{"id":2665,"date":"2017-10-26T20:16:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T04:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2017-10-26T20:16:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T04:16:23","slug":"accelerating-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2665","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

The spring became a trickle, then a stream, then a rivulet. That then became a creek, then a small non-navigable river; then a big ol’ river (navigable), and a bigger river. Then the water flowed into a delta and from thence to the sea. Then it rolled back to us as a tsunami (tidal wave)! In my lifetime it went from the metaphoric creek onwards. I might indulge myself in feeling grateful that I got off the boat at the delta, which means that I am recoiling and defending myself from information overload!<\/p>\n

But this is my life and I\u2019m choosing to unwind, not keep up. I turn off the news and just glance at the news. (It\u2019s hard to turn away, but I try… a little.) I sing verses from \u201cMy Get-up-and-go Has Got-up-and-went<\/a>.\u201d I\u2019m aware I\u2019m trying to tie things up as I unwind. It\u2019s a worthy challenge.<\/p>\n

Indeed, I\u2019ve realized that we want to inform people\u2014through an easeful opening of imagination through humor\u2014that events are happening much faster than they seemed to when I was young, and even at that time things were happening much faster than forty years before. There are so many factors supporting this, modernization and global connectedness being only two.<\/p>\n

Cosmologically, more people are opening to a creative meta-force, things happening beyond the sum of things speeding up, and experiencing all this as transcendental. This is odd because we\u2019ve had two hundred years of de-mystification, following two hundred years of recognizing that many mysterious forces are impersonal \u201claws of nature.\u201d But this doesn\u2019t necessarly prove that God isn\u2019t active, but only that he is not active is so clumsy and gross a way.<\/p>\n

On my desk is a book by Ilia Delio, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, speaking of the meaning of the writings of Teilhard de Chardin\u2014an effort to reconcile theology and science. It supports my growing conviction that God is actively evolving, and in turn, that evolution for humans is accelerating geometrically, not arithmetically. This means that it\u2019s very very much speeding up, not just one \u2018very\u2019. <\/p>\n

It occurred to me that more will be happening in the next decade than happened in the last three or four decades. This is already happening with cellphone technology. What if metaphysically acceleration is also mind-expansion? Just supposing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The spring became a trickle, then a stream, then a rivulet. That then became a creek, then a small non-navigable river; then a big ol’ river (navigable), and a bigger river. Then the water flowed into a delta and from thence to the sea. Then it rolled back to us as a tsunami (tidal wave)! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-history","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-whassup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2666,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2665\/revisions\/2666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}