Everywhere there is conscious life that’s all made from the exact same core substance. The universe is part of ‘All That Is’, which is the same as God who is the ultimate creator entity. Deeper inquiry into this idea can bring some pretty potent revelation. Contemplate the macrocosm as the universe and the microcosm being you. We see the same patterns reproduced in all levels of the cosmos from the largest scale all the way down to the smallest sub-atomic substance including the metaphysical. To put it another way, the meaning of ‘as above so below’ is that everything is a microcosm of the macrocosm. By observing one relation you gain knowledge of the reflected whole. The universe and Earth are of the same pattern. It simply says that the greater and the lesser are alike. This principle of correspondence speaks to the mirror-image relationship between all cosmos. Hermes was credited with thousands of writings of high standing which were reputed to be of immense antiquity. This adage is said to have its origins from the Greek, Hermes Trismegistus, also known as Thoth in ancient Egypt and acknowledged as a ‘scribe for the Gods’. AAI3229858.There is a popular saying, “As above so below, as within so without”. McKnight, Sarah M, "Macrocosm and microcosm: The emergent sacred in the work of Thomas Berry and C. Religion|Philosophy|Psychology|Philosophy Recommended Citation The science of emergence and its dynamic sense of something new and different arising at the edge of chaos is explored and linked to the Jungian symbol of the mandorla as an apt image for the overlap that may be created from Jung's Microcosmic view of individuation with Berry's Macrocosmic vision of the Universe Story. Their inquiry into the Western understanding of technology seems to portray a general zeitgeist shift, or New Story. This dissertation marshals suggestive background support for the process of such a paradigm shift by examining the deep wonderings of selected Western philosophers, poets, and scientists, (Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Hölderlin, Werner Heisenberg, et al.) who personally challenge the question of technological advancement and its effect on Being. This new paradigm shift relies on Thomas Kuhn's idea that a new conceptual scheme appears in order to create and communicate language that will make comprehensible the emergence of new scientific theory. A paradigm shift, in a Kuhnian sense, may be occurring in our time that requires greater consciousness of humans' relationship with and in the universe Berry is attempting to guide humanity toward this re-educated view. The works of these two scholars complement the notion that the individual, and the universe as a whole, mirror each other, in their innate longing for emergence of sacred revelation in every being, both Microcosmic and Macrocosmic in the vastness of the universe. This dissertation explores the possibility that Berry and Jung, each through their individual body of work, are bringing into consciousness a context for humanity's new myth for our time, a new cosmology. This dissertation examines Berry's proposal for a new viable myth, and asks whether Berry's intention can be strengthened by contemplating and integrating it with Jung's understanding of the conscious coming to know the unconscious. This dissertation explains Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme's cosmological enterprise as proposed in The Universe Story: The Universe as the primary revelation of the sacred and seeks to connect it to C.G. Sarah M McKnight, Salve Regina University Macrocosm and microcosm: The emergent sacred in the work of Thomas Berry and C.
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