{"id":19768,"date":"2021-01-29T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19768"},"modified":"2021-01-29T09:37:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T14:37:16","slug":"the-story-of-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19768","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What if Christ is another name for\neverything\u2014in its fullness?<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V4bB7BUxBbY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Once we know that the entire physical world\naround us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place\nfor God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who\nlook deeply. I call that kind of deep and calm seeing \u201ccontemplation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A cosmic notion of the Christ competes with\nand excludes no one, but includes everyone and everything (Acts 10:15, 34) and\nallows Jesus Christ to finally be a God figure worthy of the entire universe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Franciscan tradition, John Duns Scotus\n(1266\u20131308) developed the doctrine of&nbsp;<em>the\nunivocity of being. <\/em>He believed we could speak \u201cwith one voice\u201d (<em>univocity<\/em>) of the being of\nwaters, plants, animals, humans, angels, and God. God is one (Deuteronomy 6:4),\nand thus reality is one too (Ephesians 4:3\u20135).<em> <\/em>We are all part of <em>The<\/em> Story of Being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Author, lawyer, and activist Sherri Mitchell\nshares a similar and even more ancient perspective held by Native peoples. They\ndo not use the word Christ, but within <em>The\n<\/em>Story, the universal patterns hold. She writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all originate from the same divine source.\n. . . Sadly, there will also be times when we will lose sight of this basic\nfact. During those times, we will become lost in the unfolding stories of our\nown individualized realities. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albert Einstein once talked about the illusion\nthat is created by [the] belief in separation. He described it as a prison that\nrestricts our awareness of connection to the whole:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A human being\nis a part of the whole, called by us \u201cUniverse,\u201d a part limited in time and\nspace. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated\nfrom the rest\u2014a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is\na kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to\naffection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves\nfrom this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living\ncreatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. [2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an idea that still seems fantastic to\nmany people around the world. But it is a belief that has been held by\nIndigenous peoples since the beginning of time. Our songs, stories, and\nmythologies all speak of our interrelatedness. From birth, we are taught to be\naware of the expanded kinship networks that surround us, which include other\nhuman beings along with the beings of the land, water, and air, and the plants,\ntrees, and all remaining unseen beings that exist within our universe. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our challenge is to remember all of who we\nare. [3]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must\nrediscover, reclaim, and recapitulate The Story in as many ways and as often as\nwe can. Remaining trapped in the smaller domes of meaning separates us from the\ntrinitarian flow of divine love and connection that is our birthright. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if Christ is another name for everything\u2014in its fullness? Once we know that the entire physical world around us, all of creation, is both the hiding place and the revelation place for God, this world becomes home, safe, enchanted, offering grace to any who look deeply. I call that kind of deep and calm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19769,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19768\/revisions\/19769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}