The CONVERGENCE of Science and Religion ? Seems Unlikely!

By "convergence" I mean humanity's dawning awareness that both Western science and Western religion have the same basis in a dynamic-- rather than static-- understanding of the world.

We're coming to see that life evolves, the cosmos evolves, individuals evolve and our communal consciousness of the meaning of it all evolves. It's a big change in our basic assumptions about reality.

The main idea goes by many names: "process," "emergence," "evolution," "growth and development," novitatem. Historian Richard Tarnas calls this great turning in human awareness "the transfiguration of the Western mind." (See post #116.)

My first 99 entries are essays I've written over a period of about six years offering examples of the convergence from many different starting points. They come from my life-long interest in psychology, science and religion. I'm not a therapist or academic scholar but a teacher; my calling has been to help anyone interested make sense of the details of this immense transition.

The posts following #99 are not essays but minimally-edited notes and reviews from the files I've collected over the last few decades. I no longer have the time and energy needed to sort out and put together into decent essay-form the many varied ideas in these files, but I would like to share my notes and reflections with all who are interested.

If you have questions and think I might be of help, you're welcome to send me a note: sam@macpeno.com.

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#149. A Psychology for the New Cosmology
• Thoughts stimulated by a master's thesis, "Henry Corbin and Russian Religious Thought," submitted in August 2013 as part of a Master of Arts program at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University in Montreal, by Hadi Fakhoury. The full text is available on Tom Cheetham's website.

#148. Struggling with Henri Corbin
• Some basic thoughts about the ideas of Henri Corbin and an attempt to write out, in somewhat easier-to-follow words, his ideas in the section dealing with the words "alone to alone" of his Introduction to Alone With the Alone, Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi.

#147. Imagination As the Forming Force of the World
• Notes on Robert Sardello's Foreword to Tom Cheetham's Green Man, Earth Angel (SUNY, 2005), the second of Cheetham's quartet of books on the work of French religious thinker, Henri Corbin.

#146. The Neurobiology of Myth and Ritual

• From a biogenetic structuralist analysis, a neurological understanding of why myth and ritual go together.

#145. The Keeper of the Threshold
• A shaman is simply someone who is especially good at what everyone has to do-- at entering via ritual into communion with the life-giving forces and powers of the universe.

#144. A New Way of Being Human
• Our children need to know that they are cosmic events.

#143. The Liberated Universe
• Either we feel graced and blessed or we don't; patriarchal fear or sapiential delight are the only alternatives.

#142. Communion With the Heart of Creation
• “I’m simply not interested in anything else, not eternity, not the salvation of my soul,” but loving communion with God’s created world. -Pavel Florensky

#141. The Seven Pillars of Coyote

• An outline of trickster aspects of Sophia in our cosmic "work of works."

#140. Religion Has To Be As Reasonable As Modern Science
• Belief, like science, needs to be based on experience.

#139. Anthropos: The Primary Driving Force of Our Time
• We must hold on to the gains made by Christianity even while it itself ages and fades and we move on to a new stage of humanity’s evolution.

#138. Sacred Ritual in the New Creation Story
• Spirituality is a major component of the story of the universe, and ritual is a major aspect of spirituality.

#137. The Church Community in the New Creation Story
• An Earth-based church sees the cosmos as theophany, focuses on expanded self-awareness, is concerned with sociology and cultures, and offers service of liberation, healing and reconciliation.

#136. The Old Creation Story & The New Creation Story
• The new worldview is the greatest religious, humanistic, cultural and spiritual event of many centuries.

#135. Commercialism and Materialism in a Patriarchal Culture

• We’ve totally lost our significant myths.

#134. Victor White, Hugo Rahner, and E. O. Wilson
• Three books on the frontiers of cultural evolution beyond religion & psychology

#133. Beyond Religion and Psychology-- To Nature
• What it means to be a contemporary religious person.

#132. "Beyond the Hero"-- To a Coherent Model of Manhood
• An understanding of an integrated masculine way of life allows us to move beyond the severely damaged patriarchal model of maleness.

#131. Individuals Who Are Curious, Creative, and Want to Make the World Better... Are not Well?
• The shamanic personality described from a static sociological point of view.

