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communions

n. (plural of communion English)

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Cults blossomed into true Communions that grew at exponential rates, until another star was claimed by a Dyson swarm of the Hallowed Vasties.

The very emergence of the Ego, they maintained, was now destroying the rich fabric of communions on which the Ego itself depended.

It was a higher emergence used for altogether rude purposes, turning everything into objects of the monological gaze, and severing, alienating, repressing the rich communions that allowed its agency to function in the first place.

For the Ego, the more it could disenchant and disengage from nature and communions, the greater the knowledge and freedom of the self.

Eco camp, self-isolated agency, however important, had sealed off the rich networks of unions and communions with nature and other cultures, and thus the more reenchanted the world, the better.

And each successive theorist gives a deeper or bigger or wider meaning to existence by finding previously hidden contexts that suddenly shift the autonomy out from under our feet and point to larger communions in which we live and breathe and have our being.

In other words, special rootedness in the biosphere can indeed be reasonably claimedthere is literally a million years of rich tradition of the wise woman who feels the currents of embodiment in nature and communion, and celebrates it with healing rituals and knowing ways of connecting wisdom, a wisdom that does not worship merely the agentic sun and its glaring brightness, but finds in the depths and the organic dark the ways of being linked in relationship, that puts care above power and nurturance above self-righteousness, that reweaves the fragments with concern, and midwifes the communions and the unsung connections that sustain us each and all.

To establish its agency over the communions of the great and grinding system.

It completely ignored, almost totally forgot, its own interpersonal dimension, the dimension of dialogical and intersubjective communication, in favor of the merely monological and objectifying mode, which is also a very hyperagentic mode, in that the communions of inter subjectivity are ditched in favor of the monologues of individual power and agency.

Eco camp, on the other hand, was desperately reaching out for a larger and more variegated Life and Love, enriched with the communions of all imaginable varietyin nature and in other culturesand promoting diversity and egalitarianism with a passion.

I am now the receptacle of feelings coming from nature and into me, carrying me away in floods of sentiment and communions of sensory drenching.

For the Eco camp, self-isolated agency, however important, had sealed off the rich networks of unions and communions with nature and other cultures, and thus the more reenchanted the world, the better.

This simply represses the networks of communions that are just as important as agency in constituting the manifestation of Spirit.