Not exact matches
Teilhard relates this movement towards the planetary
unity of civilizations with what he describes
as the increasing convergence of men in a
consciousness which is super-individual and with the passing years more and more super-national; and he has some specifically Christian things to say about that movement and its meaning.
In general, any God (
as creative will) must confront within the total
unity of his
consciousness a twofold Given, consisting of Form (logic, mathematics, Platonic ideas) and Matter (brute fact content, a «receptacle»).
They teach us that there can be no such thing
as community without
unity of
consciousness, collective action free of individual greed, humility and respect for the other and
as much concern for the other person's welfare
as for our own.
Among the Indians and Greeks alike, there were attempts to transcend
consciousness or to destroy it so
as to recover a primeval condition of
unity with the divine.
This
consciousness makes it possible for us to understand the
unity of reason and reality
as the reconciliation between nature and history.3
Daly described Whitehead's thought
as a
unity of technical and ontological reason, intended to overcome the dualism of intellectuality and shallow objective
consciousness.
Just
as on the side of matter there is quantitative differentiation, approaching precise distinction, so on the side of
consciousness there is qualitative differentiation approaching intensive
unity.
Thus (provided always that we accept the organic nature of the social phenomenon) we see being woven around us, beyond any
unity hitherto acknowledged or even foreseen by biology, the network and
consciousness of a Noosphere (It should be noted here that by its nature
as a centrated, «reflective» collectivity, the Noosphere, while occupying the same spatial dimensions
as the Biosphere, differs from it profoundly in its structure and quality of vital completion.
In his address to the conference, Henry Smith Leiper said, «And because of what we have seen of the dependence of the world mission on the Church, we who have had active service in the mission field know that
as truly
as a world mission without an urge to
unity is unthinkable, a Christian Church without a
consciousness of world mission ought to be also unthinkable».30 He then added, «am ecumenical movement without a sense of world mission to spread that community is a complete anomaly.
In fact, the individual's
consciousness of salvation occurs only in those moments where there is a sense of belonging to a larger body comprised of others and the entire universe
as they are collectively being brought into
unity by God.
But it is misguided from the start when Whitehead, because of a hypothetical and procedural assumption, reduces to the concept of multiplicity that which manifests itself, both in immediate relationships and in self -
consciousness,
as a primordial
unity.
It is precisely those who most deeply refuse our world and the forward movement of history and
consciousness who are now driven to a primordial way, a way that masks the profane reality of time and death by apprehending it
as being at one with a primordial
unity.
The only explanation the wit of man appears to have devised is Whitehead's notion of causality
as identical with memory plus the essentially structural character of the
unity of
consciousness.
Inasmuch, however,
as, within the
unity of a more general
consciousness or phenomenon of
consciousness, there still maybe a multiplicity distinguished, the continuity of a more general
consciousness does not exclude the discontinuity of particular phenomena.
«In general terms: wherever a psycho - physical total wave is continuous with itself above the threshold, there we find the
unity or identity of a
consciousness, inasmuch
as the connection of the psychical phenomena which correspond to the parts of the wave also appears in
consciousness.
For Brightman when the mind,
as a
unity of
consciousness acts, the whole mind acts:
In this elevated state of
unity consciousness, the love that is at the root of all things (to clarify, this is pure conjecture
as my perception of love being at the root of all things may be way different than yours, and truths are many) just spontaneously and effortlessly pours out.
Children of the Earth, primarily an organization of, by and for children, is recognized
as a world leader in education for ethical
consciousness and interfaith
unity.
Although it is true that the constitution of the United Nations represented itself
as an effort of intergovernmental cooperation and plural
unity of human diversity, creating a planetary
consciousness of belonging to a community with a common destiny, the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) forces us to create new symbiosis between ecological sustainability and human rights.