Thank you, Jonathan, for your timely post today. And it connects with Jamie Wheal's take on the simple yet profound ritual sacrifice of paying attention -- and thereby giving one's time -- to small things that matter. https://substack.com/profile/16082705-kathryn-kang/note/c-52690669
Growing up in a very conservative Catholic environment, sacrifice, especially when it is linked to love, is a concept that has defined my life. Unlearning the meaning I was taught has been a significant task over the past decade. Now that I finally feel at peace with my roots and my departure from my former beliefs, I came across this beautiful piece, and… (I will keep the rest to myself). Muchas gracias, Jonathan. ❍
I appreciate the intricacies you point to so beautifully, Jonathan, and the notion of joyous struggle itself. I actually broke my own habit and became a paid subscriber, till and if I need to change. The future we (I) want is based on my values!
Hi Jonathan, thank you for your enlightening and insightful article about the power and significance of Easter.
I was troubled by your reference to Jesus as a Palestinian Jew when there was no Palestinian entity at that time, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea.
This article by a professor of ancient Christianity at Boston University, whilst polemical in nature, is helpful in explaining why it is historically inaccurate and an act of cultural and political appropriation to write that Jesus was a Palestinian Jew.
We can believe what we will. I love your joyful dance around the bowl of hot porridge, just like the Pixies in Nordic attics at Christmastime.
Today is the world between. Yesterday constituted a metacrises. And tomorrow will constitute metanoia, a change of mind for a joyous life. Let us not reject true Life. A life operating at all scales. This is Nature and true divine understanding. Yesterday I read from Mathew 5 to 7 the undiluted voice of Christ, the voice mankind seems to deny more and more on the altar of non-Darwinian Neo evolutionary religion. I love Easter Sunday, a day for celebrating new Life.
As Jesus said: "I have come that you may have Life in all its fulness." For me, this is new every morning through a lifetime of experienced realisations of Computational Reality Processing, leading to the end of confusion of the work of life. All Life we are currently discovering emerges from observing Nature at the microscopic scale and realising everything to be purposefully organised.
Happy Easter Sunday, brothers.
Love brother Nelson.
P.S. Why is it so damn difficult to express reality in words?
"That struggle with despair and hope defines the human condition, and Easter Saturday can therefore be seen as a microcosm of our whole lives. Perhaps the reason we don’t hear much about Easter Saturday is that we live it every day." You've put your finger on something very important here. Parker J Palmer calls this living in the tragic gap, between the harsh realities that crush our spirits and overwhelm us and the real world possibilities, life as we know it can be, could be or ought to be.
I'm grateful that you are one of a few people, here and through Perspectiva (e.g. the recent piece Cross with the Hemispheres), willing to speak in public about spiritual matters, "questions about the ultimate nature, meaning and purpose of existence".
In terms of this piece, I appreciate the exploration of sacrifice and I find the extended analogy of chess to explore Easter jarring and reductionist.
Thank you, Jonathan, for your timely post today. And it connects with Jamie Wheal's take on the simple yet profound ritual sacrifice of paying attention -- and thereby giving one's time -- to small things that matter. https://substack.com/profile/16082705-kathryn-kang/note/c-52690669
Growing up in a very conservative Catholic environment, sacrifice, especially when it is linked to love, is a concept that has defined my life. Unlearning the meaning I was taught has been a significant task over the past decade. Now that I finally feel at peace with my roots and my departure from my former beliefs, I came across this beautiful piece, and… (I will keep the rest to myself). Muchas gracias, Jonathan. ❍
I appreciate the intricacies you point to so beautifully, Jonathan, and the notion of joyous struggle itself. I actually broke my own habit and became a paid subscriber, till and if I need to change. The future we (I) want is based on my values!
I too appreciate the break in ordinary time — and I very much I appreciate this break in the ordinary conversation. 🙏🏽
Hi Jonathan, thank you for your enlightening and insightful article about the power and significance of Easter.
I was troubled by your reference to Jesus as a Palestinian Jew when there was no Palestinian entity at that time, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea.
This article by a professor of ancient Christianity at Boston University, whilst polemical in nature, is helpful in explaining why it is historically inaccurate and an act of cultural and political appropriation to write that Jesus was a Palestinian Jew.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/28/easter-jesus-not-palestinian-jew/#
I would be super grateful to hear your thoughts on this and why you decided to refer to Jesus in this way?
Many thanks.
We can believe what we will. I love your joyful dance around the bowl of hot porridge, just like the Pixies in Nordic attics at Christmastime.
Today is the world between. Yesterday constituted a metacrises. And tomorrow will constitute metanoia, a change of mind for a joyous life. Let us not reject true Life. A life operating at all scales. This is Nature and true divine understanding. Yesterday I read from Mathew 5 to 7 the undiluted voice of Christ, the voice mankind seems to deny more and more on the altar of non-Darwinian Neo evolutionary religion. I love Easter Sunday, a day for celebrating new Life.
As Jesus said: "I have come that you may have Life in all its fulness." For me, this is new every morning through a lifetime of experienced realisations of Computational Reality Processing, leading to the end of confusion of the work of life. All Life we are currently discovering emerges from observing Nature at the microscopic scale and realising everything to be purposefully organised.
Happy Easter Sunday, brothers.
Love brother Nelson.
P.S. Why is it so damn difficult to express reality in words?
"That struggle with despair and hope defines the human condition, and Easter Saturday can therefore be seen as a microcosm of our whole lives. Perhaps the reason we don’t hear much about Easter Saturday is that we live it every day." You've put your finger on something very important here. Parker J Palmer calls this living in the tragic gap, between the harsh realities that crush our spirits and overwhelm us and the real world possibilities, life as we know it can be, could be or ought to be.
I'm grateful that you are one of a few people, here and through Perspectiva (e.g. the recent piece Cross with the Hemispheres), willing to speak in public about spiritual matters, "questions about the ultimate nature, meaning and purpose of existence".
In terms of this piece, I appreciate the exploration of sacrifice and I find the extended analogy of chess to explore Easter jarring and reductionist.