Yes Dorothy the Egregore Does Have Agency
She can see it in the fields and in her little dog Toto too
The @fullydavid @Freakoutery convo on @WisdomRebel ends with a point I've been making that with the recession of modernity we are now open to ancient ways of thinking. Agency scales up and down.
A big part of my project is to help modernity-haunted people understand ancient concepts and see their plausibility in their own world. Isn't this the main job for a preacher? "Spirit" although still in our language is mostly unavailable to people.
One of the most common and easy to see "egregore" is school spirit. We see it in nationalities. These are "principalities" or even "the prince of Persia". @aqualityexiste1 asked about "principalities and powers" Here they are.
They govern us. The Spirit of Christ conquers not with swords but with the "renewal of your mind". No you can't put "spirit" under a microscope or see it through a telescope, you need eyes to see. It's all around us. It's on Twitter, it's in the Facebook feed of your mom.
The @WisdomRebel piece wonders about agency. Obviously they have tremendous agency. We just struggle the way the dog and the corn struggle to understand the Iowa farmer.
Footnotes: Rebel wisdom piece I took the clip from
The @vervaeke_john @JeanPhi76459673 conversation I took the other clip from.
And suddenly Jonathan Pageau doesn't seem so crazy 🤣 ... It's been fascinating these last few years to see the big brains suddenly have these epiphanies that are simply ancient ideas packaged in modern scientific gobbledygook speach... We could probably make better progress if the materialist weren't so allergic to religious vocabulary...
Hi Paul, thanks for talking about this. Suddenly I feel as though there is something that I'm almost seeing, I'm glimpsing it out of the corner of my eye but when I try to look at it nothing is there. Not literally, of course. But that is how I feel thinking about an egregore. On the one hand the idea... I pray the rosary each day--not the full rosary, but baby steps! Am I contributing to bringing something forth? And... well, what exactly DO we mean by the 'body of christ'? Perhaps that isn't quite as metaphorical as many think.