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Compassion

Compassion. THE Value of the 21 st Century WHY?. Evolution and our Human Story. Phaethon – A Story for our Mythic Moment Appendix The Five Moments of Awareness Gard Jameson PhD. Joseph Campbell’s four essential aspects of Myth. R = Religious S = Social C = Cosmological

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Compassion

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  1. Compassion THE Value of the 21st Century WHY?

  2. Evolutionand our Human Story

  3. Phaethon – A Story for our Mythic MomentAppendixThe Five Moments of AwarenessGard Jameson PhD

  4. Joseph Campbell’s four essential aspects of Myth • R = Religious • S = Social • C = Cosmological • P = Psychological

  5. 1. The Paleolithic StageTribalism • R = Numinous awe before the great mystery – the “sacred” • S = Primarily tribal • C = Dominion of myth giving sense of whence, why, and whither we came and are going • P = Ritual integrating the individual with the larger whole • Universe (larger circle) regarded as sacred. Little or no sense of individuality; no differentiation between self and the other, as represented by dotted circle within the larger circle or whole.

  6. 2. The Axial Age - The Classical World View • R = Development of major world religions • S = Emergence of empire out of tribes • C = Ptolemic system of earth center of universe • P = Emergence of individual ego, beginning of appreciation of individuality • Universe still sacred, gods and goddesses, but emergence “still frail” of the individual…. Philosophers and spiritual leaders begin “to speak their mind…from poetic bards to prophetic visionaries.”

  7. 3. The Medieval World View • R = Religion dominant • S = An ecclesial society with its “faith” [integrated with political power] • C = Dante’s version of Ptolemy with earth as center of the 3 layered universe - heaven, earth, and hell • P = Emergence of religious identity [and its duality], exploring heaven and hell, spirit and matter, good and evil • The universe, crosshatched, seen as a place of heaven and hell, angels and demons, saints and sinners, good and evil, preserved through the Church, the Synagogue, Temple, and Mosque. ”

  8. 3. The Modern World View • R = Deism and Agnosticism – distancing of God • S = Empirical sensibilities, move toward democracy and universal education • C = Newtonian system, discoveries of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo – universe less sacred • P = Increasing scientific inquiry and skeptical attitude.” • Universe cold and empty devoid of meaning – all meaning, both good and evil, resides in a growing sense of individuality, its rights rise above the collective…

  9. 4. The Post Modern World View • R = Distrust in religious institutions / fundamentalism • S = Emergence of the Other – ethnic, gender, racial, religious • C = the Quantum Universe with deep uncertainty • P = Deep sense of alienation and confusion • Individual de-centered, the sacred stripped from reality, individual still the source of meaning, facts replaced by individual interpretations, collective unconscious, but growing sense of the spiritual in a material world and soul growth represent abiding hope.

  10. 5. The Post Post Modern World View – The Hope and Possibility of a Future, The Discovery of Meaning and Value • R = Mutual respect and support of all religious perspectives based on shared values • S = Recognition of the interdependence of the biosphere – human and non-human • C = Awareness of a “living,” lawful universe that can be trusted at all levels • P = Deep sense of contemplative interbeing, emergence of cosmic consciousness and deepening spiritual perception • Individual re-centered and reconnected in sphere of reality – re-enchanted with the Sacred – Facts, meanings, and values are discovered to be integrated within human consciousness– growing trust in the cosmos – the contemplative attitude is essential to meaningful existence.

  11. THE Values of the “Filosophs” A Future based on values?

  12. LOVE  • epithymia – libido, lustful, sexual / (invariance) • eros – mystical (self) • philia – brotherly / sisterly • agape – self-transcendent • Morality and Beyond – Paul Tillich

  13. “There is, for example, the compassion element of philia and eros in agape, and there is the agape quality in genuine compassion (a fact important for dialogue among the different religious traditions). It is this agape element that prevents participation in the other one from becoming mere identification with him, as compassion prevents agape from becoming a detached act of mere obedience to the "law of love." Morality and Beyond – Paul Tillich

  14. Only with love and compassion, forgiveness, reconciliation, and restoration can there be true peace and healing in our world – our survival depends on it. cob “Two sides of the same motivational coin”…

  15. Compassion - a noun and a verb -

  16. Compassion is the empathic awareness of suffering, the desire to relieve the suffering, and actually doing something about it. Composed from Oxford Handbook of Compassion Science 2017 Editors: Seppala, Simon-Thomas, Brown, Worline, Cameron and James R. Doty MD

  17. Compassion A Matter of Choice? If “yes” to love and compassion, then what next?

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