Wheaton, Illinois USA
I believe that both the divisions and the comunions between Muslim cultures and Western cultures are rooted in the heart of individuals of each and both and all cultures. If one’s heart knows an Ultimate Reality of Love, Compassion and Harmony then one has the passion to relate likewise. If one’s heart know an Ultimate Reality of Domination, Punishment, and Separation then one relates likewise.
Now individuals in both and all cultures have been spiritually, socially and politically formed in the later imagination of mind and do not know that they even have a heart that knows. Domination has been the rule. We are not kin but members of Kingdoms ruled, top down, by Kings who controll the mind.
To overcome this way each individual needs to do the inner work of knowing that they are already good and free to love. They are the Beloved NOW! This “mustard seed” practice will then form their hearts to know the ONE who gazes upon us as Beloved because the ONE is the BELOVED. We will not be the source of a consciousness of heart and mind change but if we know the SOURCE we will participate in the revolution of becoming a Kin-dom of Union and Communion for the Good of Earth!
Georgene L. Wilson, OSF, D. Min.
Wheaton, Illinois, USA, NA
Interreligious Engagement Project (IEP21)
Interreligious Insight