#130. An Extraordinary Collection of Extraordinary Biographies

• People whose lives are significant for the rest of us.

#129. Joseph Campbell's "The Way of the Animal Powers"

• The evolutionary origins of shamanism and its hunting culture matrix.

#128. Body & Soul, Flesh & Spirit, Sarx and Pneuma
• In our understanding from science that the human person is at the core of the cosmos, religion's matter-spirit dichotomy is resolved and its buried treasures become recoverable.

#127. On The Frontiers of Science & Spirituality
• Basic religious insights that fit well into the new scientific story of the world.

#126. Humanity's Oldest Religion
• The cosmo-the-andric perspective is the primordial human cosmology.

#125. No Chaos, No Creativity: Trickster Makes the World
• “He who does not put Eshu first in all his doings has himself to blame when things go wrong.”

#124. The Only Way to Avoid War

• "Personal relationships, one unique being relating to another."

#123. The Psychological Origins of Patriarchy
• "Such men were never fully born."

#122. What Can Christianity Possibly Mean in the Modern World?

• Wrestling with meaninglessness while affirming the sacramentality of matter. 

#121. Our Way into the Future: Thomas Berry's Vision
• We are to learn how to enter into right relations with all the components of the natural world. There is nothing trivial about our lives; the universe needs each of us.

#120. Living In Complete Harmony With What is Around Me

• "Alone, not on guard, utterly relaxed and receptive."

#119. The Church and Earth-spirituality
• "There's no room for that sort of thing in the church," said the priest.

#118. Bear Cult People
• Ancient religious ceremonies in Japan.

#117. Addiction & Ritual
• Links between drug use and the absence of ritual.

#116. The Cosmic Evolutionary Process and the Individual

• An essay which helped me put good words on my understanding of how each individual's personal development is a participation in the evolution of the universe.

#115. In Addition to Facts and Logic...
• Books from the early 1990s, dealing with our "mythic imagination"-- an most significant aspect of being human which had been lost to, but is being recovered in, Western culture. 

#114. Our Paleolithic Roots
• Notes on books concerned with helping us to understand our brains, minds and hearts in light of primal cultures.

#113. Native American Stories
• Notes about Native American folk tales, sweat lodge and medicine wheel teachings.

#112. Hope Via Understanding Gender Distinctions
• Notes on an early book dealing with psychology from an evolutionary perspective; focuses on the origins of gender distinctions.

#111. Notes About Drumming
• Procedures involved in what has often been called a "talking-staff council" but nowadays would probably be called "communal meditation." 

#110: Mandala of Religious Experiences
• A long essay about the basic kinds of religious experience we may have when using one or other of the four-fold functions of our conscious minds. 

#109: Jung & Eastern Thought
• Personal thoughts stimulated by two books with the same name, Jung and Eastern Thought. 

#108: The Universe in Each Infant
• Brief review and personal notes about Mary Conrow Coelho's book Awakening Universe, Emerging Personhood: The Power of Contemplation in an Evolving Universe.

#107. Retirement-summer Mini-reviews
• Mini-reviews of books about evolution-related ideas: mythology, mysticism, history, the masculine, types of religious experience....

#106. Ritual & the Evolution of Culture
• Sophiology and the New Cosmology agree on this critically important point: that we exist and live in a dynamic person-centered cosmos.

#105. "The Love of Eternal Wisdom"
• No one had written anything like this in Western Christianity since the time of the early church fathers.

#104. "The Bride of the Lamb"

• Challenging thoughts from the major work of Russian Sophiologist, Sergius Bulgakov.

#103. "Nature's Magic"
• The most interesting book about the evolutionary worldview I’ve seen since I first read Teilhard’s Phenomenon Of Man 40 years ago.

#102. Dwight Judy's "Healing the Male Soul"
• With the Grail stories, Western manhood begins to come of age. Male needs are many: equality with the feminine, bonding of males with one another, equality of sons with fathers, communion with one’s ancestors.

#101. Emma Jung's "The Grail Legend"
• Salvation happens only via the unflinching efforts of individual human beings. We humans bring about the transfiguration of the world. Science is the greatest intervention ever in the cosmic order.

#100. [No post.]

