LENT II

Imagination of Human Transformation as ‘Wholeness’

Go back once again with your ‘mind’s eye’ to that awe-inspiring spectacle of Planet Earth suspended in space, as seen from the surface of the moon for the first time.  Seeing our human habitat from that perspective with everything ‘whole’ is nothing less than sublime.  Even more sublime is seeing the new creation of resurrected humanity rising above the horizon of mortality in all its pristine glory, transforming human brokenness and segregation into imaginal ‘Wholeness.’

Thanks to the Spirit’s imaginative creativity all the dualities that affect humanity in our present state of existence can be transformed into singleness of vision:–  heaven and earth, spirit and matter, time and eternity, male and female, good and evil, above and below, micro and macro, science and religion, life and death &c.

To see one’s self, body soul and spirit, and one’s entire life, including good and bad times, as a unified whole rather than as a random assortment of experiences; to see one’s interrelatedness with humanity as a whole; to see one’s connection and interconnection with the natural world, with all its vast profusion of life-forms as an integrated communion, rather than as subject and object; to see past, present, and future as a scroll rolled into one, and time, space and matter as a single biosphere or web of existence — these all become realizable once the imaginal Spirit takes possession of our mind and consciousness.

Transformation of everything in human experience is within our grasp once this ‘renewal of our minds’ takes hold, once the Spirit of wisdom and revelation i.e. Imagination, takes control of our lives.  For lack of this ‘renewal’ our generation is succumbing more and more to mental breakdown: depression, schizophrenia,  seniledementia, and Alzheimer’s disease.  Mental health requires wholeness of vision to fend off the approach of mental disability.

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.... (Philippians 2:5-11)  This incredible offer of being animated by the same mind that the highest and holiest heaven can afford can be ours by inheritance once we hand over control of our lives to the divine Spirit — our total being recreated, renewed, re-imagined, and given a new direction as we become part of a growing universal Wholeness.

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