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A
"WE THE PEOPLE"
interview with
Paolo Soleri
and
Jerry Brown |
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Animism
A reality authored by a creator
is a reality animated by the creator's "pneuma."
Animism sacralizes that which it animates.
Under a spell of this sort, reality
is in constant peril of blasphemy. It is as if the creator
at the moment of creation injects in it a sort of paralyzing
substance, "thou shalt not." The wasp does that with the cicada
(reality) so that its angels (babies) can feed upon the living
corpse of the fodder. "Virtual" cannibalism?
Reality,
an original goodness turned sour, has to worship its maker
and more than often is at a loss at about the truthfulness
of the whole enterprise . Somewhere the intrinsic warpage
of the sequence "goodness generating badness worshipping goodness"
clamors for resolution. But resolution is inhibited by intrinsic
incoherence: Reality diminishes God (the hypothetical deity).
A self generating reality is exempt
from such dependence. It does not have the imprint that the
creator unavoidably makes upon its creation.
By abandoning animism, i.e., by unveiling
the deceptive nature of the theological simulations (the longing
for a perfection mistakenly thought to exist) the knot is
undone, the presence of the Mistero Tremendo is unveiled,
and reality is face to face with the awesome task of making
itself into the nobility of love
and grace.......at all costs.
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