#99. Beyond the Impasse
Labels & tags: Carol Frenier, Constance Fitzgerald, Cynthia Bourgeault, Henri Corbin, Imaginalis Mundus, Lois Sekerak Hogan, Shalem Institute, ta'wil, Terrence Deacon, Thomas Cheetham

#98. The Unfinished Business of Science

Labels & Tags: 2nd Law of thermodynamics, homeo-morpho-teleo, order/disorder, religious dualism, Saturn, scientific reductionism, self-organization, stasis/dynamis, Terrence Deacon, zero

#97. Five Years of Posts

#96. Science's Best: Cosmic Energy

Labels & Tags: Brian Swimme, creativity, dynamics, electrical charge, expansion of universe, Feeling, gravity, hummingbird flight, interaction of opposites, Intuition, Mary Evelyn Tucker, self-organization, yin-yang

#95. Science's Best: Matter, Time and Space

Labels & Tags: C. G. Jung, clockwork universe, Feeling/space, Great Ladder of Beings, Intuition/energy, mandala, medicine wheel, nesting sequence, patriarchy, Sensing/matter, temporal sequence, Thinking/time, Wicca

#94. Religion "At Its Best"

Labels & Tags: Alexander Schmemann, Bede Griffith, Big History, C. G. Jung, Corpus Christi, ecclesia, eschaton, eucharist, Karl Rahner, Raimundo Panikkar, Sergius Bulgakov, spiritus, Thomas Berry, Wolfgang Pauli

#93. The Home Stretch

Labels & Tags: Bede Griffith, Brian Swimme, Bruno Barnhart, Mary Conrow Coelho, Michael Dowd, quaternary consciousness, Raimundo Panikkar, Sergius Bulgakov, Spirituality Research Symposium, Zen story

#92. Evolution & Holy Communion
Labels & Tags: Alexander Schmemann, Charles Darwin, ekklesia, Gregory Dix, Judeo-Christian tradition, Karl Rahner, Matthew Fox, Nicholas Afanassiev, Odo Casel, Passover seder, Thomas Berry, Wisdom literature

#91. Evolution and the Passover Seder

Labels & Tags: bitter herbs, Brian Swimme, Four Questions, freedom, full moon in spring, Holy Grail, Last Supper, meaning of Egypt, salt tears, Sir Percival, Sophia, Thomas Berry, unleavened bread, youngest child

#90. "Returning" the World....

Labels & Tags: Alexander Schmemann, Andrew Newberg, Daijaku Judith Kinst, early Protestants, foot-washing, John McGuckin, Mary Conrow Coelho, Symeon the New Theologian, Teilhard, Thomas Berry 

#89. Recovery of Sacred Manhood

Labels & Tags: Allan Chinen, Donald Lee Williams, Eugene Monick, Joseph Jastrab, Matthew Fox, odd male parts, Paleolithic Hunting culture, Patrick Arnold, Paul Krugman, Robert Bly, Tao Te Ching, Thomas Berry

#88. Understanding Sacred Manhood

Labels & Tags: Cenozoic era, genes, genitals, Hunting culture, male, masculine, new cosmology, patriarchy, primal religion, reductionist science, religious dualism, ritual, symbols, Thomas Berry, women's rights

#87. Stardust's Imperative: Reinterpretation

Labels & Tags: Bede Griffith, Big History, Einstein, fear, incarnation, Isaac Newton, Jamie L. Manson, Liturgy, Nicholas Kristof, Passover, person, redemption, revelation, sacred story, sacrifice, Thomas Berry

#86. Global Consequences of Recovering Reverence

Labels & Tags: Bede Griffith, Big History, Cenozoic era, cosmo-the-andric unity, engineers, Industrial Revolution, Koran, Mother Earth, NASA's Kepler, Shiva, the tao, Thomas Berry, transfigured cosmos, Vishnu

#85. Primal Religion

Labels & Tags: Cenozoic era, cosmology, genetics, Jon Gregerson, our sacred story, Raimundo Panikkar, Rudolph Otto, the numinous, The Transfigured Cosmos, Thomas Berry, tremendum et fascinans, voices of the Earth

#84. Doubly Estranged

Labels & Tags: Cenozoic era, Earth's lyric period, John Grim, Mary Evelyn Tucker, our sacred story, primal religion, recovering reverence, scientific meditation, Thomas Berry, voices of the Earth

