Thomas Berry and the Evocation of Participatory Consciousness

Posted by Bonnie Bright on August 3, 2012 at 1:13pm

Just came across this beautiful article about Thomas Berry by Geneen Marie Haugen about Berry's ideas about "participatory consciousness" with Earth and wanted to share it here:

Thomas Berry and the Evocation of Participatory Consciousness

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  • Laurie Corzett August 5, 2012 at 2:18pm
    Endtime Stories
    I have vast wealth of food and drink
    more than one would need in a week
    and nothing to do all day but play and dream
    the end of days is better than it might seem
    It’s ok to smile,
    free to feel fine
    as we slide forever
    out of time
    beyond belief
    Still seeking revenge for my birth
    by fading away
    without worth or meaning.
    Lazy, ungrateful, no useful purpose.
    Unable to simply give in to being.
    What if it’s not about reciprocity,
    velocity, jealousy masked as scorn?
    What if the secret unsheathed is
    once conceived, gestated, born
    random occurrences synthesize as stories?
    Phantom worries, feigned remorse
    coalesce as lessons, stake the course;
    but only synapse deep, lightly tangled weave.
    Tales like talismans gently spin. Tell me,
    tell me, tell me my name and my mission.
    It can’t be my decision. I am too weak,
    too tame.
    Flickers, auroras in peripheral vision,
    fits of flitting firefly hues, crystal
    gems emitting signals in dark and light.
    Constellations in the night corralling chaos.
    Prayer, meditation, fast of purity, breath
    centered on the wind, stillness, serene.
    Not a lake, but a river, sailing into sea.
    These stories, told as if we know,
    as if they are the campfire that formed us
    from mud and mystery.
    These are not our essence.
    We are the fire, the river, the gemstones,
    ever falling from the sea.
    August 5, 2012
  • Willi Paul August 3, 2012 at 8:58pm
    Transition Tales
     
    It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how we fit into it, is no longer effective. Yet we have not learned the new story.

    --Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth
    http://transitionla.org/TransitionTales.htm
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