[Platt] Thanks. One more question. What do you find problematic in the following passage?
"One would hardly imagine that picking up a college physics textbook one is actually handling a religious document that has carefully been scrubbed clean of all dirty words such as intuition, eternity and Godhead. But the central concern of physical science revolves around the concept of energy and its transformations, whether those transformations occur in molecules, biological systems, or computers. And how is the Energy described? It can be neither created nor destroyed, put together nor taken apart, and on the whole it is neither increasing or decreasing, remaining always constant. This, in fact, is the First Law of Thermodynamics. Further, the Energy of the universe, which remains forever constant, undergoes "transformations" or "manifestations, for all types of energy and matter, whether kinetic, thermal, or molecular, are spoken of as "Forms of Energy." As a matter a fact, all phenomena in the universe are nothing but forms of Energy, so that his Energy, more or less, underlies all material things. (Sunlight) This is pure physics, but it sounds strangely familiar, and one begins to wonder if we are discussing physics of Hinduism. Ultimately, it matters not one whit whether we say that all things are forms of Energy or forms of Brahman." (Ken Wilber, "The Spectrum of Consciousness,."p.185---parens added) . [Krimel] I think this illustrates beautifully the trouble with Wilber. He is going along fine. Who could argue with that and then POW: "Ultimately, it matters not one whit whether we say that all things are forms of Energy or forms of Brahman." -Ken Wilber, "The Spectrum of Consciousness, It most certainly does matter. Hinduism has little more than metaphor to offer particle physicists. Who is the Hindu god of the weak force? BTW, I meant that sunlight is the force under girding life on earth not that it is fundamental to the cosmos. 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/
