RourkeMon, Jan 21, 2008 I don't think there is a 'solution' as such.
At the moment the two modes of human experience have been segregated into two camps, religion and science. This binary mode of thinking occurs throughout human experience and causes many more metaphysical headaches than mere theological and rational argument.
For me the answer is summed up in the Chinese and Japanese word: Mu
In the West we don't have such a concept. Mu is a bridge between Mythos and Logos, True and False, On and Off, One and Zero.
I suppose Mu is akin to a Quantum Superposition of thought - it is neither a 1 nor a 0, an up spin nor a down spin - Mu is both these things, simultaneously, and just as in Quantum Physics Mu represents a third state with a character all of its own, but one which can only be understood as a composite of both previous states.
Does the grand shift comes down to language then? A perceptual tool encapsulated in one syllable?
I don't think there is a 'solution' as such.
At the moment the two modes of human experience have been segregated into two camps, religion and science. This binary mode of thinking occurs throughout human experience and causes many more metaphysical headaches than mere theological and rational argument.
For me the answer is summed up in the Chinese and Japanese word: Mu
In the West we don't have such a concept. Mu is a bridge between Mythos and Logos, True and False, On and Off, One and Zero.
I suppose Mu is akin to a Quantum Superposition of thought - it is neither a 1 nor a 0, an up spin nor a down spin - Mu is both these things, simultaneously, and just as in Quantum Physics Mu represents a third state with a character all of its own, but one which can only be understood as a composite of both previous states.
Does the grand shift comes down to language then? A perceptual tool encapsulated in one syllable?