PLEROSIS is a Greek word meaning “fullness” or “filling up”. Kenosis is a Greek word meaning “emptiness” or “emptying”. I am caught between the two. Between gratitude and desire. Between the already and the not yet. Between Being, as the absolute non-distinction between Plerosis and Kenosis in the eternal now. (The “pregnant nothing” of Buddhism. One taste. Form is emptiness. Emptiness is form.) and Becoming, as the relative play/romance between Plerosis and Kenosis in the unfolding of time. (The Stories of Salvation. First, Evolution. The self-realization of panentheistic Spirit in the temporal unfolding of the evolution of material consciousness. Second, the Gospel. The self-emptying of God in Christ on the cross leading through death beyond death to the resurrected fullness of the Spirit in a New Creation.) The greatest stories ever told. Where do these stories meet? How do we live with them?
PLEROSIS is also about the fullness of a particular time- our time. It is about our unique moment in the universal narrative. We are racing Janus-faced toward both doom and transcendence. Exponential acceleration in both directions. Never has the world been so small or vulnerable. Never has our power, for good or evil, been so concentrated, deadly, and efficient. On one hand, the real threat of global annihilation by nuclear terror, plague, or meltdown. On the other, the blooming of the noosphere (the mind of Gaia), the Web, the truly global village, the expansion of the dharma and outpouring of the Holy Spirit, harmonic convergence, the coming singularity, the uncanny conspiracy of prophets and futurists pointing to Dec 21, 2012 (at least an icon of a dawning ontology if not an actual date). We found the code for engineering transcendence, or destruction. The world is changing quickly in ways we can’t clearly understand or predict, but which we sense is of a different order. A new creation- old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. For better or worse, we are in a decisive moment in our story.
Finally, PLEROSIS is about me. Nathan Pederson. Child of Minnesota Winters. Forty plus, and I’m still sixteen when I close my eyes. I have a dual nature. Spiritual hunger and lust for life. Head in the clouds and feet in the muck. Which is plerotic? Which kenotic? I spend too much time thinking about this stuff, but in the meantime I live. And I’m planning to travel all over the place and write about it. So I made a website to do it. In this case, Plerosis is the filling up of these pages with the details, pictures, observations, maybe movies of my own time and place. It’s my story, told in selective snippets, colored how I like.
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