o Self is a construct of reason… the reasoning mind of existence… thus it follows the patterns of that mind; the patterns of addition, extension, and expansion… e.g., adding knowledge, adding others, extending self, expanding boundaries, etc., with self as central – that out from which all else flows… e.g., my family, my faith, my freedom, my work, my country, etc. We continue along a path of separation, fractionation, etc.
o The children – all the children in the world – is a construct of wisdom… the wisdom of intent. As such it calls upon the intuition of wholeness, the mind of essence, and follows the process of intent, intentionality, that is, will imbued with love, love imbued with will… and the intentional upward unfolding of life… the path of and from life. With the children as central, we see that community is the smallest whole… we see a culture that is sourced in the all-inclusive love of the Source as being both necessary and the means for realizing our potential… for building the soul of humanity, for manifesting our uniqueness/essence in value adding, life eternalizing ways. In contrast, our current culture, being organized around self, led by reason, quite naturally follows a pattern of my will.
o The domain of good is the extent, the ultimate expression of the world of our making. We can see the virtue of goodness as being a necessary aim to sustain the potential for our becoming intentional people, i.e. maintaining our connection to the Source. We have seen individuals who have kept this possibility alive… people who, in spite of the culture, people untainted so to speak, who have maintained a high level of goodness and connection to the Source… people developing within the restraints of reason-led thinking and culture which produces such concepts as my soul, my relationship with God, etc. However goodness, in the absence of a life of the whole perspective, has run its course. We have gotten all that can be realized from that. Not suggesting that we dismiss the notions of goodness – being good, doing good – but it is necessary at this time to see the limitations of that and the ongoing inability to resolve the decaying vitality of life. Within this we can see heaven as a useful/perhaps necessary construct to sustain the aim of goodness in the world of our making. The intentional world, however, seems to be lifting up the notion of the coming of the kingdom… given that we have no experience of the world of intent, it is hard to imagine what that looks like, will be like… thus the demand for faith in intent… original faith in original intent.
o The world of our making is a construct of reason, the reasoning mind of existence… a reductionist process that is diminishing the vitality of life, the whole of life. One begins to wonder if “the end of the world” is referring to the end of the world of our making. It is not difficult to see the unsustainability of the path we are on… not just in terms of our children, but the whole of life.
o Much of this seeing seems to be emerging from the understanding that the whole of human experience, and the competing theologies of science and religion – reason based, reason pursued reasoned interpretation – starts from unintentional man… man who ate the apple of knowledge, took that with him, and turned his back on wisdom, the wisdom of intent; and walked away from the path of original intent. Thus from that time on we have been present to, living within the world of our making… the world of the reasoning mind of existence… the mind that requires structure to have meaning, pursues reductionism, fractionation, segmentation, separation, and self-centeredness… all of which leads to pursuits of power over and control of… natural manifestations of seeing ourselves as source… source of direction, directional source…
o And finally, for now, we can see the living out of the Father’s command of eternal life, and the mother’s command of work for all my children both requiring, and becoming possible through, all the children of the world being the central organizing notion… providing of course that love – all inclusive love – is present in the process. This writing has brought to my mind the memory of a declaration from my mother, one echoed by her mother. Her statement came out during a national discourse around the death penalty. She said, “Only God can take a life… that is the work of God.” Today I can see that in the context of the diminishing vitality of life on this earth… this earth, this place of life created by the Source… this land that belongs to the Creator… this land that we cannot own… here too the ultimate decision belongs to the Creator. Yet our “Yes” to intentionality seems critical… critical to the eternalizing of life.
Terry P. Anderson, Philosopher of Potential