#83. New Comments Collected

Labels & Tags: C. G. Jung, Guild for Spiritual Guidance, Karl Rahner, Ken Wilber, Michael Dowd, modernity, Mystical tradition, Sergius Bulgakov, Tao Te Ching, Teilhard, transfigured cosmos, Wolfgang Pauli

#82. Moving Up the Ladder

Labels & Tags: Arthur I. Miller, C. G. Jung, cosmo-the-andric unity, flatland, Great Ladder, Intuition function, Ken Wilber, Michael Dowd, neutrinos, Raimundo Panikkar, ritual, Smithsonian, spirit, Wolfgang Pauli

#81. The Deep Roots of "Person"

Labels & Tags: Bernard of Clairvaux, C. G. Jung, Karl Rahner, Ken Wilber, Mary Conrow Coelho, Michael Dowd, mysticism, non-duality, Paul Lakeland, pre-frontal cortex, Sergius Bulgakov, Tao Te Ching 

#80. Two Mavericks

Labels & Tags: Arthur I. Miller, C. G. Jung, Cosmic Number, Exclusion Principle, four-fold consciousness, Freud, Ken Wilber, Michael Dowd, Positivism, quadrune brain, religious dualism, ritual, Wolfgang Pauli

#79. A Dowd Sampler

Labels & Tags: Alfred North Whitehead, Anne Rice, compassion, Dali Lama, Furry Li'l Mammal, Higher Porpoise, Ken Wilber, Lao Tzu, Lizard Legacy, Monkey Mind, quadrune brain, Tao Te Ching, virgin-mothers

#78. "Thank God for Evolution"

Labels & Tags: Connie Barlow, Discerning Your Calling, God's native tongue, Ken Wilber, Marriage of Sense and Soul, new cosmology, old time religion, our great work, Richard Dawkins, What can we count on?

#77. From Theory to Practice

Labels & Tags: Academy of Natural Sciences, creativity, diversity, Great Ladder of Beings, Ken Wilber, Michael Dowd, our great work, post-modernism, praxis, Sisters of Earth, Thomas Berry, Vandana Shiva

#76. Modernity's Gains

Labels & Tags: autonomy, Bruno Barnhart, cultural spheres, Dante, differentiation, failure of religion, freedom, Great Chain of Being, interiority, Ken Wilber, Max Weber, Michael Dowd, slavery, women's rights

#75. Three Post-modern Movements

Labels & Tags: Back to Basics, Deconstructionism, Great Chain of Being, Idealism, interiority, Ken Wilber, Michael Dowd, moments of truth, new cosmology, Plotinus, Romanticism, self-centered hero, Web of Life

#74. Modern, Pre-modern, Post-modern

Labels & Tags: cosmology, facts of life, flatland, Galileo, Great Chain of Being, Hugh of St. Victor, Ken Wilber, Kepler, Michael Dowd, modernity, mystery, St. Bonaventure, transpersonal realm 

#73. Two Important Books

Labels & Tags: Great Chain of Being, Ken Wilber, Marriage of Sense and Soul, Michael Dowd, revelation, Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology, Thank God for Evolution, Thomas Berry, Twenty Questions

#72. "Great Mystery" in the Tao Te

Labels & Tags: dualistic thinking, Great Mystery, Mary Conrow Coelho, Sam's version, Tao Te Ching, to ponder and discuss

#71. Sam's Tao Te, 55-81

Labels & Tags: a small fish, disciple of death, newborn, non-competition, not-knowing, patience, phallos, simplicity, three things only

#70. Sam's Tao Te, 28-54

Labels & Tags: compassion, empty ritual, enemies, feminine, fullness of life, good cooking, manhood, no-thing, travel, universe sings, weapons, well-intentioned violence

#69. Sam's Tao Te, 1-27

Labels & Tags: electrolyte balance, Ellen M. Chen, Jerry O. Dalton, Lao Tzu, mystery, new cosmology, power, Ralph Alan Dale, spiritus, Steven Mitchell, the Way the world works, Thomas Berry 

