Grace/graciousness IS the lesson of Life and Living. It’s what Aquinas discovered when he said: “All that I have written is but straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.” It’s the ulfillment of the law. It’s the ever loving joyous moment, the total and actual expression of the Hegelian Dialectic i.e. The Cosmic Code, what we all knew as babes and what we can have again, if we incorporate the adult abstract existence we moderns have come to generally call our consciousness, into this larger unitary experiential mindset.

And any arbitrary, pre-conceived supernatural hoops to jump through in order to attain this state are optional or to be thought of as guideposts not achievements. Do not grasp, simply touch and untouch, look and unlook, reach and withdraw…continually.

Habit and hence unconsciousness.

Lack of cultural criticism.

Lack of interest in/practice of considering essences and operative factors, and in integrating opposites, in other words Wisdom, whose very mental process involves doing exactly that.

Lack of any desire to find the greater truth which makes orthodox thinking easy to adopt. Pursuing the greater truth requires open mindedness and sensitivity to the truths in opposites.

Gracious as in caring and yet,

Sovereign as in powerful, effective and yet redeemed by,

Ethical as in the greatest good for the whole while,

Wise as in dynamically integrative of opposites and

Rational as in open mindedly scientific and finally,

Conscious as in continually renewing all of the above.

Had to post this simply because Kate Smith had such a terrific voice and the time to admire freedom is now. Of course patriotism like nearly every other concept can be used for good or evil purposes, but again the song is so beautifully sung. Perhaps if we remind ourselves that beauty is a harmonic of love, and the self actualization of the personal experience of grace which is love in action, then that logic will awaken and re-inforce such pursuit.

Yes, and if you try to bring full consciousness to economists and pundits of the new paradigm concept that is politically and theoretically integrative, and would free us to run the kind of fiscal deficits necessary to confront climate change and off planet production so our limits to growth could be expanded, then historically that one is ignored until crises force it or an orthodox individual with a platform cognites on it. This is because humans are excellent at describing problems, mediocre about crafting reforms and virtually incompetent with integrating the opposites that have always characterized paradigm changes. But one must soldier on.

Every increase in awareness, paradigm or mega-paradigm change, every personal improvement or temporal universe/systemic advance is primarily characterized by an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept/experience of grace.

Why is this? It’s because grace is the natural state of the cosmos that self awareness/consciousness is set up to realize. Any argument that terrible acts/occurences contradict this is merely the unwillingness/inability to realize that without their opposites whatever is considered good has no actual meaning and is actually prohibitive of learning. Again, the woof and warp of life and the universe is set up as a potential learning/evolutionary process whose logical result is cognition that grace is the integrative, unitary, actual and personally achievable state

Live each moment of life as deeply and intimately as you can, but don’t get hung up in any area of it or particular moment of it. Bless everything because blessing is a deep way of experiencing that bounces back, and an integrative flow of blessing and being blessed is a great description of grace as in loving flow.

Ever since I started studying economics seriously I always tried to think integratively about the various researchers I came across. I learned alot and quickly learned to reject outmoded ways of thinking, but rather quickly I began to notice that even the theorists I liked and agreed with had blind spots, failures or unwillingness to consider integration of viewpoints and a distinct inability to actually think on the paradigmatic/pattern/essence/operant factors level. All of these people advocated policies that aligned with what I had discovered was the precise new paradigm concept, but they didn’t have a conscious knowledge of that specific concept and they also lacked the awareness of where, when and how to best implement policies for the maximum beneficial effect.

These were brilliant and erudite people, but they lacked the wholistic and integrative mode of thought so necessary to perceive a paradigm/pattern changing concept as well as the places to make the concept best work in the temporal universe. I chalk much of this up to the overwheening mindset of reductive science that modern intellectuals are habituated to, and conversely the lack of an integrative mindset which is the actual method of wisdom thinking.

Does this mean I’m against science? Never. Science is wonderful, delicious, necessary…and resides entirely within the microbiome/digestive tract of Wisdom/Spirituality. When we integrate the mindsets of science and wisdom is when mankind will finally begin to actually express and fulfill its species designation of homo sapiens, that is, wise and discerning man.

What Mankind desperately needs is to sprint toward applying the concept and experience of grace, i.e. love in personal action/systemic policy….with post haste.

There is no necessary conflict in anything above because love being the highest spiritual value and experience, grace being its active form/expression and one of the top aspects of grace being union of everything including opposites, such thinking and acting is completely and logically aligned.

May all beings everywhere be happy and free.

This is a beautiful Sanskrit mantra that offers a blessing of compassion and kindness to all beings.