Bogosity

Brother William’s most recent blog post dicusses St Francis, nature, the environmental crisis, mysticism, the meaning of life and of course, qantum physics (I challenge William to write a blog post that doesn’t mention qantum physics).

The Divine Universe » THE HEAVENLY FOOL

Here’s a few bits that I really liked:

The resurgence of mysticism in the West, some of it in the church, may have come at a providential time. Those with a mystical and contemplative bent were probably the first to appreciate what the scientists were saying. There are mystics in the science community too. Quantum physics has made a strong appeal among many who are interested in what they call “spirituality”. Quantum physicists recognise clearly the unity of everything in a mysterious, dynamic dance of energy. Each of us is not only related to everyone else; we are remotely related in cosmic energy fields to everything, even the most distant galaxies.

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The post-modern philosopher, Don Cupitt, once nearly died of heart failure several times within a few days. In a book written later I came upon these words.

“We seem to have forgotten how to die. . . . We live by dying, unattached, pouring ourselves into the flux of life in such a way that death, when it comes, is not a threat but a consummation.”

He could well have had St Francis in mind. In this age of individualism, such thoughts of total absorption into the flux of life totally contradict the spirit of our time.