Rather, this indifference is, in stark tones and colors, feelings and intuition, the impact of a real environment of the earth onto the bodily immediacy of human consciousness: of what it means to be abandoned and free at the same time where life and death come closest together where the absence of restrictive human laws and the contingencies of the nomad fuse on a surface that dictates its own rules for the necessities of survival. Here, the physical experience of indifference is more than just a symbolic representation of nondualism, the indifference of Reality from all realities. In mystical topology, it is perhaps closest to the feeling of what it means that God is like the sun that shines over good and evil (Matthew 5).
While the desert is a place where no one is the place of immediate experience of human contingency and divine transcendence: survival is a pure gift. Roland Faber, THE COSMIC SPIRIT Awakenings at the Heart of All Religions, the Earth, and the Multiverse
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The paradoxes of the desert haunt human imagination of dangers and surprises: while it is dry, you can find water while it is empty, you may uncover oases while it promises you to be parched, it might drown you while it is a reminder of death, it may be full of life while it seems to be abandoned, it may be the space of liberation while it creeps towards fecund land, it warns us of wasting the mercy of the earth to sustain us while it situates the wanderer, emigrant, nomad or fugitive into sceneries and scenarios of desolation, its formidable fierceness is patient to the travelers, offering them islands of life, water, food, relaxation, and rest. They can be of high or low elevation sand or rock or ice with or without annual torrents of rain continental or seaside flat or mountainous hot or cold, or both habitable or inhabitable hostile or connective bland or subtle. Gobi, Kalahari, Sahara, Patagonia, Syria, Arabia, Karakoram, Atacama, Antarctica-their topography is nothing alike. May this page inspire you to make your own way into that desert which, fraught with danger and solitude, solitariness and stillness, offers an oasis of abundant life.ĭesert is not desert. People will find God in other people and in the desert, knowing that deserts have integrity in their own right and are also mentors for spiritual growth. What might spirituality look like in such a civilization? It will move beyond binaries of humanity and nature. That larger community includes hills and rivers, plants and animals, oceans and deserts. People enjoy the bonds of local community live with respect for other communities and know that they are small but included in a larger Earth Community. This kind of civilization is not merely environmental. Such communities are the building blocks of what open and relational (process) philosophers and theologians call an Ecological Civilization. The need is for us to cultivate communities, in rural and urban settings, that are creative, compassionate, participatory, humane to animals, and good for the earth, with no one left behind. The world’s best hope is that we learn to live with respect and care for one another and the larger community of life.
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