Developing Global Consciousness

On the Affiliate website <http://maryknollaffiliates.org> click on “Developing Global Consciousness” in the NEWS dropdown menu. Over 25 short readings on Awakening Consciousness are available. These readings are precises provided by Sr Helene O'Sullivan MM of modern day, mostly Orbis, authors, who write boldly in ways that will awaken us to new understandings of life in the Spirit. Below are excerpts from two precises.

 “My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.”
 The Gospel encounters with the risen Jesus may be more indicative of what was happening to the followers than of what happened to Jesus himself. Literalists in the past used the empty tomb as “proof” for the resurrection of Jesus, but those that continued to follow Jesus based their faith not on the evidence of an empty tomb but rather on the new awakening of God’s living Spirit in their midst. (Diarmuid O’Murchu – Reflections on a Life of Spiritual Evolution）

 Anselm of Canterbury clearly argued that the core of Christian faith is based on the fall of Adam and Eve, for, if Adam had not sinned, then Christ would not have come. Pope Pius XII affirmed the doctrine of original sin and the concept of inherited guilt due to a single couple in his 1950 encyclical, Humani Generis. Science is telling us something very different about matter and personhood, however, something that ultimately makes a difference as to how we conceive of the human person and thus how we conceive of religion. (The Not-Yet God:
Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole (Ilia Delio, OSF)