Aphorism of the Day, May 2023

Aphorism of the Day, May 31, 2023

Christians try to reduce Total Synchronicity to linear space time unfolding; hence the Trinity.  Let trinitarian thinking lead us back to incomprehensible Synchronicity.

Aphorism of the Day, May 30, 2023

Personhood is known to be significantly meaningful in human experience because of language.  Language and personhood go together.  Everything which comes to language is personal, including the divine.

Aphorism of the Day, May 29, 2023

Language is evidence of relationality within which personhood resides.  Personhood is a superlative of relationship.  It has become obvious to many to project personhood on "that which none greater can be conceived."  Why would greatness not possess supreme personhood?

Aphorism of the Day, May 28, 2023

Spirit is the name we give to the impossible task of harmonizing diversity not to erase the immense differences but to celebrate the wholeness of peaceful functioning togetherness.

Aphorism of the Day, May 27, 2023

Sometimes the stories and the poetry get old and do not speak in the say way in which they used to.  When the poetry gets old, write your own.

Aphorism of the Day, May 26, 2023

The space between us is not empty, it is like a copper wire which conducts electricity, it is Holy Spirit Being conducting dynamic mutual reciprocal experience between beings.

Aphorism of the Day, May 25, 2023

How can mutual experience happen in separating distances between beings?  The space between beings is not empty, it is a Reality that enables the conducting of mutual experience.  That Reality might be named Spirit.

Aphorism of the Day, May 24, 2023

Is Spirit another Signifier of explaining the omnipresence of Word in all that can be known?

Aphorism of the Day, May 23, 2023

The Jesus Movement was founded upon the resonance of the poetry of the Risen Christ within the hearts of so many, resonant enough to create social identity and cohesion.

Aphorism of the Day, May 22, 2023

A meaning of Pentecost?  Turning the once held belief of polyglottic humanity into the blessed state of harmony amid diversity.

Aphorism of the Day, May 21, 2023

The main relic of human existence is language.  It purports to carry traces of the past to the present with stability of meanings even when we know that what is stable is that all meanings evolve and change as they get altered with new contexts in time.

Aphorism of the Day, May 20, 2023

The place to locate biblical discourse is mainly in aesthetic discourse, a language to move the heart.  If one is led to believe that only scientific discourse is meaningful, then one has to present biblical discourse as scientific discourse, or one can maintain the meaningful truths of beauty in its many discursive forms.  Religionists have been fighting wrong battles with science for years; there need not be a battle if multi-discursive being can walk science and chew aesthetic discourse at the same time.

Aphorism of the Day, May 19, 2023

Persons who have had biblical words form their vocabularies from their childhood can go through adjustments of how to process those words.  Most of the words get relegated to poetic status as language of the heart rather than words which report empirically verifiable events.

Aphorism of the Day, May 18, 2023  (Ascension Day)

The Ascension is the explanation for the absence of the historical Jesus and the transition to the mode of knowing the Risen Christ through inward "spiritual" experience.  The outer Jesus became the inward Christ within the Jesus Movement and the Ascension is the transition story from the particularly located Jesus in space and time to the Christ of being All and in all.  This is a crucial poetic explanation in Christian mysticism.

Aphorism of the Day, May 17, 2023

The prayer of Jesus in John's Gospel comes from a liminal location as Jesus says, "I am no longer in the world."  It could be the inner world is always a liminal location since the inner world is a world of multiverses.  The words of the Gospel derived from the multiverses experienced by Gospel writers.

Aphorism of the Day, May 16, 2023

Johannine belief was that Jesus was one with his Father-God.  In the prayer of Jesus as written by the Johannine writer, Jesus asks that his followers might be one with the Father-God too.  This might be called the ever emptying of the divine within the order of existence, the All that is within all.

Aphorism of the Day, May 15, 2023

The Gospels mix the Risen Christ experience of the Jesus Movement decades after Jesus lived with a narrative of the life of Jesus.  It mixes the past life of Jesus with the present life of the Risen Christ.  In old film life, one would call it double exposure.

