[Dialogue] teetering on the cultic edge

[W. J.]

Geez, Carlos, what can I say? Except that the cultic edge continually moves on. And for a while we teetered on it.
 
It's clear that in 1957 the cultic/cutting edge was the Christian Faith-and-Life Community; in 1967 it was the Order:Ecumenical living in Fifth City and teaching RS-1/CS-1 across the globe; in 1977 it was the ICA doing human development projects LENS, and town meetings across the globe and living beyond the death of JWM; in 1987 it was the ICAI, the diaspora, and the radical secularizing / indigenizing / transparenizing of the Word about life.
 
By 1997 the cultic edge had moved on to envision the 21st century in a very new and global context that embraced an ecosystemic lens and struggled with a new set of global economic, political, and cultural contradictions. I'm not sure we're fully up to speed on how to teeter on this cultic edge.
 
If the twentieth century revolutions were indeed scientific, urban, and secular, maybe the current revolution in global human consciousness is more tribal, global-village focused, and eco-centric. 
 
In that postmodern context what has re-emerged with power is the Cultus or the Cultic. Not just in reductionistic, otherworldly, or apocalyptic Cults seeking to escape this world in some kind of utopian communities. 
 
More importantly, it has to do with a recovery of the transformative power of ritual to bind us together in a common experience mediated by mass media and inclusive of altered states of consciousness evoked by music and images.
 
Or something like that.
 
We haven't exactly figured out what a global Cultus will look like for a global village.
 
More later, possibly, or maybe not. 'Cause early tomorrow morning I'm off to Lake Junaluska for another visit.
 
Marshall
 

--- On Mon, 6/2/08, Carlos R. Zervigon <carlos at zervigon.com> wrote:

From: Carlos R. Zervigon <carlos at zervigon.com>
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Brooke Tippett wins the Golden Apple Award
To: "'Colleague Dialogue'" <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Monday, June 2, 2008, 6:50 PM








Mike and Judith
 
Having been a school teacher, I appreciate the significance of what Brooke has done. I remember my theory of gradual transition from bright eyed and hopeful to cynical and go through the motions. It is probably significant that she could benefit from our history and yet recognize the cultic edge on which we teetered (Wayne alias Marshall help me here). I rejoice in this great event.
 

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