#68. Sam's Tao Te, Intro

Labels & Tags: electrolyte balance, Ellen M. Chen, Jerry O. Dalton, Lao Tzu, mystery, new cosmology, power, Ralph Alan Dale, spiritus, Steven Mitchell, the Way the world works, Thomas Berry

#67. More Comments Collected

Labels & Tags: Brian Greene, Chandogya Upanishad, Cynthia Bourgeault, Evolutionary Manifesto, four senses of scripture, Joseph Campbell, Levi-Strauss, Michael Dowd, natural numbers, Sister Emmanuelle, Tom Friedman

#66. Arlene's Questions

Labels & Tags: Bernie Siegel, creativity, dark matter, dualism, goals of evolution, inner search, Michael Dowd, new cosmology, Pakistan, quaternary mind, rationalism, ritual, social issues

#65. Ritual's Cosmic Roots

Labels & Tags: biggest picture, creativity, direction of cosmic process, ekklesia, fear, media as educator, mysterion tou kosmou, qahal, sangha, trust, uneducated population

#64. Ritual's Biological Roots

Labels & Tags: biogenetic structuralism, creativity, ecology, emergence, ethology, mating rituals, nature programs, nervous system, neurology, self-organization, sustainability, within

#63. Ritual's Psychological Roots

Labels & Tags: advaita, bigger picture, C. G. Jung, four-fold consciousness, Integral perspective, Intuition, magic, non-duality, reductionist perspectives, wisdom of the psyche

#62. "Let Us Attend"

Labels & Tags: bigger picture, creation as noun/verb, dia-bol, Eastern Christian liturgical rituals, empowerment, gospel, Indo-European people, magic, New Testament, rationalism, Sanskrit rita, transformation

#61. Wisdom, Cosmology & Creativity

Labels & Tags: affirmation, Dermot O'Murchu, diversity, dualism, Easter service, Enlightenment, Kathleen O'Connor, Mary Conrow Coelho, new cosmology, patriarchy, relationships, skills, uniqueness, William Grassie

#60. Symbol, Myth & Meaning

Labels & Tags: alienation, attention-grabbers, biogenetic structuralism, C. G. Jung, Claude Levi-Strauss, Great Flood, Immense Transition, Jakob Wolf, significant other, wakan, wedding ring

#59. Evolution and Religious Ritual

Labels & Tags: Easter vigil, growing edge, Jakob Wolf, New Age events, Passover seder, Road Man role, sacred pipe, sweat lodge, synagogue, uniqueness, Wicca

#58. Even Religion Evolves

Labels & Tags: anthropocentrism, Ardi, C. G. Jung, emergence of newness, Feeling function, Green Mouse of the South, Heather Eaton, puberty, revolution, spiritual not religious

#57. College 50th-Anniversary Report

Labels & Tags: Advent service, C. G. Jung, cosmology, Dorothy Day, evolution, Joan Chittister, Saint Joseph's University, Symeon the New Theologian, Teilhard

#56. A Saner Approach to Nature

Labels & Tags: Benedict of Nursia, divinization, Fabrice Blee, Heather Eaton, Immense Transition, Jakob Wolf, Karl Rahner, Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, Pascha, Symeon the New Theologian, theosis, transformation

#55. "All we have to do..."

Labels & Tags: Black Bear, C. G. Jung, Facebook, Gold Eagle, great turning, Heather Eaton, intelligent design, Jakob Wolf, Karl Rahner, Myers-Briggs, quaternary consciousness, Teilhard, the sacred, wonder and awe

#54. We Take Care of What We Value

Labels & Tags: eco-feminism, eco-justice, experience of nature, healing the Earth, Heather Eaton, Immense Transition, Jakob Wolf, new cosmology, new religious moment, Philadelphia Inquirer, stewardship

#53. Bridging the Gap

Labels & Tags: ancient Greeks, David Crumm, environmental crisis, ethics, experience of nature, intelligent design, Jakob Wolf, Metanexus, phenomenology, Robert Wright, Thomas Friedman

#52. "Exciting Times"

Labels & Tags: great turning, Heather Eaton, human-Earth relationship, Julian Huxley, new cosmology, our great work, Ryan McCarl, Thomas Berry

