Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Smith...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.
Huston SmithSeen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.
Huston SmithWhat is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
Huston Smith...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
Huston SmithAncient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too, for the Tiwis, who dissolve the distinction between themselves and the cosmos. In quantum physics, subatomic particles influence each other from a distance, and this tallies with the aboriginal view, in which people, animals, rocks, and trees all weave together in the same interwoven fabric.
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