‘A plague on both your houses’ is a phrase from Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo And Juliet’ that’s commonly applied to criticize warring factions whose rivalry brings ruin to others. The dead-end argument…
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The basic contradiction of man is this: ‘higher thought’ (that is, symbolic or conscious thought) is inherently separative, whereas nature and the universe operate from the principle of seamless wholeness.…
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Science cannot function and advance without two premises, both of which are essential to the scientific enterprise, but adverse to life and right living: dualism and reductionism. The ultimate example…
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Deep beneath the earth, in a pool of super-chilled liquid xenon in an abandoned gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota, scientists are looking for ‘dark matter’. But…
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Human consciousness is an unexplained contradiction in the infinitely dynamic order of the universe. Consciousness is not ‘evolving,’ but becoming saturated with darkness. Is there an understanding of the relationship…
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With science replacing religion, and religion becoming a hollow imitation (or worse) of its former position and power in human civilization, the mad scientist trope has receded in movies and…
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It is the tragedy of our age that the more scientific knowledge expands, the less meaning human life has. Science simply cannot replace the religious impulse, which is distinct from…
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Meditations – As Einstein discovered, matter is actually a dense form of energy, which can be converted into pure energy–the basis of nuclear fission and fusion. Thought is perhaps the…