Incredible Shrinking Man

This post is inspired by one of my very favorite songs from one of my very favorite bands. In it they assert that while we think we are becoming more powerful and in control, humanity is actually shrinking in all the ways that are actually important.

Daniel Amos: The Incredible Shrinking Man

Listening to this song again got me thinking about perhaps a less obvious way humanity is shrinking. I think that pertains to the realm of our spirituality and that this aspect is more detrimental to us than all the other ways we are shrinking.

You see, I believe the ancients had one thing right; they had a 3D view of the cosmos… there were the everyday flat relations with humans (2D universe) and then that went 3D when relating to the divine powers, be that Jehovah God or whatever gods men served.

I believe Jehovah God offers us a 4D universe since the time he injected himself into his own creation. This is not just a one and done type thing. He continues to offer himself as bread for the life of the world every day at these cosmic portals called “the Mass” or “The Divine Liturgy”.

There was a time when much of the world believed in this divine 4D interaction, but it passed.

In the 1500s, much of the world began to embrace the new religion of science and falsely assumed it precluded the 4th dimension.

Result: Incredible shrinking man from 4D down to 3D.

Then with the descent into atheism in the last few centuries, succored by the so called thinkers of the age, many have shrunken into a blind 2D universe.

Result: Incredible shrinking man from 3D down to 2D.

Now the narrative is limited to what person or group is oppressing what other person or group and the only thing that matters is a show of power to liberate the oppressed group.

This is incredibly small thinking. It is called a one story universe, or perhaps a completely flat 2D universe in which relationships ONLY flow horizontally.

I utterly reject such notions as it simply doesn’t square with my experience or the experience of the majority of humans down through the ages. There has always been a vertical element for the majority. The mob has always had one thing right at least, there is a divine Other and we are not that divine Other. A 3D universe.

But I would again insist that isn’t enough. It isn’t enough to acknowledge a divine other.

I believe the Divine Other took on the flesh of His own creatures. He entered into our pain. He let us kill Him. He used that as a convenient opportunity to trample down death by death, He started undoing death at that precise moment and death has been dying a little each day ever since. In fact, looking around, I’d say death is in its death throes, thrashing about and taking as many souls as it can, because it knows its time is short. This version of the world won’t be here long.

Death and evil is in its death throes

And having conquered death and sealed its eventual doom, the incarnate life giving God now offers Himself as food and drink… every day… all over the world. “Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood, you have no life in you… for my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink”.

The 4th dimension, you see, is time. Kyros and Kronos. Just like the Greeks have four words for love (see the add video https://youtu.be/IpwXQ3FdBEo ) thus showing the silly weakness of our English language, they also had multiple words for Time. Kronos is the sequential marking of time that we think of most… calendars and clocks help us mark it now instead of the sun, moon, stars and planets but it is still the same concept… except we no longer have to look up. Hmmmm….

Kairos on the other hand is most often explained as “the opportune moment” or “living in the now” or “eternal moment”.

When God takes flesh, it is going to mess with time, am I right? I mean think about it. The divine taking on flesh is a huge thing. The hugest thing actually.

God is now both beyond time dwelling in the eternal now (kairos) and all at once in time, the daily sequence of events (Kronos).

Again, it smacks of the mysteries of quantum physics.

Anyway, I cannot bear living in a 2D universe. The narratives that erupt from such thinking are monstrous, in a flat comic book kind of way.

3D is a step in the right direction but still not enough. I cannot live with there just being a God and me not being God. That doesn’t satisfy the longings of my heart.

4D says, there is a God and he offers himself to me every day as food and drink. More than just a 3D relationship, this is intimacy. And I must have it.

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