Posted by Mike
When we sense that we are on to Truth, sometimes we get a feeling that is something like what we have when we see a beautiful sunrise.
What is this rather intangible thing that we call truth? In an earlier posting, I wrote about aspects of truth which I called established truth and emergent [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 31, 2009
Truth: Revisited
January 27, 2009
The Pride and Prejudice in Evolution
Posted by: David
I’d like to look at evolution based on why it enflames human sensibilities rather than looking too much into the details of the phenomena. The reason why few understand evolution is because of pride and fear in the human heart. Let’s borrow from Jane Austen and call it a pride and prejudice.
First let [...]
January 25, 2009
Established Truth and Awakening Truth
posted by Mike
I suspect that truth in all areas is a lot like scientific truth. Truth in science has been and is a gradual acquiring of knowledge about the world (the universe and life). I have recently been reading the essays of Stephen Jay Gould, the paleontologist and zoologist. He wrote monthly essays for over [...]
January 25, 2009
“What is Truth?”
Posted by: David
To answer this fundamental question, let’s return to the idea of our outer lives as projections of our inner lives.
In this day and age, there’s a deep reluctance to ascribe objectivity to the world around us. “Truth is as variable as the tides,” might be a saying of a post-modern coastal tribe. There [...]
January 24, 2009
Secular Christianity
Posted by Mike
It does sound like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? And yet, I expect that we have more secular religious people around than you’d might think. Just recently we had in town representatives of an organization of secular Judaism. They were in the process of developing a congregation in the area, so that non-believing Jews [...]
January 23, 2009
Everyone is an Artist
Posted by: David
Let’s return to the idea of our minds, our awareness, our thoughts and our inner lives as a force. This force moves our bodies and causes us to act in ways that mirror the thoughts that flow out of our minds. In many ways, these thoughts become manifested in reality, sometimes directly and [...]
January 22, 2009
Monica’s Wooden Rule
Posted by: David
“In her dream she saw herself standing on a sort of wooden rule, and saw a bright youth approaching her, joyous and smiling at her, while she was grieving and bowed down with sorrow. But when he inquired of her the cause of her sorrow and daily weeping (not to learn from her, [...]
January 20, 2009
What does “hope springs eternal” mean?
Posted by: David
Just yesterday, I was thinking about why things grow and why things die based on the idea of awareness as a force. Yes, I understand Biology 101: things grow because they take in the necessary chemistry for growth and things die due to various reasons. But I was looking further than this. I [...]
January 20, 2009
A Just Universe/Unjust Universe?
Posted by Mike
Is the universe just or is it unjust [or is this title just a vehicle for my musings]? We humans think in dichotomies much of the time; likely too much, as thinking that way abstracts information from the whole of reality and conceptualizes in ways that at times leaves the baby out as [...]
