By Andrew Jerry TAN
I write with an inquisitive desire for the truths of the matter about that which can be contemplated versus those which can be experienced Without as well as Within (Teilhard) my personal being (universe) to be ontologically the only real fruits of the spirit (human energetics). By this, I offer no apologetics or discourse in formulating another theology other than an approach of the heart to connect the personalization encounter of God in the human psyche.
To start this conversation, I will proceed to say that I embrace a good portion of the Teilhardistic connection of science to religion as expounded in his books - The Phenomenon of Man, and the Divine Milieu. I will not explain the terms referenced here but suffice to nudge that the true seeker of truths must only experience them from a presence of inner being, and therefore I urge a faithful awareness steeped sufficiently in psychology, Christian mysticism, science and philosophy (on the reader's part) together with the readings suggested herein to have an open interchange about assimilating a heightened inner consciousness for even trying to ingest these visions from Within, that is to say with God being the active life-giver upon one's moment of Passive Diminishment (Teilhard). That is not to say that this is about Christianity in the light of religious choice but that the Christian framework is a good reference point to start to understand how to encounter The Creator in our own human consciousness, and therefore, the meaning of ourselves in intent in our most intimate sense.
The purpose of any inclination about my experienced personalized vision is only for empathetic synthesis of souls as they are built up in everyday living, almost to the extent of saying that the Christian heaven as promised is to be the extension of biologically intelligent matter into a hominization of a Spirit center of eternal energies where space and time will be consumed, where, as Teilhard puts it, souls will add to God's revelation at Omega Point as God will sustain them as they become perfecting parts in Him. In other words, God-energy (love) has 'breath' to sustain a body beyond corporeal death by hollowing out un-perfected consciousness through its replacement with a Supreme Personal Consciousness, where in this spirit, matter will live forever.
To simplify this vision, I will describe what I believe are five major themes as distilled from a breakdown of psychico-physical elements and reconstitute them into a unifying experience so urgently needed of Teilhard's Personalization Universes:
1. Evolution of the phenomenon of Man is the rise of a super-consciousness that completes at Omega Point as matter develops intelligence and life from primordial dusts into Personalization Universes of the human soul. At the mystery of Christ's Passion about Revelation, souls enter into a different material realm of dissolved space-time.
2. The Theology of the Body (John Paul II) espouses the need to manifest the sustaining evolution of a growing universal Spirit through Its bodies as ontologically given by sensory experiences of Love. As matter can only substantiate its intelligent evolution beyond atoms into molecules and cells, and sensual acts of mystical love and union which embodies a redemptive divine origin Within the Source of Creation, so must Love be the energy that binds the soul in union with Supreme Consciousness. Cosmology will give way to a universe of divine personalities where time and space will be eaten up by the latter (Teilhard).
3. Man's phenomenon is the revelation of the Trinity in the Father, the body of the Son of Man as given up, and the Holy Spirit coming Within and Without us, mirroring respectively, the Supreme Consciousness Accumulation Point of Personalization Universes at Omega Point, Man's body, and his evolving consciousness. To say that soul is superconsciousness and body is that part of superconsciousnness being conscious of itself is reasonable. The uptake of the Son of Man into the Father is indeed to show that Christ's Passion, for divine union of human desire in love of a Personalized Universe at Omega Point, is necessarily required to hold the Supreme Personal Consciousness as the new body and spirit beyond space and time. Love is your fruit, nothing else detracts from that.
4. The perception of sin as integral to superconsciousness. Without the abyss, there is no peak. Sin is a waste of Man's evoluting of his consciousness, the lesser he has of it, the closer he gets to his Supreme Personal Consciousness. Mystics become super-humans when they experience the choice of love over fear. They talk about the Earth in a new spirit (Teilhard). Mother Theresa, Edith Stein, Edgar Cayce, Teilhard, St Augustine, Padre Pio, and many more, these did not subsist the subjection of external knowledge about Christianity, they instead experienced their own Supreme Personal Consciousness and substantiated the label of God in their own ways.
5. The Origin of Sin is the genotype (nature) of any consciousness-soul evolving away from its Supreme Personal Consciousness. Sin is the phenotype (nurture) of a human consciousness beyond an awareness of evil, it focuses to evolve a consciousness surrounding the perception of evil. Whilst sin stems through the cerebral eyes of Man from programming situations of Passive Diminishment, love overcomes this lower consciousness (in the active personal experience of God) to evolve it to a higher one closer to a Supreme Personal Consciousness, through the essences of the body. That which is love cannot be sin, for love grants itself as the only force to feed the expansion of consciousness toward a personalized world of divine humanity. Those who suspect love proclaim only a religion of fearful righteousness about what their consciousness should not become, for they attract the very essence that they abhor.
In the event of my exploration of truths about the very meaning of life's purpose bestowed upon co-creating Man by a self-knowing and self-building Creator, I can only write about my experiences of an inner sense-perception based on what Teilhard has conjectured as a 'coming' of the soul's eyes with which more will expect to see such phenomenon (100th Monkey-Syndrome). The inquisition of truths is a gentle one, but it will come across as alien and even a rude shock to the half-educated as many choose to live like the mechanistic existence of atoms.
The vision of consciousness and/or phenomenology cannot be put in simple terms much as visionaries like Teilhard or Edith Stein tried to make as clear as possible their somewhat incommunicable knowings to the world - for if it was simple enough, mankind would have already evolved to that stage of profundity in a collective understanding. The coming age of information and people as drivers of consciousness moves consciousness to points of concentration and build-up only where persons are willing to avail to themselves the vast and yet rich complexities of psyches offered by Plato, Aristotle, Einstein, Jesus, Jung, and the lesser known in the likes of Edith Stein and Teilhard, to name a few.
The onus then, for philanthropic purpose in the phenomenology of Man, is to avail subsequently to mankind a reservoir of empirical studies about human energetics, by measuring the causation and effects of the consciousness of its phenomenon.
Readings
1. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jacques.abbatucci/references.htm <http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jacques.abbatucci/references.htm>
2. The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard
3. Divine Milieu, Teilhard
4. On the problem of empathy, Edith Stein