Aphorism of the Day, May 14, 2023

For around nine months, in our pre-birth states, we lived, and moved, and had our being within our mothers.  If we live and move and have our being in God, we can never leave the God-womb.

Aphorism of the Day, May 13, 2023

If we live and move and have being in God, we are contained.  And God as greatest conscious container perceives all that is contain with care, but an extremely mature care which does not violate the freedom which makes moral significance.  You and I contain in limited ways all that we perceive and yet we can't control all that we perceive.  We, too, are vulnerable, like God, to the genuine freedom which we perceive to be happening.  Perception as containment does not mean strict and coercive control.

Aphorism of the Day, May 12, 2023

Can we accept the superiority of freedom with an entire field of probable occurrences even when specific events of freedom do not seem to favor us?

Aphorism of the Day, May 11, 2023

When we forget time and process, we can present being bereft of becoming and assume a synchronous everywhere, everything, in an all at once fatalism.  Time and newness needs to be honored.  We need to understand "last days" as merely "latest days."

Aphorism of the Day, May 10, 2023

In the account of St. Paul's response to the inscription "to an unknown God," Paul expounds his belief in a personal God, One who contains all, and One who can be a personal presence to all.  That language is the personal medium, means that all things including the Greatness of All is personally perceived.  Having language, in our anthropomorphic prison, we cannot help but project the personal on everything.  The degree of projecting reciprocal personal divine response toward us is to answer Einstein's question of "Is the universe friendly?" with a resounding "yes."

Aphorism of the Day, May 9, 2023

If as St. Paul of the Acts of the Apostles is cited saying, "We are all God's offspring," the Jesus unique divine offspring serves as the one who calls us to realize our divine familial likeness.

Aphorism of the Day, May 8, 2023

St. Paul understood God as being the outer most horizon creating the ultimate environment as expressed in a saying attributed to him in the Acts of the Apostles: "In God we live, and move, and have our being."   In the processive mode it would be stated as this: In omni-Becoming, we are all becoming.  This mode acknowledges continuous expanding creation.

Aphorism of the Day, May 7, 2023

How could Jesus promise that his disciples would do greater things?  An endless future is quantitatively greater than the three years of his earthly ministry.

Aphorism of the Day, May 6, 2023

"If you have seen me, you have seen the Father."  These words of Jesus in John's Gospel are model words which reflect the incarnational theology of Genesis of humanity being made in the image and likeness of God.  This likeness is the foundational basis for the validity of being anthropomorphic regarding the divine.

Aphorism of the Day, May 5, 2023

John's Gospel presents Jesus as preparing his disciples for his eventual absence.  An orphan is one who might worry about having a future home.  Not only do the words of Jesus indicate that the disciples would not be left as "orphans," perhaps spiritual orphans and parentless; rather God as heavenly parent will continue to have many places for all to dwell.

Aphorism of the Day, May 4, 2023

In Johannine metaphors, Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  These correspond to the signs in John's Gospel, of making a man ambulatory to walk in the way, of healing a blind man to see truth, and of raising Lazarus to life.  Reading John's as a self-referential work is crucial to understanding implied meanings.

 Gospel Aphorism of the Day, May 3, 2023

The "fatherization" of God is most pronounced in the words of Jesus channeled in the Gospel of John.  "Show us the Father," says Philip.  As a child bears the genetic likeness of the parents, so the Jesus of the writer of John uses the Father/Son metaphor to indicate that the divine likeness can be seen in all that has being.  If we see anything, we see it in the context of Plenitude.

Aphorism of the Day, May 2, 2023

Another name for God's house is time.  Everyone and everything always already lives in time.  Time is cumulatively everlasting making past and present synchronically equal in existence.  The present can never make the past to never have existed.

Aphorism of the Day, May 1, 2023
The Johannine words of Jesus about his Father having dwelling places is the poetry of a homing God who indwells the people of this world.