@ThinkingFaith Wonderful. In the light of a comedic paradox whereby 'both sides look at the same data, give the same odds, draw the same conclusions, then go in completely different directions', I wonder also if the most comprehensible part about the universe is that it cannot be comprehended.
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Copy of tweet thread here: And a tweet here: And science, too. "Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?" - Robert Pirsig and I wonder if perhaps the tension is ultimately illusory, originating not in dichotomous distinctions of knowing, as in the shared, majoritarian presumption that reality itself is essentially knowable. The fight to fight is lost when Mystery does the work of reconciliation for us.
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Copy of tweet: 2/ At the point where mature science and mature religion reconcile, the old idea of Reality as a concept to be grasped is discarded, like worn out luggage. What does it mean to us, when the Great Mystery assumes its proper place at the heart of our understanding and world? Terence McKenna: "The great intellectual and emotional... Mystery does not refer to a meaning we don't understand. It is what is too full and deep with meaning for minds as limited as ours to grasp. Accept that we exist, ultimately, in a cloud of unknowing, beyond intellectual or psychological versions of truth and security. Give up having to know or be certain. Live into the direction and meaningfulness of a Oneness too immense to be held. Let go to a personal and planetary genius and destiny transcending the limits of our individualities. Surrender to a deeper communion with life itself, opening to us as a pathway into greater mystery.
@RasooolAkbari @jbralston On holistic experience, essentially Thomistic 'intuition of being', Richard Rohr: "Ideas are not a problem, but a true inner experience is something else: “full-access knowing”—prerational, nonrational, rational, and transrational all at once. [It] refuses to be reductionistic.”
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