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  Michael : Michael

Tribute to Thomas Berry

Michael said Jun 11, 2:22 AM:
 

The renowned evolutionary theologian Thomas Berry died in the early morning of June 1st at the distinguished age of 94. Some leading thinkers of today, uniting science and spirituality, cosmos and logos, like Ken Wilber, Brian Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow, were deeply inspired by Berry’s life and work. Berry was greatly influenced by the evolutionary cosmology of French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. A Catholic priest himself, Berry will be best remembered for helping the religious traditions to recognize the ecological crisis as a deeply spiritual issue. The following is an excerpt from his article “The Spirituality of the Earth” (1990):

“We need a spirituality that emerges out of a reality deeper than ourselves, even deeper than life, a spirituality that is as deep as the earth process itself, a spirituality born out of the solar system and even out of the heavens beyond the solar system. There in the stars is where the primordial elements take shape in both their physical and psychic aspects. There is a certain triviality in any spiritual discipline that does not experience itself as supported by the spiritual as well as the physical dynamics of the entire cosmic-earth process. A spirituality is a mode of being in which not only the divine and the human commune with each other, but we discover ourselves in the universe and the universe discovers itself in us”.  

Has this not been proclaimed in the Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads? So many centuries had passed, and religious and new age minds alike still find themselves drowned in triviality!

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  Siona : Synchronicity Coordinator

Re: Tribute to Thomas Berry

Siona said Jun 11, 7:59 AM:
 

Oh my goodness.

Thank you, Michael. I don't know how I didn't learn of his death until today. Thomas Berry was, and is, one of my great spiritual heroes.

There is a tribute to him here as well.

Thank you. I am still with sorrow, and with gratitude. He was an amazing man.
  ~KES : Communicator

Re: Tribute to Thomas Berry

~KES said Jun 11, 12:29 PM:
 

This is most beautiful - take a moment and meditate on his words.

Thomas Berry and the Earth Community

http://www.thomasberry.org/ has his slide show.
  *Ladybear~ : Human

Re: Tribute to Thomas Berry

*Ladybear~ said Jun 11, 1:26 PM:
 

Jeff also posted a long blog about Thomas Berry's passing