#51. A New Series of Posts

Labels & Tags: David Crumm, Ewert Cousins, iPhone, Michael Jackson, Obama, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Second Axial period, Shalom Center, Thomas Berry

#50. The End of Patriarchy

Labels & Tags: Allan B. Chinen, Border Crossings, Eugene Monick, Joseph Jastrab, King Arthur, Matthew Fox, Maureen Dowd, Patrick Arnold, Robert Bly, Symbolic Species, T.S.Eliot, Terrence Deacon

#49. Evolutionary Spirituality

Labels & Tags: authenticity, Claude Tresmontant, Community of JohnXXIII, conversatio morum, cosmology, desert hermits, Exodus, Merton, Mountain Lake, Paul Evdokimov, Rowan Williams, Sister Emmanuelle, Sophia

#48. Do We Have a Future?

Labels & Tags: Abraham's Bosom, agnostic, biogenetic structuralism, Claude Tresmontant, cognitive imperative, culture, Divine Wisdom, dualism, Exodus, Jung, phobia, Sophia, soteria, Teilhard

#47. The Growing Edge

Labels & Tags: Arthur Waskow, blessing of water, Christmas Story, Claude Tresmontant, Dark Ages, ekklesia, Exodus, sangha, Sophia, spiritus, Teilhard, Theophany

#46. Convergence?

Labels & Tags: complexity, Divine Wisdom, emergence, Judeo-Christian tradition, religious dualism, scientific rationalism, spiritus

#45. Midnight Wisdom: Sophia as Provider

Labels & Tags: Brian Swimme, Dali Lama, Frontal lobe, Karl Rahner, kenosis, Liturgy, Maori, medicine wheel, Michael Conforti, scrotum, Sergius Bulgakov, solidity, Taoism, Taussig, Tresmontant, White Buffalo

#44. Noonday Wisdom: Sophia as Gatherer

Labels & Tags: Big Bang, Black Elk, Green Mouse of the South, Hal Taussig, Jung, Karl Rahner, medicine wheel, Mike Comins, new cosmology, patriarchy, Teilhard

#43. Morning Wisdom: Sophia as Guide

Labels & Tags: Claude Tresmontant, equinox, Exodus, golden eagle, Hal Taussig, Karl Rahner, Louis de Montfort, Matthew Fox, medicine wheel, morning star, Panikkar, pneuma, Steven Gallegos, trickster

#42. Evening Wisdom: Sophia as Architect

Labels & Tags: creativity, great turning, Hal Taussig, Halloween, Jung, limen, medicine wheel, meditation, Merton, Panikkar, Rahner, Rudolf Ritsema, Vedic Experience

#41. Four-fold Wisdom

Labels & Tags: biogenetic structuralism, Brad Blanton, Bruno Barnhart, Claude Tresmontant, Elisabeth Fiorenza, Frederick von Shelling, Jacob Boehm, Karl Rahner, Louis de Montfort, Michael Conforti, Thomas Merton

#40. Wisdom/Sophia

Labels & Tags: Claude Tresmontant, Comedy Channel, Enlightenment, Exodus, Gnosticism, Great Mother, hochma, logos, Neolithic Age, Proverbs, Sophia, Susan Jacoby, Wisdom literature 

#39. Hebrew Thought

Labels & Tags: Aristotle, being, Claude Tresmontant, Descartes, Exodus, Henri Bergson, Immense Transition, Isaiah, mutant, nabi, Neolithic Age, patriarchy, ruah, systems theory, Teilhard

#38. Exodus

Labels & Tags: Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Ecclesiastes, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Irenaeus of Lyons, Maximus the Confessor, Moses, Neolithic Age, Passover seder, Song of Meriam, Teilhard

#37. What's Next

Labels & Tags: Bible stories, Christmas Story, cognitive extension of prehension, cognized environment, David Brooks, Exodus, Henri de Lubac, National Education Association, neuroscience

#36. Aspects of the Immense Transition, Parts 3 & 4

Labels & Tags: Brian Swimme, Bruno Barnhart, creativity, freedom, grace, great turning, Ken Wilber, Kernnunos, Matthew Fox, post-modernism, Second Axial period, Sophia, Tao, trickster

