What We Need to Advance
“The conditions of advance are these: global unity of mankind’s noetic organization or system of awareness, but a high degree of variety within that unity; love, with goodwill and full cooperation; personal integration and internal harmony; and increasing knowledge….
We, mankind, contain the possibilities of the earth’s immense future, and can realize more and more of them on condition that we increase our knowledge and our love.”
–Julian Huxley (English Evolutionary Biologist, 1887-1975)
Sensing the Fabric of Life
“The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the meeting of land and water. Yet it is a world that keeps alive the sense of continuing creation and of the relentless drive of life. Each time I enter it, I gain some new awareness of its beauty and its deeper meanings, sensing that intricate fabric of life by which one creature is linked with another, and each with its surroundings.”
–Rachel Carson (American Biologist and Writer, 1907-1964)
Alive With Godhead
“Jesus saw and knew that the entire creation was alive with Godhead; he saw and knew that at the core of human consciousness lay a spark of divine consciousness in which the glory of the Godhead is always reflected and which is one with the Godhead.”
–Andrew Harvey (Indian-born English Philosopher, 1952-)
The True Nature of Things
“The Sioux idea of living creatures is that trees, buffalo and man are temporary energy swirls, turbulent patterns. You find that perception registered so many ways in archaic and primitive lore. I say that it is probably the most basic insight into the nature of things, and that our more common, recent Occidental view of the universe as consisting of fixed things is out of the main stream, a deviation from basic human perception.”
–Gary Snyder (American Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet, 1930-)
The Web of Life
“The ‘web of life’ is, of course, an ancient idea, which has been used by poets, philosophers, and mystics throughout the ages to convey their sense of the interwovenness and interdependence of all phenomena.”
–Fritjof Capra (Austrian-born American Physicist, Futurist and Writer, 1939-)
The Web of Life, A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
The Garment of God
“Nature is the living, visible garment of God.”
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet, Playwright and Philosopher, 1749-1832)
“The Encyclopedia of Religious Quotation” (Frank S., ED. Mead)
The Web of Life
“Working with every conceivable kind of insect and animal from the protozoa upward, biologists have discovered a world of wondrously vast and orderly linkages and feedback loops between our environment and all organisms.”
–David Loye (American Psychologist, Evolutionary Systems Theorist and Author, 1925-)
“The Sphinx and the Rainbow: Brain, Mind, and Future Vision” (David Loye)
Alive, Conscious Awareness
“God is an energy field of alive, conscious awareness, pulsating and singing with life force through your Wholeness – and your body is part of that Wholeness.”
–Mary-Margaret Moore (American Writer, Counselor and Channel of “Bartholomew”)
The Interdependent Web of Being
“The Logos connects everything in the interdependent web of being.”
–Richard Leviton (American Writer, Editor and Mystic, 1950-)
God’s Activity
“God’s activity runs through the entire universe. It wells up around and penetrates every created being. Wherever they are, it is there also. It runs ahead of them, it stays with them, and it follows after them.”
–Jean-Pierre de Caussade (French Jesuit Priest and Author, 1675-1751)
