A good, but lengthy interiew with Rupert Sheldrake: http://www.thebestschools.org/features/rupert-sheldrake-interview/ <http://www.thebestschools.org/features/rupert-sheldrake-interview/>
Articulates some of what is being bandied about here: 1. Our viewpoint and how it effects our lives 2. Science, like religion, is a paradigm of belief and the paradigm changes 3. His morphic resonance theory is interesting (to me) and may led to the mystical experience On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 9:36:27 PM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > I agree most of that. The religious experience is mostly dead for me > unless it is interfering from old prejudice. Literature is full of > fictions and tricks, with the fictional structure forgotten as in > psychoanalysis or Marx's laws of history and god of economics (modern > economics is even worse). > > The Dawkins' delusion is very old. We might see it emerge in Compte and > the desire for a positive religion (sociology) of science. There was even > a free-love, hippy positivist, Enfantin. The gratest chat up line in > history is not 'Molly, I really love the way you regress to a foetal > condition in meditation'! We should dispute honestly in argument, yet > so-called rational argument is produced after the event. We would not find > much rational at the key-hole of scientists discussing how dumb religion > and mystical experience is with nothing measuring their smug index. > > On Friday, March 20, 2015 at 10:12:05 PM UTC, Molly wrote: > > "The primary purpose of a dynamic mythology, which we may underscore as > its properly religious function, is to awaken and maintain in the person an > experience of awe, humility, and respect in recognition of that ultimate > mystery that transcends every name and form, 'from which,' as we read in > the Upanishads, 'words turn back.' In recent decades, theology has often > concentrated on a literary exercise in the explanation of archaic texts > that are made up of historically conditioned, ambiguous names, incidents, > sayings, and actions, all of which are attributed to 'the ineffable.' > Faith, we might say, in old-fashioned scripture or faith in the latest > science belong equally at this time to those alone who as yet have no idea > of how mysterious, really, is the mystery of themselves. > > "Into how many of us has the weight desc > > ... -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
