We use 'god' as verb not the 'divine'
which doesn't exist...sacredness exists. It is nature as being...(we can have
the intuition of being)... which is 'super' with its 'internal integrity'.
Hence the word supernatural...sacredness is supernatural. What we call
the divine is supranatural...as if floating 'down' from'above'. And we
have been choking on the divine when sacredness is all around us....'ising'
in the cosmos with its 'internal integrity' of order including creation and
destruction, beauty, uniqueness etc.. 'Mother Nature' is in charge!
This is Richard Tarnas' approach who spent years writing The
Passion of the Western Mind which he calls an introduction to the thesis
which he lays forth in Cosmos and Psyche. I call it
'the Interior integrity of the cosmos' of which man is a part...an important
but not more essential than any other part. We 'know' the cosmos when we
recognize that there is vital relationship among its 'parts'...a
relationship which we call 'sacred' because it is a huge almost
unimaginable liturgy. These moderns think that we can know this 'sacredness'
not from the phenomena but from the relationship of the phenomena,
relationships which we are slowly uncovering---from black holes to quantum
entities, and everything 'in between'.
We know 'god' as verb not as noun...and try not choke
on the divine when the sacred is all around us.
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