#35. Aspects of the Immense Transition, Parts 1 & 2

Labels & Tags: agape, Axial Age, David Korten, Ewert Cousins, internet, Joanna Macy, Karl Jaspers, Karl Rahner, Loren Eisley, Michael Conforti, noosphere, Rudolf Ritsema, Rudyard Kipling, Teilhard

#34. Talking About Us

Labels & Tags: Bulgakov, ex nihilo, freedom, grace, Henri de Lubac, historicity, kenosis, Michael Conforti, new cosmology, Rahner's existentials, self-transcendence, Susan Jacoby

#33. Talking About God

Labels & Tags: Aquinas, Augustine, Book of Revelations, ex nihilo, Henri de Lubac, Karl Rahner, kenosis, Lamb slain, medicine wheel, Sergius Bulgakov, The Man Upstairs, theosis

#32. Comments Collected

Labels & Tags: gorillas, greeting the sun, immortal soul, Isabel Briggs Meyers, Karen Armstrong, Martin Buber, Mary Renault, Michael Brown, photosynthesis, Red Sea, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Berry, Zygon

#31. Integrating the Four Functions

Labels & Tags: Jim Wallis, Paleoltihic Hunting culture, patriarchy, quaternary consciousness, Shaun McNiff, Steven Gallegos, Steven Larsen, Thomas Berry

#30. Ways of Being Religious

Labels & Tags: asceticism, brain lobes, fours, Frederick J. Streng, Jung, matter, medicine wheel, Merton, Monday night football, ontogenesis, quaternary consciousness, SMU, space, Steven Gallegos, time

#29. The Four-fold Mind

Labels & Tags: Brad Blanton, brain lobes, Bruno Barnhart, carbon atom, Hyemeyohsts Storm, Jung, medicine wheel, Myers-Briggs, new cosmology, quaternary consciousness, Wicca

#28. "Where I'm At"

Labels & Tags: Christmas Story, cosmic calling, curiosity, e. e. cummings, enactment, four-fold consciousness, Merton, new cosmology, Paula Hirschboeck, tai chi, Teilhard, Universe Story, Zen

#27. Radical Honesty: The How-to of Ontogenesis

Labels & Tags: annata, belief, Brad Blanton, contemplation, ego-experience, Fritz Pearls, Gestalt, grace, Hugh Thomas, Jung, Merton, Myers-Briggs, myth, ritual, Rowe Camp, V.Gordon Child

#26. Help From Uncle Louie

Labels & Tags: change of heart, cosmology, efficacious sign-symbols, Greek tragedy, Japanese No drama, myth, power of images, ritual, Scavenger, symbol, Thomas Merton, transformation, Vision Quest, William Faulkner

#25. Ontogenesis: Phase Three

Labels & Tags: belief, contemplation, cosmology, culture, individuation, Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, myth, participation, personal experience, ritual, symbol, T.S.Eliot, Thomas Merton, trans-personal, zazen

#24. Ontogenesis: Phases One & Two

Labels & Tags: Andrew Newberg, belief, Brian Swimme, catechism, cosmology, cultural anthropology, culture, dualism, enculturation, neuro-gnosis, new cosmology, personal experience, rationalism, Thomas Berry

#23. Ontogenetic Development

Labels & Tags: anthropology, biological evolution, brain, complexity, consciousness, cultural anthropology, culture, gnosis, mind, ontogenesis, person, primates 

#22. The Other Half of "Person"

Labels & Tags: anthropology, biogenetic structuralism, Charles Taylor, Commonweal, cosmic evolution, cosmology, culture, individualism, myth, person, religion, ritual, science, shamanism, symbol

#21. Struggling with Words

Labels & Tags: Anthropology Plus, complexity, Dark Ages, diversity, dualism, myth, relativity, resurrection, ritual, sapiential, shamanism, symbol

#20. Resurrection of the Dead

Labels & Tags: anthropology, biological evolution, brain, Bulgakov, cognized environment, complexity, conscious awareness, cultural anthropology, neuro-gnosis, new cosmology, resurrection, Sophia, Vladimir Soloviev

#19. Diversity: Our Service to God

Labels & Tags: atoms, complexity, Cyril of Alexandria, E.O. Wilson, energy, Eternal Wisdom, galaxies, Lawrence Kushner, Louis de Montfort, matter, molecules, self-organizing systems, Sergius Bulgakov

#18. Called By the Universe

Labels & Tags: cognitive extension of prehension, cognized environment, creation, dualism, Empirical Modification Cycle, evolution, life, new cosmology, science, static worldview, Teilhard, universe, vocation

#17. What Is the Universe Doing?

