Abstract
In order to grasp the geo-ontology of trans-secular formations, or the topology of peripherality, one must move from bread consciousness, with its obsession for differentiation and accumulation, to bridge consciousness, which is directed at the healing of the fracture between unnecessary oppositions. This chapter will be devoted to creating a paradigm for such a movement, bringing into the discussion diverse non-secular practices that stretch the being and bring it into greater alignment with itself. The fracture that is consciousness itself is constitutive of the secular subject: power and the political economy hypostatize the fracture, generating out of it modern individuality, frustrating the possibility of alignment. If modernity is the search for power and glory, peripherality or bridge consciousness is the crossing toward a sudden change, an abrupt loss of conditioning. It is important to emphasize that the possibility of bridge consciousness is not linked to any particular set of acts, beliefs, or exercises, nor is it linked to any specific affiliation or ascesis.
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Taylor, op.cit., 430–431.
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Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of All Things: On Method, trans., Luca D’lsanto (New York: Zone Books, 2009), 31.
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See Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York: Hampton Press, 2002).
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R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience (New York: Ballantine Books, 1967), 143.
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Gospel of Matthew 5:3–12, The Bible.
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NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries, Copyright 1998 by The Lockman Foundation, lockman.org
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See Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Ronald Gregor Smith (New York: Charles Scribner’s sons, 1958).
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Much of human conflicts are at and about borders, between individuals, lands, peoples, countries, yet at the same time borders and peripheral lands contain redemptive possibilities.
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Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3 (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 1988), f201.
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Romans 5:1, The Bible, King James Version.
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John 14:27, The Bible.
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Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh, The Teachings of a Sufi Master (Simorgh Sufi Society, 1971), 21.
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Ibid., 23.
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Ibid., 74.
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Ibid., 79.
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Ibid., 102.
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Ibid., 115.
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Ibid., 152.
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Ibid., 154.
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Taylor, op.cit., 714.
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Ibid.
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Personal Communication.
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Rahula Walpola, What the Buddha Taught (Oxford: OneWorld Publications, 1959).
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See G. L. N. Dhargyey, A Commentary on the Kalacakra Tantra, trans. Allan Wallace (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1982).
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Sloth is the result of dragging the previous moment into the succeeding moment; that is, it is the trace of the past in the present resulting in psycho-somatic laziness.
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G. L. N. Dhargyey, op. cit., 67.
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Taylor, op. cit., 718.
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See Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (New York: Holt Paperbacks, 1992).
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Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).
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Taylor, op. cit., 716.
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Ivan Illich and David Cayley, The Rivers North of The Future, 53.
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Taylor, op.cit., 722. Text rearranged.
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Ibid., 155.
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Roy, K. (2017). Metanoic Practice. In: Limits of the Secular. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48698-7_7
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