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[Futurework] Re: [Futurework] Re: [Futurework] "Spiritualität macht
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Ed wrote:
>
>
> I don't know what a "linear
thinker" is.
The following are quotes from a book
entitled
*The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos* by Brian
Swimme
Swimme is a mathematical cosmologist. I would
be interested to know how members of this list would be able to explain
the following phenomena within the context of causality and
Newtonian physics which is the base of materialistic, reductionist
thinking and depends on linear thinking for its logic.
p.88
"To be in the universe is to be at its
center"
He discusses the fact that every place in the
universe is an origin point for the universe. pp
87,88,89
pp 92,93
He talks about what would happen if
every conceivable particle of every kind is removed from a
space
"Even when there are no atoms, and no
elementary particles, and no protons, and no photons, suddenly
elementary particles will emerge.. The
particles simply foam into existence."
p.93 He comments on the fact that
they do not come from anywhere
"These elementary particles crop up out of the
vacuum itself-that is the simple and awesome discovery"
The title of Ch. 13 in this book is "The
All-Nourishing Abyss" which is all there is, i.e., there is no place
outside of this 'all-nourishing abyss'.
p.101 Everywhere, "even in the gaps
between the synapses of the neurons in the brain, there occurs an
incessant foaming, a flashing flame, a shining-forth-from and a
dissolving-back-into. The importance of the cosmological tradition is
its power to awaken those deep convictions necessary for
wisdom."
p.104
"From our own fresh
empirical-mathematical-observational contemplation of the univers we
have identified a nonmaterial realm suffusing not only the great
macrocosm of the universe but suffusing just as thoroughly the microcosm
of the human and of every being of the Earth and universe. That which
gave birth to the universe is giving birth at this moment as well.
Although our understnding is very young, and thus inadequate in many
ways, what we have discovered is already profoundly
stirring."
"Each child is situated in that very place and
is rooted in that very power that brought forth all the matter and
energy of the universe."
I look forward to your responses.
Selma