As for the "lucid dreamer" analogy, check THIS out...
Alexei Nesteruk
Light from the East: Theology, Science, and the Eastern Orthodox Tradition
Page 232
"The human nature in Christ was operating within the reality of empirical space and historical time, whereas Christ's divine nature was always beyond the empirical and intelligible aeons, in the uncreated realm of the kingdom of God, which can be expressed symbolically in terms of the boundaries of the created if these boundaries are seen from the vertical (divine) dimension. It is from this "outside" that Christ the Logos of God coordinated the empirical space where he indwelled in the body with the rest of the created universe. This helps us to understand the space-time of the physical universe as the manifestation of the hypostatic mode of the relationship between God and the world."
Ok, now...Reposting...
All this would seem to fit with the "two minds" view...where the Incarnate Word has the Uncreated Divine Mind and a created human mind (nous). In MY OWN MIND, the analogy is the single lucid dreamer who obviously relates with two distinct levels of consciousness in his lucid dream.
Level 1: the level of consciousness creating the whole dream world from "without"
Level 2: the level of consciousness experiencing the dream as an individualized form from "within" the dream world.
In this framework, the lucid dreamer experiences herself both as creator (level 1) and creation (level 2) in one unique, personal experience. I can see the Christ-the-Logos' experience as Uncreated Creator and Incarnation as being something LIKE this.
If I may...
Christ's divine nature operation from "without" <=> Level 1 lucid dreamer perspective.
Christ's human nature operating within "empirical space and historical time <=> Level 2 lucid dreamer perspective.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
"I love, therefore I am in I Am. God is my life." |