Labels & Tags: cognized environment, creation, dualism, epiphany, gospel, great turning, new cosmology, person, Teilhard, Thomas Berry, unitive, vocation

#16. Our Own Inner World

Labels & Tags: brain, cognized environment, consciousness, cosmic evolution, DNA, Empirical Modification Cycle, life, matter, mind, reflectivity, Teilhard, Thomas M. King

#15. Re-view and Pre-view

Labels & Tags: Andrew Newberg, anthropos, biogenetic structuralism, biological evolution, cosmos, creeds, cultural anthropology, freedom, human spirit, myth, new cosmology, ritual, static worldview, symbol, theos

#14. Person as Process

Labels & Tags: Aquinas, biogenetic structuralism, DNA, Empirical Modification Cycle, Immense Transition, interiority, Jay Tolson, Julian Huxley, Martin Buber, mystery, reflectivity, ritual, spirituality

#13. Cognized Environment

Labels & Tags: biogenetic structuralism, brain, consciousness, culture, dualism, evolution, neo-anthropocentricity, neuro-gnosis, person, relationships, spirituality, Teilhard, universe

#12. The Cognitive Extension of Prehension

Labels & Tags: brain, cognized environment, consciousness, creativity, freedom, matter, neuro-gnosis, new cosmology, pneuma, prehension, religion, science, Teilhard

#11. The End of Dualism

Labels & Tags: animal behavior, animal consciousness, cognized environment, consciousness, dualism, evolution, Mary Conrow Coelho, neuro-gnosis, person, prehension, primates, psycho-genesis, Teilhard

#10. Overview of Biogenetic Structuralism

Labels & Tags: biogenetic structuralism, brain, cognitive imperative, cognized environment, consciousness, cosmic evolution, creativity, neuro-gnosis, prehension

#9. "Exchange of Thought"

Labels & Tags: animal consciousness, biogenetic structuralism, biosphere, noosphere, Teilhard

#8. Background to Biogenetic Structuralism

Labels & Tags: Akashic Field, biogenetic structuralism, Bulgakov, Claude Levi-Strauss, David Bohm, Immense Transition, Implicate Order, individuation, Jung, myth, ritual, shamanism, symbol 

#7. Brief Autobiography

Labels & Tags: Allan B. Chinen, Amazon Basin, Andrew Newberg, biogenetic structuralism, Borneo, John Yungblut, Jung, Merton, Origin of Species, ritual, rock art, sacred manhood, Teilhard, Vision Quest

#6. Tai Chi

Labels & Tags: biogenetic structuralism, Ellen M. Chen, enantiadromia, Gregory Nazienzus, matter, mind, new cosmology, pneuma, Sophia, spiritus, tai chi, tantien, Tao, Tao Te Ching, Teilhard, Thomas Berry

#5. Alternative to "Human Nature Redux"

Labels & Tags: David Brooks, death, evil, human nature, last word, new cosmology, spring, Thomas Berry, Zhivago

#4. The "Biogenetic" Perspective

Labels & Tags: animal behavior, Barbara J. King, biogenetic structuralism, evolution, origins of religion, salon.com

#3. High School 50th-Anniversary Report

Labels & Tags: Andrew Newberg, biogenetic structuralism, Black Elk, Bruno Barnhart, D'Aquili, ekklesia, Mary Conrow Coelho, medicine wheel, person, Plenum, sacred manhood, Sophia, stardust, Teilhard, trickster

#2. Spirituality Research Symposium

Labels & Tags: Andrew Newberg, Michael Dowd, new cosmology, person, religion, science, spirituality research, Thomas Berry, Timothy Ware

#1. On Recent Developments in Science and Religion

Labels & Tags: Andrew Newberg, biogenetic structuralism, Bulgakov, Charles Laughlin, evolution, John McManus, matter, mind, new cosmology, quantum mechanics, ritual, sophiology, symbols, Teilhard

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