tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8812775757686839805..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: The World Cannot be a Little Bit Pregnant with MeaningGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33896844566414408802015-11-24T06:45:51.968-08:002015-11-24T06:45:51.968-08:00This is too good,I really like this share,..It'...This is too good,I really like this share,..It's too good,.<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/h2Q987OTHMU" rel="nofollow">"Nonlocal Guide" </a>Genniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14777711432599849366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-5083864592449866562015-01-27T05:51:46.232-08:002015-01-27T05:51:46.232-08:00Speculation must have covered the critical thinkin...Speculation must have covered the critical thinking books.tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07354048695798015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-34688337330157471002015-01-26T22:24:17.438-08:002015-01-26T22:24:17.438-08:00"So: because music is "pure dynamic form..."So: because music is "pure dynamic form, I think that it is both suggestive and meaningful to say that the atom now appears to be music.""<br /><br />That tickles me down to my toes. Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57454657902974487652015-01-26T20:21:03.634-08:002015-01-26T20:21:03.634-08:00I've been in a few similar places, though it&#...I've been in a few similar places, though it's been a long time. Bet it smelled like incense and/ or patchouli.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-33083612750364971042015-01-26T20:13:02.630-08:002015-01-26T20:13:02.630-08:00UFOs, healing crystals, the Bermuda Triangle, do-i...UFOs, healing crystals, the Bermuda Triangle, do-it-yourself pyramids, channeling, psychokinesis, reincarnation, astrology, the Mayan calendar, ouija boards, wicca, crop circles, shamanism, tantra, quantum healing, AND EVEN <i>speculation</i>.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38334473134364661462015-01-26T19:57:07.873-08:002015-01-26T19:57:07.873-08:00My favorite section at the boddhi tree bookstore w...My favorite section at the boddhi tree bookstore was, "speculation." Leslie Godwinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11794375005614166921noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49997033109668879722015-01-26T11:51:35.610-08:002015-01-26T11:51:35.610-08:00Apropos last week's discussions, the Middle Ag...Apropos last week's discussions, <a href="http://www.prageruniversity.com/History/How-Dark-Were-the-Dark-Ages.html" rel="nofollow">the Middle Ages</a> at Prager University.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-81469074963814537592015-01-26T11:27:53.510-08:002015-01-26T11:27:53.510-08:00a continuum point of view which stresses that no i...<i>a continuum point of view which stresses that no individual human exists in any kind of biological isolation</i><br /><br />Julie may be right. That could be the message for today.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-1043719896591220272015-01-26T11:22:24.714-08:002015-01-26T11:22:24.714-08:00Probably in the usual way, via nonlocal attractors...<i>Probably in the usual way, via nonlocal attractors synchronistically drawing them together into the same vertical phase space.</i><br /><br />Arthur C. Clarke's third law says: <i>Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.</i><br /><br />I see technology as trying to emulate what's been regarded as "magic". I like the internet, but SpiritNet has been around a lot longer.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-27423624968513892812015-01-26T09:33:37.273-08:002015-01-26T09:33:37.273-08:00"So I think that Pythagoras with his vision o...<i>"So I think that Pythagoras with his vision of the universe as music or waves deserves as much credit as Democritus with his vision of the particulate or atomic aspect of matter." Exactly: not either/or, but both/and.</i><br /><br />Seems like you and Mushroom are coming at similar ideas today, from different sides (in my mind, anyway), so I'll just reiterate here what I said <a href="http://funglejungle.blogspot.com/2015/01/how-to-love-god.html" rel="nofollow">over there</a>:<br /><br /><i>When we step into the spiritual realm, when we begin to “rejoice with those who rejoice” even as we “weep with those who weep” (Romans 12:5), we begin to see that there is no distance or distinction in Christ because the very same Holy Spirit, the very same Person, the very same God dwells in and gives life to each and every one of us. </i><br /><br />I'm reminded of the process of empathetic mirroring, the natural process whereby we react in accord with another person. In a sense, it is a process of taking the other into ourselves, sharing in joys and sorrows. If we can't do it on the most minimal level (as many seem unable to do; thinking of some of the tortures mentioned that were "normal" in the past), how can we ever stand to meet God face to face?juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56206312912768827432015-01-26T09:27:18.827-08:002015-01-26T09:27:18.827-08:00"Having said that, as Hartshorne writes, of t..."Having said that, as Hartshorne writes, of the two sides of a complementarity, one will always be more fundamental than the other, even if we never see them apart. As for wave/particle, the wave must be ontologically prior, because it is impossible to get from random particle to coherent wave."<br /><br />Since the wave is ontologically prior doesn't it surf to reason that there is no random particle?USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-38405261885760409402015-01-26T09:20:37.826-08:002015-01-26T09:20:37.826-08:00"Pauli was skeptical of the Darwinian reducti..."Pauli was skeptical of the Darwinian reduction of evolution to accidental mutations. Rather, he proposed a nonlocal order of the cosmos revolving around archetypes that shape "matter and spirit equally." For example, there are mathematical archetypes (i.e., boundary conditions) to which matter dances, just as there are spiritual archetypes -- those helpful nonlocal operators standing by, ready to assist us -- that help guide our journey."<br /><br />So Pauli really was a wise guy.USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12662655754019994182015-01-26T09:11:02.994-08:002015-01-26T09:11:02.994-08:00"The great physicist Werner Heisenberg contri..."The great physicist Werner Heisenberg contributed an essay that makes a point that has captivated me ever since. Speaking of his colleague Wolfgang Pauli, he writes that he too "was captivated by the attempt to talk about material and psychical processes in the same language." He even spoke of the possibility of a "common language" to describe both physical and psychical processes, what he called "psycho-physical monism," a "mode of expression for the unity of all being.""<br /><br />Or, as we like to call it, speaking raccoon.<br />USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.com