Entering the Divine Flow Part 7

October 12, 2026

When we are caught in chaos, it is hard to sense divine flow. Everything seems turned upside down. Disorder reigns, much is at risk, and familiar solutions no longer work. Life feels beyond our control.

How can chaos be part of divine order—much less divine flow? How can we step into chaos and say that we are entering divine flow?

For more than eighty years, beginning with the Manhattan Project and the first atomic detonation in 1945, humanity has lived with the knowledge that nuclear weapons could destroy civilization. Can this possibility be part of divine order and flow?

Now, planet Earth faces major climatic and ecological changes driven largely by human activity. Melting glaciers and ice sheets are raising sea levels, while thawing permafrost releases greenhouse gases that may intensify global warming. Habitats are being disrupted, and many species face an increasing risk of extinction.

What about this is divine flow?

Now there is a newer, potentially more urgent disruption to the status quo. In 2025, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, warned that extremely powerful AI could arrive as early as late 2026 or early 2027, bringing humanity “almost unimaginable power” and testing us as a species.

Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at both Anthropic and OpenAI, recently resigned from Anthropic and wrote that the laboratories are “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” He added that some of the people building AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade.

These are warnings, not certainties. Nevertheless, they demand our sober attention. What about this is divine flow?

Together, these three dangers have a global reach and potential consequences unlike almost anything humanity has faced. Is there any room within them for divine flow? Yes. Though it may be difficult to believe, these threats to life as we know it are also a profound call for human ingenuity, moral courage, spiritual depth, and cooperation at levels never before required of us. They call us to humility before a mystery and an order far greater than our own understanding.

Albert Einstein wrote:

“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe—a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we, with our modest powers, must feel humble.” —Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives

Remember the Law of Three proposed by George Gurdjieff: affirming force, denying force, and reconciling force. The reconciling force does not merely defeat one side or return things to the way they were. It brings the opposing forces into a new relationship from which something different may emerge.

We might understand order, disorder, and renewed order as one expression of this law. However, the Law of Three does not guarantee that every change will be upward or beneficial. Human participation, consciousness, and moral choice still matter.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary theology describes a universe moving toward greater complexity, consciousness, and unity, drawn toward its fulfillment in the Divine. Change, in his vision, is woven into the becoming of creation. Ken Wilber’s Integral Theory likewise proposes that healthy development “transcends and includes”: it moves beyond an earlier form while preserving what remains essential. Even when development becomes fragmented or pathological, it has not fallen outside Spirit.

So, in reflection, we might say that chaos is not necessarily divine flow. Cruelty, destruction, and human irresponsibility should never be called divine merely because they occur. I do not believe that evil is of the divine. Yet chaos and evil can exist within a larger movement of divine ordering, where they may become the place where transformation begins.

What appears to us as disintegration may sometimes be the breaking apart of an order that can no longer contain the life seeking to emerge. Order provides a working vessel. Disorder breaks open the vessel. Divine reconciliation gathers what must be preserved and amalgamates it into a more spacious form of life.

The disorders we are experiencing are massive. Yet we have the opportunity to enter them courageously. Even when the divine flow within them is not apparent, once we enter the circumstance, we can consciously co-create with God in the work of divine reconciliation which keeps the flow going.

Spiritual Practice

Formulate your own worldview of divine flow. Where do you see it operating in the changes taking place within you and around you?

Inquiry

In your worldview, what is most important to preserve as we evolve and undergo profound change? Can it be preserved unchanged—or must its form also evolve?

Prayer

Dear God, Even when life appears overwhelmingly chaotic, give me the courage to enter its currents and participate in what You are seeking to bring about—in me and in the world.

Amen