tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760854303694440563.post5572715617746137533..comments2023-05-04T18:54:18.819+03:00Comments on OneSketchist: Divine entropy, among other things.Victorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11866326314279698355noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1760854303694440563.post-29528805195747425092013-01-22T08:02:34.746+02:002013-01-22T08:02:34.746+02:00In the stories and rituals of the indigenous peopl...In the stories and rituals of the indigenous peoples of Australia, Africa, and North and South America, there are times when participants experience a liminal state that can be understood as a return to the creative boundaries between chaos and order. Alongside the religious traditions that emphasize the defeat of chaos, there are those that challenge dualistic polarities and encourage an acceptance of chaos or elements associated with it, such as negativity, unknowing, and darkness. In ancient China, early Daoist texts (as opposed to the later Daoism) support mystical union with hun-tun (chaos) and identify hun-tun with the ultimate principle of Dao. Alongside the mainstream Vedic traditions of India there are forms of mysticism, both Upanishadic and Buddhist, that encourage union with "emptiness." Christian theology includes the tradition of apophatic theology, which finds expression in the works of Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335.395 C.E.) and Pseudo-Dionysius (c. fifth century C.E.), in the English medieval text The Cloud of Unknowing, in the John of the Cross's (1542591) symbol of the Dark Night, and in the twentieth century in Karl Rahner's (1904984) theology of God as Incomprehensible Mystery.<br /><br />In Jewish thought, a theology that can embrace negativity finds expression in various streams of thought, including those concerning God's Shekinah and sixteenth-century mystic Isaac Luria's concept of the divine withdrawal that makes space for creation (the zimsum). In philosophy since the Holocaust, there has been an attempt to embrace the chaotic strangeness and alterity of reality, particularly in the postmodern rejection of all "totalizing" attempts at comprehension and order and in philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's (1906995) insistence on the radical and irreducible otherness of one's neighbor.Filiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01278337658115009636noreply@blogger.com