Tag: Salvation
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The Wound of Time – 2: Memory and the False Redemption of the Past
We often turn to memory in search of redemption. We revisit the past — through recollection, analysis, even therapy — hoping to find answers, healing, clarity. We try to make sense of what happened, to piece together a self from what we remember, or to change how the past affects us now. Memory, in this…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being– 5: Toward Fulfillment — Christianity and the End of Dualism
The Return to What Has Always Been True Christianity stands today at a threshold — not of decline, but of fulfillment. After centuries of tension between its deepest intuitions and its inherited metaphysics, the time has come to see what has been gesturing from the beginning: that the truths it proclaims are not mere hopes…
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Christianity and the Structure of Being– Introduction to the Series
From Dualism to Destiny For centuries, Christianity has offered the Western world its deepest intuitions about the eternal: that life does not end in death, that the person is sacred, that love is stronger than the grave, and that a kingdom without end is not only possible—but promised. And yet, these luminous insights have long…
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The Final Non-Duality 3 – Christian Mysticism: Union, Darkness, and the Eternal God
From Ascent to Appearing: Rereading the Path of the Soul The mystical tradition in Christianity stands as one of the most powerful witnesses to the limits of conceptual thought and the longing of the soul for something that cannot be captured by language. From Dionysius the Areopagite to John of the Cross and Meister Eckhart,…
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Post 29 – The Great Myth of Becoming: The Central Illusion of Western Thought
While philosophy emerged from the desire to move beyond myth and provide more rational, logical explanations of reality, it is almost ironic that it inadvertently gave birth to what may be the greatest myth ever conceived: the belief in becoming—the notion that things come into existence and then fade away. Since the dawn of philosophy…
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Post 21 – The Joy of Eternity: Death, Overcoming, and the Infinite Appearing of Destiny
Continuing from the previous post, we now explore the meaning of death and its connection to the infinite appearing of all that is (destiny). Beyond the Illusion of Becoming Humanity remains trapped in the illusion of becoming: the belief that things come into existence from nothing and vanish into nothing. This illusion generates fear, suffering,…
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