides who is saved and we are not to judge others, but to lead by loving others and wishing our neighbors well. The Bible is the living word inspired by God. It is not meant to be interpreted literally to predict the end times, but to speak spiritual truths to strengthen our relationship with God to be as one. I believe that Jesus has given us everything we need to succeed if we believe in him who is love.
All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.
As a result, we ought to appreciate and use these gifts of God insofar as they help us toward our goal of loving service and union with God. But insofar as any created things hinder our progress toward our goal, we ought to let them go.”
― St. Ignatius of Loyola
For the past few years I have been worshiping at a Methodist Church pastored by an Evangelical minister. I have found remarkable, loving, spiritual members in my small group. However, I have decided to separate from that church and find a centering prayer group and to stay connected with my Ignatian Spirituality group. I think I need a small group who sees God as love who is in all things and practices traditions and rituals because those rituals bring us closer to God, not set us apart from others. There is too much of "the other" in todays society and churches often participate in that division.
I believe Jesus saved, through grace, all of humankind and that our role is to spread his love through example. I don't agree with the Evangelical pastor that you must declare Jesus Lord and Savior to be saved. I think Jesus decides who is saved and we are not to judge others, but to lead by loving others and wishing our neighbors well. The Bible is the living word inspired by God. It is not meant to be interpreted literally to predict the end times, but to speak spiritual truths to strengthen our relationship with God to be as one. I believe that Jesus has given us everything we need to succeed if we believe in him who is love.
Monday, January 21, 2019
Open Doors and Dreams
"Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity." Khalil Gibran
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Sea of Consciousness
Matthew 10:7 (KJV) - "And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) - "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
What if the cosmos and everything in it is a sea of consciousness or energy? What if humans actions are guided by this sea of consciousness most of which is not known to us, but believe we think and act based only upon what is conscious to us? What if this sea of consciousness reflects eternity where Kronos (entropy) time does not exist? Perhaps this kingdom of heaven is near to us, but we are unconscious of it except through faith and intuition, This is the difference between knowing and knowledge. Knowing requires faith and intuition. Knowledge is obtained through sensory experience. Knowing is eternal and infinite. Knowledge is finite. When we ate of the tree of knowledge, did we lose our connection to God and eternity through the gift of knowing and now rely on knowledge? By focusing on an outcome, can we bring the unconscious to the conscious and bring about the Kingdom of God?
The Power of Observation
"What you believe in and focus on becomes your reality. It can be no other way." Albert Einstein
I wrote in the Sacred Souls post titled Spiritual Singularity:
"Sister Ilia Delio postulates the universe could not exist without an observer or consciousness existing first – and that God is intimately intertwined in his creation. "Some scientists speculate that without consciousness, the universe would exist indeterminately as a sea of quantum potentiality." Without consciousness there is no matter. She further writes that creation is an expression of God's love and he is moving us forward to a greater consciousness to be shared by humans."
As I pondered this thought further I realized that not only is God intricately intertwined in his creation through observation, we are also intertwined in creation through our own observations. Quantum mechanics postulates that the behavior of light particles changes through the act of observation by a consciousness. So how much of our world is created because we are individual and collective consciousnesses observing creation versus physically interacting with creation? If God's observation of the quantum sea of probabilities brought the cosmos into being, how much is influenced by human individual and collective consciousnesses?
Einstein said what we focus on, becomes our reality, it can be no other way. We know we think and then act even even when our actions are based on our subconscious. What if our individual and collective thoughts without actions can change our world? If we focus our thoughts in prayer, can we change the outcome? How powerful a force can our consciousnesses be if we collectively visualize a specific outcome? By visualizing an outcome can we transform matter into energy and back again?
I wrote in the Sacred Souls post titled Spiritual Singularity:
"Sister Ilia Delio postulates the universe could not exist without an observer or consciousness existing first – and that God is intimately intertwined in his creation. "Some scientists speculate that without consciousness, the universe would exist indeterminately as a sea of quantum potentiality." Without consciousness there is no matter. She further writes that creation is an expression of God's love and he is moving us forward to a greater consciousness to be shared by humans."
As I pondered this thought further I realized that not only is God intricately intertwined in his creation through observation, we are also intertwined in creation through our own observations. Quantum mechanics postulates that the behavior of light particles changes through the act of observation by a consciousness. So how much of our world is created because we are individual and collective consciousnesses observing creation versus physically interacting with creation? If God's observation of the quantum sea of probabilities brought the cosmos into being, how much is influenced by human individual and collective consciousnesses?
Einstein said what we focus on, becomes our reality, it can be no other way. We know we think and then act even even when our actions are based on our subconscious. What if our individual and collective thoughts without actions can change our world? If we focus our thoughts in prayer, can we change the outcome? How powerful a force can our consciousnesses be if we collectively visualize a specific outcome? By visualizing an outcome can we transform matter into energy and back again?
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