the timboucher experience

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1. Timothy Obama
   Posted January 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm | Permalink

   When applied to the lens of technology as an expression of consciousness, the Rose too “as a symbol” says something for me personally about self-organizing systems, an emergence that flowers on its own and grows and knows what to do simply by the inbuilt urges and wisdom of Nature, and in so doing becomes functionally and aesthetically perfect. Apotheosis. Ecstasis. Henosis.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henosis

   Within the realm of Neoplatonic philosophy, henosis (Greek ?????? “unity, oneness”) is the goal of union with the Monad, Source, or the One.

   To get closest to the One, each individual must engage in divine work (theurgy) according to Iamblichus of Chalcis. This divine work can be defined as each individual dedicating their lives to making the created world and mankind’s relationship to it, and one another, better. Under the teachings of Iamblichus (see the Egyptian Mysteries), one goes through a series of theurgy or rituals that unites the initiate to the Monad. These rituals mimic the ordering of the chaos of the Universe into the material world or cosmos. They also mimic the actions of the demiurge as the creator of the material world.

   Each individual as a microcosm reflects the gradual ordering of the universe referred to as the macrocosm. In mimicking the demiurge (divine mind), one unites with The One or Monad. Thus the process of unification, of “The Being”, and “The One”, is called Henosis. The culmination of Henosis is deification.

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosis

   In Christianity theology, particularly in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholic theology, theosis (written also: theiosis, theopoiesis, the?sis; Greek: ??????, meaning divinization, or deification, or making divine) is the process of a believer in emulating the life example of Jesus Christ and of following the gospel of Christ in one’s daily life; the process of seeking to become more holy. According to this doctrine, the holy life of God, given in Jesus Christ to the believer through the Holy Spirit, is expressed beginning in the struggles of this life, increases in the experience of the believer through the knowledge of God, and is later consummated in the resurrection of the believer when the power of sin and death, having been fully overcome by the atonement of Jesus, will lose hold over the believer forever. [1] This conception of salvation is historically foundational for Christian understanding in both the East and the West, as it has been developed directly from the apostolic and early Christian teachings concerning the life of faith.