... the fact is, after Galileo scientists began to pride themselves on not asking why things are the way they are, but only how. Because the Church had lost sight of the connection between cosmic and psychological purpose in the universe, the whole idea of purposes in nature fell into disrepute. The Church had become unable to do what is an essential task of all religion: to commuicate the purposes of existence in such a way that man can hope to experience them both in himself and in the cosmos. The Christian view of the universe was reduced instead to dgoma, in the sense of beliefs held without any method of verifying them for oneself. Modern science therefore rejected the wrong thing (as often happens in adversarial situations) ... The Church had come to read the book of nature through hard and dead categories. Science, while beginning as a search for new ways to read that book, soon ended by counting commas. (Reductionism)
Gradually but inexorably, the desire to manipulate nature moved to center stage. Pragmatism was born, and the purpose of knowledge came to be the satisfaction of desire rather than the growth of consciousness. A sacred idea... was grabbed by the ego, rendered external and became a dementing influence upon civilization. Jacob Needleman, A Sense of the Cosmos. -- ------------ Doing Good IS Being ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
