Thanks Unbecoming. I play (so far) a small part in the unlearning deception project. Pain is partially reconciled through acceptance and not taking rejection personally. I have promoted an idea for about fourty years now, relating to our root assumption about reality being 'split' between the spiritual and the physical. Maybe I am wrong given the lack of interest or engagement on the question, still I consider that the spiritual and the physical are fundamentally similar rather than being fundamentally different as both secular and religious folk take them to be. We are dysfunctional because we carry on with a false root assumption about reality. Recognition of this will help us on our way to the great awakening and our unlearning process.
The spiritual & physical worlds are real. The learning of conscious weaving is the task of humanity. You may appreciate the philosopher Rudolf Steiner & what he shares through Anthroposophy, toward this understanding & weaving.
Thanks for your comment Blythe Fair. No weaving needed if they are seen as basically the same thing. My best friend read every Steiner book written, some 140 books he said. I did not see that it helped in developing discrimination as he supported injections and idealistic notions (solutions) that did not properly identify the problem. Steiner was also associated with Malthusian personalities and Gnostic thinking, which to me reflects disrespect toward the physical aspect of reality. Thankfully we remained friends until the end when the injection finally killed him, without him thinking it was the injection, as far as I could tell. Our uncountable hours discussing philosophical issues is part of why I have skepticism toward all spiritual teachers. The dictionary def for Spirituality is to have more interest in human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. I protest, so I 'asked' what is spirituality? The response given was; Spirituality is the responsible use or application of free will. This def ties the subtle ('spiritual') to the manifest ('physical') in a clear cause and effect way. This, a simple constructive concept, contrasts with the obfuscation, virtue signaling and posing that seem to be encouraged by many varieties of spiritual pretensions. This def may also influence development of new physics where, well, we'll talk about that later. Please visit my stack for more unpopular opinions.
Our mechanistic and classical physics understanding of the world was successful in many ways but most of all in moving us further and further from the spiritual...
Dualism has been great for improving our analytical abilities, but if folk think that objects have hard boundary conditions, they will find objects to have hard boundaries. Objectivity is no simple thing to achieve.
The interviewer wrote truly excellent questions and Martin's responses, as always, are honest, illuminating and humble. My prayer is that those who read this will be drawn to what he shares, and be able to "find the beauty in the ordinary" as we 'work together for good as we love God'.
Thank you for sharing this, Martin. I am incredibly blessed to have you in my inbox and carry your deep goodness in my heart.
Never heard of Geddes to my knowledge, but an astute cookie I must say. One line stood out, "How do people get away with appalling acts, yet those around don't grasp the horror"? In a similar vein, Omar Sharif once said, "How is it that one murder can be labeled so monstrous, while millions being slaughtered in war elicits nothing". In both, I am left speechless.
Good to hear from Geddes again. I loved his book, and then drifted away from his writing somehow. He and I (among many) share a cultural upbringing, and I wonder sometimes if that earlier experience of breaking free informs the ability to keep doing it in what look like differing circumstances (I.e., having "natural immunity" to peer pressure around politics, jabby-pokes, etc.).
Excellent! Thank you for this introduction to Geddes.
Thanks Unbecoming. I play (so far) a small part in the unlearning deception project. Pain is partially reconciled through acceptance and not taking rejection personally. I have promoted an idea for about fourty years now, relating to our root assumption about reality being 'split' between the spiritual and the physical. Maybe I am wrong given the lack of interest or engagement on the question, still I consider that the spiritual and the physical are fundamentally similar rather than being fundamentally different as both secular and religious folk take them to be. We are dysfunctional because we carry on with a false root assumption about reality. Recognition of this will help us on our way to the great awakening and our unlearning process.
The spiritual & physical worlds are real. The learning of conscious weaving is the task of humanity. You may appreciate the philosopher Rudolf Steiner & what he shares through Anthroposophy, toward this understanding & weaving.
Thanks for your comment Blythe Fair. No weaving needed if they are seen as basically the same thing. My best friend read every Steiner book written, some 140 books he said. I did not see that it helped in developing discrimination as he supported injections and idealistic notions (solutions) that did not properly identify the problem. Steiner was also associated with Malthusian personalities and Gnostic thinking, which to me reflects disrespect toward the physical aspect of reality. Thankfully we remained friends until the end when the injection finally killed him, without him thinking it was the injection, as far as I could tell. Our uncountable hours discussing philosophical issues is part of why I have skepticism toward all spiritual teachers. The dictionary def for Spirituality is to have more interest in human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things. I protest, so I 'asked' what is spirituality? The response given was; Spirituality is the responsible use or application of free will. This def ties the subtle ('spiritual') to the manifest ('physical') in a clear cause and effect way. This, a simple constructive concept, contrasts with the obfuscation, virtue signaling and posing that seem to be encouraged by many varieties of spiritual pretensions. This def may also influence development of new physics where, well, we'll talk about that later. Please visit my stack for more unpopular opinions.
Our mechanistic and classical physics understanding of the world was successful in many ways but most of all in moving us further and further from the spiritual...
Dualism has been great for improving our analytical abilities, but if folk think that objects have hard boundary conditions, they will find objects to have hard boundaries. Objectivity is no simple thing to achieve.
"Your greatest weapon is “I don’t know”, to be deployed at every possible opportunity."
Which of course is the only position that is in accord with quantum physics....
The interviewer wrote truly excellent questions and Martin's responses, as always, are honest, illuminating and humble. My prayer is that those who read this will be drawn to what he shares, and be able to "find the beauty in the ordinary" as we 'work together for good as we love God'.
Thank you for sharing this, Martin. I am incredibly blessed to have you in my inbox and carry your deep goodness in my heart.
Never heard of Geddes to my knowledge, but an astute cookie I must say. One line stood out, "How do people get away with appalling acts, yet those around don't grasp the horror"? In a similar vein, Omar Sharif once said, "How is it that one murder can be labeled so monstrous, while millions being slaughtered in war elicits nothing". In both, I am left speechless.
Good to hear from Geddes again. I loved his book, and then drifted away from his writing somehow. He and I (among many) share a cultural upbringing, and I wonder sometimes if that earlier experience of breaking free informs the ability to keep doing it in what look like differing circumstances (I.e., having "natural immunity" to peer pressure around politics, jabby-pokes, etc.).