Process - Part 1

Professor, do you mind if we go back to the beginning of your work, Process, so I can ask you some questions?

Of course not - how about if I read it to you and you stop me when you have a question?

That would be great.

Alright then, here we go.

Process - A Spiritual Journey to a Partnership with Nature
by Robert A. Macoskey © 2000 by Vivas Macoskey, reprinted and adapted with permission

"AND THERE WAS PROCESS

In the beginning was Process;

and Process was both joining and separating;

and Process was not personal;

but personality was hidden inside awaiting only the appearance of persons,

and Process had no beginning.

It was, and is, and will be:  worlds, and solar systems and galaxies, and all they contain.

Transitions without endings.

"And Process moves from simple things and events to complex things and events and back again:  one vast coming and going interconnected and pulsating Whole.

“In the endless course of transition, there are side plays on the cosmic stage when the simplest of things (which are anything but simple) slow their outward journey.  But Process allows only a short rest before drawing them back together.  These simplest of things mix.  Their mixing creates new combinations and as their union becomes more intimate, the tempo increases causing heat, light, and solids to pirouette outward in frenzied whirlings toward infinitely novel destinies – which are designed on the way.  ‘The Law of Heaven and Truth were born of conscious fervor set on fire.’”

Okay, let’s stop there.  So, this is obviously a creation story.

Well, not entirely, but I figured I’d start at the beginning.

And what you’re referring to as “Process” is a representation of the totality of existence?

I’ve chosen to call reality “Process” because I wanted to emphasize the “endless course of transition” or what you have referred to in your Philosophy of Sustainability as the tenet of Impermanence.

And the phrase, 'The laws of Heaven and Truth were born of conscious fervor set on fire."  Where is that from?

From 3 or 4 thousand years ago as contained in the Hymn of Origin from the Rig-Veda.

Please continue.