Deeptime Network | Joe Masterleo | Activity https://dtnetwork.org/our-members/ambient/activity/ Activity feed for Joe Masterleo. Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:21:56 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=9.1.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 09809ef64a3166dfaa62d0df8e1559a6 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, CMBR: The First Step in the Arc of Consciousness https://dtnetwork.org/?p=295082 Sun, 31 May 2026 15:35:41 -0400 [pic is of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation]
Why CMBR matters to the new Universe Story
CMBR is the baby picture of the universe — NASA quote, author unknown
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) be […]

]]> 0 f4edf1b760053bd9ad7c6f847de52b3d Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Finding the Middle Path: The Spirit-Science Synergy of Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry https://dtnetwork.org/?p=294901 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:06:58 -0400 Our challenge is to create a new language, even a new sense of what it is to be human — Thomas Berry
Introduction
Thomas Berry believed that ethical behavior emerges when humans align with the universe’s a […]

]]> 0 faead38565aa14eea776f49ab59ca264 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 10: Teilhard's Spirit-Soul, (what he meant, and left undefined) https://dtnetwork.org/?p=294714 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:42:29 -0400 Matter is spirit moving slow enough to be seen — Teilhard de Chardin
Teilhard hyphenated the words spirit and soul to read spirit-soul because, as a synthesis thinker, he saw the human interior life not as two se […]

]]> 0 fac91a124fdc599a66ed44a432243a60 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 9: Chaos, Conflict, and Coherence: War as Evolutionary Pressure https://dtnetwork.org/?p=294350 Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:43:47 -0400 The first casualty in war is truth — Aeschylus
How to make evolutionary sense of war in cosmogenesis — past, present, and future
Teilhard’s experience in war, especially WWI, where he served as stretcher bear […]

]]> 0 923ad9a27377e88181e78e237b49f61a Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 8: Unus Mundus (One World), The Scientific Evidence for Teilhard's Cosmogenic Convergence, and a New Science of Humanity https://dtnetwork.org/?p=293802 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:44:52 -0500 By the incarnation, God descended into nature to ‘superanimate it’ and lead it back to God-self — Teilhard.
Above image:  The 4 Homo spiralis Archetypes in One Glance (in Ascending Order):
Homo spiralis, s […]

]]> 0 7fea997c3465029567c969d184b99247 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 7: The Advent of Homo spiralis https://dtnetwork.org/?p=293470 Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:47:18 -0500 If you’re going to have a story, have a big story or none at all — Joseph Campbell
Abstract: In Parts 1-6, key principles, patterns, and historical innovators have been identified that together lend a deep ti […]

]]> 0 d0ab435ffe85c08261b84398d23ffd91 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 6: Monad-ology, Spiritual Seeing, Hearing, and Knowing https://dtnetwork.org/?p=292860 Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:58:05 -0500 Christogenesis, Part 6:
Monad-ology, Spiritual Seeing, Hearing, and Knowing
by Joe Masterleo
 
Those who were seen dancing were thought insane by those who could not hear the music –Neitzche
We begin Part […]

]]> 0 282a1f65d1c67dd96c363d23773487b1 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 5: The Spiritualization of Consciousness https://dtnetwork.org/?p=292205 Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:02:37 -0500 Christogenesis, Part 5: The Spiritualization of Consciousness
by Joe Masterleo
 
The whole of life lies in the verb seeing — Teilhard de Chardin
Cosmogenesis is an unfolding story that is both science and […]

]]> 0 fd1b2379587b98292d48b1ab7541c6b4 Joe Masterleo posted a new activity comment https://dtnetwork.org/labyrint-cosmology-finding-your-role-our-evolving-universe/#comment-137950 Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:29:58 -0500 Interesting Lars, the center of the labyrinth segwaus with sacred geometry and the spiral motif, the subject of the blog entry just prior to and after yours, also described in my other blog entries. The portal to liminal space and spiritual consciousness lies at the center point of the spiral, in science known as the Zero-Point Field, the magnetic…[Read more]

