FWIW, this does approach (what I imagine of) Peirce (perhaps only old man Peirce, though, given that I'm not a Peirce scholar -- or a scholar at all -- and don't keep track of how historical figures change their opinions over time):
cf https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Neglected_Argument_for_the_Reality_of_God On 05/18/2016 10:47 AM, George Duncan wrote: > Here's a religious and historical cut on consciousness. Written by an active > Jesuit theologian, Richard Rohr. Interesting to explore the similarities an > differences in this conceptualization and that being discussed on the FRIAM > list. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > *Consciousness and Contemplation* > *Wednesday, May 18, 2016* > > [...] > In the big consciousness, we know things by participation with them, which is > love. As I've said before, we cannot know God in a cerebral way, but only by > loving God through a different kind of knowing. Mature spirituality teaches > us how to enter into the reality of that which we are encountering. And it > gets even better than that. Eventually you get the courage to say, /I am a > little part of that which I am seeking/. In this moment, the idea of God as > transcendent shifts to the realization that God is imminent. That's why the > mystics can shout with total conviction and excitement: My deepest me is God! > God is no longer just /out there/, but equally /in here/. Until that > transference takes place and you know that it is God in me loving God--God in > me worshipping God, resting in God, enjoying God--the whole point of the > incarnation has not been achieved, and we remain in religion instead of > actual faith experience or faith encounter. -- ⛧ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
