Nick Routledge@nick_routledge
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@nils_gilman The distinction between science and scientism, crucial here. What makes a religion, as Emile Durkheim clarified, is the designation of a sacred dimension which is not to be touched, investigated or interfered with. Scientism, as religion, a comprehensive cult.

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Quoted by@SophiaCycles Undergeneralization, too? T.S. Eliot, “Humankind cannot bear very much reality...the heavy burden of the growing soul." Bohm, an exemplary, secular personification of the revealing function of the metaphysical intellect, noted a reality as large as the limits of our experience.