In reply to - Lars Howlett wrote a new post, Labyrinth Cosmology: Finding Your Role in Our Evolving Universe In this Veriditas workshop, we will discover the universal patterns and symbolism woven into the design and experience […] ]]> 92e16cd542de7b874da5943702935aa0 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 4:  Jigsawing, The New Universe Story in 5-D https://dtnetwork.org/?p=291385 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:48:51 -0500 The unifying force of the multiple cannot be composed of the multiple — T. Chardin
Eco-theologian Thomas Berry was an advocate of scientist-theologian Teilhard de Chardin. Berry challenged his followers to tel […]

]]> 0 211e3dc25bcad1994f4b25d6d95a01ac Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 3: The Spiral Dynamic, Bridging the Personal and Universal in Cosmogenic Evolution https://dtnetwork.org/?p=290745 Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:56:17 -0500 Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms — rarely if ever in straight lines — Starhawk (“The Spiral Dance”).
Past and present, there are a number of global […]

]]> 0 aba51f950883879818618dce3d86d830 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 2: Grounding, The Bridge Between Spirituality and Science, Inner and Outer Worlds https://dtnetwork.org/?p=290650 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:08:04 -0500 There is no such thing as energy and spirit, there is only energy in two phases .  .  . the without and within are two faces of the same energy — Teilhard de Chardin 
[Pictogram above is an image of an el […]

]]> 0 788cced4d9d8a1e77912f87925e540fa Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenesis, Part 1: Coming of Age in the God-of-the-Whole https://dtnetwork.org/?p=290486 Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:05:32 -0500 Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if the limits to our ability do not exist. We are collaborators in creation. – Teilhard de Chardin
The “God of the gaps” is a pejorative term for the argument that […]

]]> 0 7d08d0b4963bb6bf22457442e2539bd4 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Cosmogenesis: A Spirit-Science Layer Cake, American Style https://dtnetwork.org/?p=289927 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:12:19 -0400 It seems to me . . . that America  holds in its hands the immediate future of the world: as long as Ameria knows how to develop the sense of the earth at the same time as her sense of liberty —Teilhard de […]

]]> 0 b5d83114b52b8f57b65360894ac9a788 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Spiritual Physics: The Future? Or A Bridge Too Far? https://dtnetwork.org/?p=289255 Sat, 27 Sep 2025 13:15:55 -0400 The time has come to realize that an interpretation of the universe . . . remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that […]

]]> 0 1ee4f8f23ba63549028f2409c01060a3 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Teilhard's Mystical Bridge: The Geometric Heartbeat and Lifeblood of the Universe https://dtnetwork.org/?p=288548 Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:44:22 -0400 The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence — (Nikola Tesla).

[Above: A counter-rotating spiral diagram […]

]]> 0 f996d3442b5a9dac352df74df043ee69 Joe Masterleo posted a new activity comment https://dtnetwork.org/new-universe-story/#comment-130014 Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:11:20 -0400 Good synthesis stuff, Mary, real good. I much enjoyed reading it. My art doesn’t include painting, but it does interpret the images found in nature’s geometric forms, where conscious and energy converge, centrate, and are clothed. Ironically, just had a column posted after yours with a map that updates the latest findings in the frontiers of…[Read more]

In reply to - Gagandeep Singh wrote a new post, New Universe Story (Works by Mary Conrow Coelho) New Universe Story Works by Mary Conrow Coelho, author of Awakening Universe, Emerging Personhood   Within the past two […] ]]> 71dde9bf12cd15b1e418c7b9bb94c095 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Christogenic Convergence: From Human to Metahuman https://dtnetwork.org/?p=288141 Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:51:10 -0400 There is neither spirit nor matter in the world. The stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could have produced the human molecule – Teilhard de Chardin

[Above: An updated Science a […]

]]> 1 a51a0c47c434852eaacb1f27f38372b3 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Scientific Basis for Christogenesis, Part 3 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=287668 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:39:49 -0400 You never change anything by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete –Buckminster Fuller

