A Mature Spiritual Perspective

[Edward Schreiber]

Dear Colleagues,
I received this missive from Andrew Cohen and it struck me
how similar this statement is to Dr. Moreno's understanding of
the Cultural Atom.  The Cultural Atom looks like the Social Atom
and it is very different.  At the center, that solid dot, is the body.
Around that, the next ring out is the psyche, or soul.  The ring out
from that is the Social Atom, all our relations.  The ring out from that
is the Culture, thus the cultural atom.  That outer ring, the  
culture, impacts
the social atom, which impacts the psyche, which impacts the most solid
of ourselves, the body.

Likewise, awakening, spiritually speaking, to the presence of the  
authentic
self, our original nature, the Godhead, is within the body and  
extends to the
psyche and extends outward to the social atom of our lives, and  
outward to the
culture.

I'm struck with brilliant Moreno was, and is, writing in WSS and  
other documents
of this awakening, in the body, in the psyche, in our social atom,  
within the culture.

Spring arising!

Ed
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> A Mature Spiritual Perspective
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> I'm convinced that a truly spiritual or enlightened perspective,  
> especially as one matures, must include the whole world, the whole  
> Kosmos, in every dimension. As my own perspective and interest and  
> understanding started to expand and grow over the years, it  
> naturally began to embrace a bigger and bigger picture. And I  
> started to understand something very important: that there is a  
> very clear and direct connection between the interior and the  
> exterior, between the experience of consciousness or subjectivity  
> and the world we are creating together. What is that connection? It  
> is the relationship between the evolution of consciousness and the  
> evolution of culture.
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> Cultures are merely shared values—the moral convictions, beliefs,  
> and ideals that shape the way that we see the world. And we all  
> know that different cultures share different kinds of values.  
> People who share the same values see the world from the same  
> perspective, and the kind of societies they create reflect those  
> values. So we find that there is a very clear connection between  
> the evolution ofconsciousness, the evolution of our interiors, and  
> the evolution of culture itself. As consciousness evolves in and  
> through individuals, their values also begin to develop. When  
> people have spiritual experiences, for example, their values can  
> change. A very selfish person can become less selfish, and begin to  
> care more about other people and the world. In examples like these,  
> we can see the connection between the evolution of consciousness  
> and the evolution of culture, between spiritual experience and  
> practice and creating real change in the world we share. When we  
> begin to awaken to this connection in our own lives, our  
> understanding of spirituality expands dramatically, embracing more  
> and more dimensions of life, of the world, and of the entire Kosmos.
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