A NEW VISION OF REALITY Talk given to the Bede Griffiths Sangha (by Zoom) 16th May 2021

 

Bede saw that the world is entering a new era, an era in which the evolution of human consciousness will “converge on an ‘ultimate reality’ a Supreme Being”. It will be an era in which all that which tends to fragment humanity would tend towards unity; an era in which religions would be able to relate their own experience to the experience of other religions which would be seen as complimentary; an era in which the dualistic paradigm of the cosmos being made out of individual particles or bodies from the atomic to the celestial, a paradigm which grew out of the insights of Newton and the Age of Enlightenment would be replaced by the modern understanding of the cosmos being a web of interdependent relationships, an era in which matter and consciousness are seen to be aspects of the same reality. It would be an era in which rational scientific understanding and spiritual understanding would converge as the universe and humanity return to the divine unity in which creation is restored and renewed.