RT @nick_routledge: @HootenWilson What a lovely prompt. At the time (an agnostic, anti-religious zealot) I couldn't see it, but it was secular science that originally lit the flame of numinosity in me. As such, perhaps my intellectual life first 'awakened' reading Hofstadter on Godel and the enigma of paradox.
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Photo of Douglas Hofstadter's book, 'Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'
@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM Indeed, the identical heresy of the scientific method or, as Thomas Berry encapsulates it, the "downward reductionism of the mechanists and the upward reductionism of the spiritualists.” No wonder the call for a New Reformation. A New Reconcilation, then? ?s=20&t=jygN9r6anfFtNTRziHKfyA
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Copy of quote tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ But what if lived experience of the One Life isn’t actually a form of distance-learning? What if the minute particulars of life represent the immediate, transcendent ground of the overarching veracity of a vast, mostly unseen, singular, energy event? Quote Tweet Nick Routledge · ...reveals the universe not to be a collection of objects but, as #PaulDavies puts it, "an inseparable web of complicated energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently of the entirety; and included in the entirety is the observer." - Quantitative Romanticism 12:59 PM · Jun 16, 2021