Chapter 48: Knocking on the Door of Mercy

The oldest Larch tree in Europe. A Larch tree with angel wings.

​Rembrandt’s painting, The Return of the Prodigal Son, is an artistic representation of homecoming, forgiveness, and mercy. The Father in the painting welcomes the son with a loving father/mother acceptance. Spiritual journey can take us to a place of homecoming and mercy. As we increasingly become like the father/mother in Rembrandt’s painting, we can receive the Other, bestowing recognition and acceptance on those who home in to our families and other relational circles.
 
But home coming can be understood as more than repairing our family relations. We can grow to embrace home coming on a planetary scale. The Journey of the Universe film presents a New Story about planetary evolution, providing us with a coherent cosmology story. Thomas Berry wrote about how we need a new story that can transform Earth-human relationships. Now Brian Swimme is developing important themes in his series on the Noosphere that supports our process of awaking to cosmic memory that we pass on to future generations through heredity.
 
I have included links to the Rembrandt’s painting, the Journey of the Universe film, as well as an article about the film project. These are resources that can support your own homing in process. As we continue to learn and grow, we participate in the dissemination of knowledge into the future. Like the father in Rembrandt’s painting, we can choose to pass on loving kindness.

Share the joys of homecoming, as we open to what Brian Swimme explains as Convergence in his new Noosphere series that you can watch by clicking on the link:

And learn about how The Universe is Thinking and the understanding of soul and the hyper-body that explains our cosmic memory:

Journey of the Universe film:

Information about The Return of the Prodigal son by Rembrandt:

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Article about Journey of the Universe: