Clutter images Rob Horning 9.16.2022

1. In consumer society we feel useful when we participate in the circulation of goods.

2. Hoarding is a way to adapt to the quantified life; a way of upping your score.

3. Collecting dots creates a hoard where you cede intention to chance encounters with miscellaneous stuff.

4. In the digital realm as objects,... See more

A true fidelity to the tradition must be one that leaves open the possibility that the orthodoxies of the present ... may yet be surpassed by a fuller revelation of the truth, one that will be wholly given only at the end of tradition’s long historical course. 152

David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022

Once upon a time, Christianity grew and endured and even flourished over the course of many generations in total and blissful ignorance of any officially defined dogma, any single recognized canon of scripture, anything remotely like the systematic or dogmatic theologies of the coming ages of Christendom and after. 133

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We need to hear the verses of the Torah like musical phrases holding many, even contradictory paths.

“Where Are You? Religious Truth is Relational” Zohar Atkins 11.11.2022

... Christianity entered human history not as a new creed or sapiential path or system of religious observance, but as apocalypse: the sudden unveiling of a mystery hidden in God before the foundation of the world in a historical event without any possible precedent or any conceivable sequel .... 135

David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022

God’s recognition that it is not good to be alone leads to his creation of an ezer k’nedo (an antagonistic helper) for the human being, Adam. ... The reason it’s the woman who gets emphasized is that we might presume her only to be an ezer, only a helper, only a yay-sayer. But the k’negdo part means that she helps by opposing, by being different;... See more

And so - just as the reiterations and returns of ritual and liturgy displace the empty flow of ordinary time with ... the living eternity of penitential and joyous repetition - a living tradition ... displaces the rule of bare history with the adventure of a coherent journey ... from a remote beginning to a remote end. 144

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... the Kingdom was preached, but it was the church, with its often almost comically corrupt and divisive institutional form, that arrived. 138

David Hart Tradition and Apocalypse 2022

Maslow’s Hierarchy and Self-Transcendance:

That old Abe Maslow Hierarchy of Needs that Boomers loved so much

because it placed their own preferred "Self Actualization" at the tippy top

also has a reverse gear.

We can slipslide back down to Food, Clothing and Shelter at the bottom

of the stack just as easily as we can levitate to the higher reaches of

spi... See more