What follows is Part 3 of a three-part series on t […]

]]> 0 3b67e95849c67f36f35230f8ba81dbe8 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Scientific Basis for Christogenesis, Part 2 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=287493 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:05:28 -0400 Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold together that are complementary — Teilhard de Chardin

What follows is Part 2 of a three-part series on the […]

]]> 0 458600fb15ef37330196498a3ea292e6 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Scientific Basis for Christogenesis, Part 1 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=287451 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:04:11 -0400  The unifying force of the multiple cannot be composed of the multiple – Teilhard de Chardin

What follows is Part 1 of a three-part series on the science of Christogenesis. Part 1 introduces the ongoing ch […]

]]> 0 0957e5652fcfce2d5f894da32f8deb8f Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, A Scientific Basis for Christogenesis (Spirituality and Education), Part 4 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=287818 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:24:33 -0400 “Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything” — Ian McGilchrist, (commenting on the left-hemisphere of the brain).

Part 4 is a summary explaining how the Cosmic or Universal Christ was originally […]

]]> 0 e37289ceca8ca9090e48d9eb40255898 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Crop Circles: Radial and Tangential Energies of Love https://dtnetwork.org/?p=287124 Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:29:38 -0400 Someday after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire – T […]

]]> 0 bf7c1c1a60a567365c2ff8320fa62f93 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Trysting Place: Unitive Consciousness https://dtnetwork.org/?p=286752 Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:07:26 -0400  

The unifying force of the multiple cannot be composed of the multiple – Teilhard de Chardin

Developing a New Universe Story and all-inclusive cosmogenesis paradigm involves reconciling all fields of kn […]

]]> 0 6fb5691c87cde5b00afdfb56b047cc07 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Second Coming of Nikola Tesla https://dtnetwork.org/?p=285871 Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:10:25 -0400 The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event, probably greater, and more important than any other in the history of the planet. (Nikola Tesla)

April 10, 2025 marked the 70th […]

]]> 0 f19a6abbe3a2394345e3c9b748dd3e1a Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Update: Earth's Best Kept Secret, Part 2 https://dtnetwork.org/?p=285364 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:30:42 -0400 Update: Earth’s Best Kept Secret, Part II

The phenomenon of UFO’s does exist, and it must be treated seriously (Mikhail Gorbachev, 1990).

The following is an update on the author’s blog entry of May 24 2021 […]

]]> 0 b98f82f379da7cb521522823e4404cde Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Cosmic Egg https://dtnetwork.org/?p=284526 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:10:53 -0400 In all chaos there is cosmos, in all disorder a secret order — Carl Jung

The Cosmic Egg is a universal cosmogonic or mythological symbol dating back millennia. Utilized by a dozen or more cultures worldwide in […]

]]> 0 c9ace9e671e0cfd0b461115308249690 Joe Masterleo posted a new activity comment https://dtnetwork.org/our-cosmic-heritage-2/#comment-121939 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:12:18 -0500 Seems that if the future is a measure of man’s wisdom, the outlook isn’t promising. I think a higher principle and energy has to be involved, and with an urgency and rapidity that can’t wait for evolution. Unitive consciousness is the key, but not of the traditionally religious kind. As biology eventually became interpreted by chemistry, and…[Read more]

In reply to - Gagandeep Singh wrote a new post, OUR COSMIC HERITAGE Our Cosmic Heritage by Eric J. Chaisson (Published in Zygon, December 1988) I suggest that cosmic evolution is a powerful synthesis to use as perspective-a […] ]]> 520e98a4c068dc404df319de215e9fe3 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Making Light of Cosmogenesis: How the Everything Creates Something from Nothing https://dtnetwork.org/?p=284012 Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:19:34 -0500 (Above image is of Meister Eckhart, 1260-1328)

We must learn to penetrate things and find God there – Eckhart

A viable, all-inclusive Spirit-Science model of cosmogenesis must necessarily include a fo […]

]]> 0 5f195d97c86d36725c40d3143b523f28 Joe Masterleo posted a new activity comment https://dtnetwork.org/richard-rohrs-daily-meditations/#comment-120593 Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:45:19 -0500 Not sure how the earth transforms ITSELF into birds, bees, butterflies, human thought, etc. Such implies that the transforming agent is horizontally caused by the earth, making such material forms to intelligently appear or arise. By what mechanism do these created things arise and take shape from the material? And from what spiritual tradition…[Read more]

In reply to - Gagandeep Singh wrote a new post, The Universe Story Is Spiritual, by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker The Universe Story Is Spiritual Richard Rohr’s Daily […] ]]> a84e7406a7eb0c90bfbbb3a278eaf290 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Magic of Earthing https://dtnetwork.org/?p=283182 Fri, 10 Jan 2025 14:32:22 -0500  

I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth – bare feet best, and thrill every step. (John Muir)

Earthing is the practice of physically connecting to the earth so that the body can take on its electrons, th […]

]]> 0 56cbdfd308f94f4210292ba2c1adeefc Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Unitive Consciousness: The Reunion of Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End https://dtnetwork.org/?p=282818 Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:48:57 -0500  I am the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning at the end (Revelation 22:13).

Every story must have a beginning and an end. The better stories also have a cohering middle, theme, or context […]

]]> 0 49a521022f35f278f03ca515ee1901d0 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Omega Tree, (and Cryptogenesis) https://dtnetwork.org/?p=282559 Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:40:21 -0500 Do you see what I see? A star, a star, dancing in the night with a tail as big as a kite, with a tail as big as big as a kite. —  Noel Rigney (lyrics), Celina Shane (music)

Inherited language is not adequate […]

]]> 0 64893a0b25f26949b15630e8ae41389a Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, November Election Results: A Long View https://dtnetwork.org/?p=282403 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 10:51:51 -0500 Blog by Joseph Masterleo
Note: Blogs posted by members are not necessarily the views of the Deeptime Network staff.

 

Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are Go […]

]]> 0 136027e36c74618b6e6a2bd1ce97daa8 Joe Masterleo replied to the topic Election Results in the US and Deeptime in the forum Deeptime Network Forum https://dtnetwork.org/forums/topic/election-results-in-the-us-and-deeptime/#post-282365 Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:40:38 -0500  

 

I too was disappointed by the recent election results, and appropriately grieved. But not for long, not after practicing a daily devotional, part of which serves to differentiate the spiritual self from the natural self, and determining which is to centrally informs me. So differentiated, each “self” is indispensable in adapting to the…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f35f0b30b93e3ada7b87fd2662d4989 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Storytelling: Cosmogenesis, Vaudeville, and Christology https://dtnetwork.org/?p=280130 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:56:56 -0400  

 

Storytelling:  Cosmogenesis, Vaudeville, and Christology

By Joe Masterleo

I’m writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves – Lena Waithe

[What follows is a look back at Ear […]

]]> 0 8d864904f8fd8c7bbe94cdf7a33f3f20 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Wisdom (Sapientia) and Science (Scientia): Horse and Carriage https://dtnetwork.org/?p=279578 Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:26:51 -0400 Wisdom (Sapientia) and Science (Scientia): Horse and Carriage
Blog Post by Joe Masterleo
Sapientia is the Latin word for “wisdom,” whose root has experiential implications, meaning “to taste.” This word is asso […]

]]> 0 7721040f32ab662854ce036d1a645712 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, On Seeing Double: Thomas and Didymus, Science and Spirituality https://dtnetwork.org/?p=279125 Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:50:21 -0400 On Seeing Double:
Thomas and Didymus, Science and Religion
Blog by Joe Masterleo
 

The Gospel of Thomas is a gospel of light, even more so than the Gospel of John, but in a different, complementary way. […]

