The Next Stage of Human Consciousness

Love Matters are wisdom words from Fr. Thomas Keating spoken during the filming of the new series God is Love: The Heart of All Creation. Some are included in the series; others are from footage published here for the first time. A new word will be posted every Monday throughout the year. May they serve to inspire hope and lift your heart.

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God is – in my understanding—and more and more so – trying to move the human race to the next stage of the human consciousness which is a capacity to respond to intuitive insights, rather than rely as heavily as we do now on the rational, technological and dominating kind of world view that thinks of human nature as the boss or in-charge of the rest of the universe, at least of this planet, and loses the insight into the equality of all creatures, especially humans among themselves.

 

La Siguiente Etapa de la Conciencia Humana

Según lo entiendo, Dios está tratando de impulsar cada vez más a la especie humana a la siguiente etapa de la conciencia humana, que es la capacidad de responder a lo que comprendemos intuitivamente, en lugar de apoyarnos tanto como lo hacemos ahora en una visión predominantemente tecnológica y racional del mundo, que considera que la humanidad está a cargo, como si fuera un jefe, del resto del universo, o por lo menos de este planeta, perdiendo de vista la igualdad de todas las criaturas, especialmente de los seres humanos entre sí.