Series: Prodigal
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An Experiential Framework for Humanity We find ourselves, throughout our journeys in life, as both children and parents; prodigal sons and tearful fathers. Resurrexit Spiritus, or “The Risen Spirit,” is a philosophical framework that maps the entire arc of the Christian life, which is to say the spiritually human, in a phenomenology. It is a…
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Effects of Rejections and Acceptances in KRATOS Kratos is the first domain where we grapple with rejections and acceptances, often in pursuit of self-definition. This is the stage where the prodigal son rejects his father’s authority, the rules of family, and the expectations of community, choosing instead to follow his own path with his own…
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Product and Craft from Self and Other The second domain of Resurrexit Spiritus is Telos. This is where balance is achieved in terms of goals, labour and habits through the reconciliation of product and craft. This is where we spend most of our time experientially as humans. It is the more selfish paradigm in the…
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Altruism and Egoism in Extremes and Moderations The third domain of Resurrexit Spiritus is Eros, where love is a divinely transformative force that can change everything overnight. It is also worthwhile to note here that while the next domain of Logos is the final one, it is an encapsulation of the previous three making Eros…
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Mastery and True Power The final domain of Resurrexit Spiritus is Logos, where all things converge to bring about self-mastery and the only real power deemed worthy of mortal man’s purpose in empowering others. This stage is not directly alluded to in terms of the prodigal son’s development, however it is plain in the culmination…
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Our Stories of Acceptance, Rejection, Craft, Product, Egoism, Altruism, Mastery, and Power Let us now step back from the individual domains of Resurrexit Spiritus and see how they all weave together into a single and coherent framework. Of course, this is merely a “best” theoretical construct, imperfectly reflecting our human journey toward spirit, which also…
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Mirror of the Light, Lead Me Out of the Darkness Dear beloved of God, let me return to my own personal story that brought me to this place and out of that. It was a combination of revelations, single moment of sudden awareness, but also a slow unravelling of certainties and their premises. In this…