Thanks, Dr. Stephen. His other blog, on "Atheism and Evidence," is also worthwhile. A metaphor: microscopy and telescopy enhance Kantian 5-sensibility, inner...
A metaphor: microscopy and telescopy enhance Kantian 5-sensibility, inner sense is helped with such enhancement awe of Natural law, yet innocence (inner sense)...
... Hi, Stephen. When the Truth is found to be Light...all the Joy within "you" elides...iff'n Eve-iling's "Paradise regained is also relost"--per redux "as...
The following is my Amazon review of Charles T. Tart`s "The End of Materialism." http://www.amazon.com/review/RJ331J5AUSVKM/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm Tart believes...
Even in the cartoon the tension that remains is self-evident (see last caption). The source of this tension will help explain the question: why we are here?...
Thanks, Dr. Stephen. A late-night post.... Would note that the black and white psychologism of father-authoritarian-distant and mother-warm-close seems to...
It would have been a more competent essay, if the essayist had framed the notion of perversioning of the Father as evincing the RH/Christendom, and in addition...
The temptation has been to fall back on the feminine aspect, and go with the flow and accept all of creation without judgment. In this mode, self-criticism is...
Hi Stephen. One "strain" (double entendre in-tensioned) of human awareness which gives an especially valuable historical perspective on Oneness and its...
The promise of democratic liberalism is freedom: a freedom to believe God, or a freedom to not believe; freedom to find employment in a workers paradise;...
Would note in the spirit of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" that the People's Republic of China has for 60+ years continued to promote self-criticism, aka...
j recommends the following story from PhysOrg.com: Scientists announce top 10 new species http://www.physorg.com/news162213171.html j's comment: . ... ...
The overbearing oppression (generated by simple greed) is plainly felt, and a breakout to freedom is sought. Liberalism is said to be the path to collective...
Hi, Dr. Stephen; kindly allow the following four-point general interpolation: 1. If one is in spacetime, one is presented with a series of lookings, a kind of...
? Jim: 1. If one is in spacetime, one is presented with a series of lookings, a kind of movie. This is "nowness." If one is in spacetime, one is typically in...
Thanks, Dr. Stephen; would note that no "tension" is "implied" when and if the "community" is the Community of the Holy Spirit, and the "individual" is the...
Thanks, Dr. Stephen; would note that no "tension" is "implied" when and if the "community" is the Community of the Holy Spirit, and the "individual" is the...
Yes, am believing what was recently expressed to Damir vis a vis "de-conceptualization" as more widely, profoundly, and accurately expressed in Buddhist...
One can also think of a lion (emotion) and a lion tamer (reason). The lion must be tamed, otherwise a wild animal will be unable to do circus feats. The brave...
http://www.spinninglobe.net/cowlady.htm Temple Grandin says: Music and rhythm may help open some doors to emotion. Recently I played a tape of Gregorian...
For some years, Dr. Stefan Koelsch at Max Planck Institute for Human Cognition and Brain Sciences in Leipzig has been using PET and other scans to track flow...
Dear Stephen, Music & rhythm propel our thoughts also; not only emotions. (Both are actually the sides of the same coin.) Our language is rhythmic in nature;...