]]> 0 92cfb025faee9cca5340682f1740b76c Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, A Member's Thank You, and Challenge, to Our First Lady of Story https://dtnetwork.org/?p=278706 Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:28:32 -0400 Jennifer:

Much thanks for the Holmdel rundown, and your efforts in making that event possible, especially for those of us who could only be there via your fine column. The pics and summary were very reflective […]

]]> 0 8e77ede105b110a9c6d281078e784437 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, May Day https://dtnetwork.org/?p=277884 Thu, 09 May 2024 16:35:29 -0400 May Day

“Among the changing months, May stands confessed the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.”
– James Thompson

On May 1, countless people around the world celebrate May Day, the spring holiday. […]

]]> 0 afd54a79d92ce63ba70f8c0fd0dbbf11 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Penzias and Wilson: The Sound of Light https://dtnetwork.org/?p=277323 Wed, 03 Apr 2024 18:34:58 -0400 Penzias and Wilson: The Sound of Light
                     by Joe Masterleo                         
                                                      
                                              […]

]]> 0 7a4ac6aae47e79c3c951533635fb1a33 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Shrouded by Mystery: The First Selfie https://dtnetwork.org/?p=276730 Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:29:00 -0400 by Joe Masterleo
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing” (William Ja […]

]]> 0 72fd1ac91f47857b77171af789d45269 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Web of Life (Starring the Itsy-Bitsy Spider) https://dtnetwork.org/?p=276048 Sat, 03 Feb 2024 19:43:18 -0500  

            The Web of Life: (Starring the Itsy-Bitsy Spider)

“The greatest artist and web-designer ever is indeed a spider” – Munia Kahn

Scripture teaches that nature is our first Bible, suggesti […]

]]> 0 412cac26526461c4399d41d7e7acf603 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, The Future is Now https://dtnetwork.org/?p=275644 Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:28:29 -0500 The Future is Now
“At the heart of every being lies creation’s dream of a principle that will one day give organic form to its fragmented treasures. God is unity” (Teilhard de Chardin).

In ancient Roman religi […]

]]> 0 653bb66f677f644376b4ea7eaa362395 Joe Masterleo posted an update: . . . just resubscribed to DTN after a two-year hiatus, […] https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/46113/ Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:48:41 -0500 . . . just resubscribed to DTN after a two-year hiatus, and posted a website in my area of interest, joemasterleo.com — If viewed, comments, critiques, and questions most welcome

]]> 0 03443cfc2a7a64cb9461b0ecd73d1c28 Joe Masterleo updated new location at Rockledge, FL, USA https://dtnetwork.org/activity/p/33611/ Sun, 31 Oct 2021 14:40:53 -0400 0 3c98bc718829f65559624a08ea61485e Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Declassified: Earth's Best Kept Secret https://dtnetwork.org/?p=253711 Mon, 24 May 2021 12:41:49 -0400 Above Image:  Hubble Deep Field, NASA

[What follows was recently added to the last chapter of the author’s book, The Ambient Christ, a synthesis of scientific and religious cosmologies (a […]

]]> 0 b0902be26f1db0b5a11b80bc303de478 Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Reconciled: Creation and Evolution https://dtnetwork.org/?p=252912 Tue, 04 May 2021 09:40:06 -0400 Creation and Evolution Stories Reconciled
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY EPISODE 3Hello everyone!We continue our […]

]]> 0 d4e27412848f8955d3a4589a4296331e Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, Sacred Geometry https://dtnetwork.org/?p=252387 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:25:52 -0400 Sacred Geometry

“Mathematics is the alphabet with which God has written the universe” (Galileo).

Sacred geometry is a universal language that describes the inner workings of nature and the intrinsic order […]

]]> 0 d132b89a6f15103a8eb3060e8360d24b Joe Masterleo wrote a new post, A Postmodern Cosmotheology https://dtnetwork.org/?p=251932 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 20:27:06 -0400 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry were visionaries whose life and work were inspired by integral thinking and unitive consciousness. Hence, the further development of their contributions along the lines […]

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