The 
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Paradigm

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the person paradigm

 

The Person paradigm is a different way of knowing.

It is ignoring the easy path of dualistic awareness, i.e.seeing reality in either of 2 unreconciled boxes person (spirit/mind) and non-person (matter/energy), and choosing instead a limited central 'person only' knowing that paradoxically opens into a greater awareness.

'Person knowing' was the 'tree of life' of the Garden of Eden.

Seeing reality as existing entirely within Personhood is not illogical from a Christian perspective, as Christianity asserts that all that is, is sourced in God who is personal, and is returning to Him.  Personhood is the stuff of eternity.

God encompasses all that is from eternity as living archetypal idea within the holy flow of the Trinity.  At its source, the Universe, or created reality, is an ideas flow between God whose Spirit broods over, and whose Word speaks out Creation into the hearing Wisdom within Otherness.

Christianity also attributes death (non-personhood) to separation from God.  A separation, which like all dualism was reconciled by God in the death of Christ.
(See William Law on Matter - postulating matter as sourced in the fall )
(see also George Berkeley who postulated a philosophy of Idealism, denying any unperceived material reality, which whilst it doesnt make a lot of sense to a dualistic mindset, sits quite happily in the context of a reconciled person reality)

To understand the universe meaningfully we need to have our roots in the living Wisdom who hears well. Within this pure central core of personhood, it possible to experience reality as a unity.

Outside this central core however, and we are one with other perceptions who hear a plethora of confused words in a progressively corrupting grey dualism of fading brightness.  A place where pure personal and infinite knowing is corrupted in deficient hearings, and corrupted speech. Fading out into the darkness of depersonalisation and death. The darkness of an impersonal, materialistic, and mechanistic universe.

See The Two Knowings

 

 

God as Good! 

 
  Who is your God?

The character of Yahweh vs the character of Jesus

Goodness Love and Virtue (A theological appraisal of the 'Old Testament God')

The 'Wrath of God' as Satan

The Prodigal Son

The Woman 'caught in adultery'

The Jericho Thought Experiment - WWJD?

William Law

Goodness Love and Virtue (rtf version for printing)

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