Session 2 - two impossible ideas
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TL;DR (Summary)
The universal Golden Rule
In recent years there’s been quite a deal of turmoil and conflict in the world. In this and other posts I present some ideas that might help some to gain more sense of the world, and of recent events.
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The Universe Is Not Locally Real
An excellent article, in my opinion, explaining some of the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-r...
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The underlying cause of woke, cancel culture, and the need for mavericks and matrons.
Imagine that you are the most creative, the most talented, the strongest, the bravest, or the most compassionate person among those you know, or know of.
Perhaps you’ve gained a medal at a recent Olympic Games, after years, or decades of training and discipline. Your successes, your resolve, your discipline in the face of adversity, have instilled in you a can-do attitude that empowers you, enabling you to push through difficulties, come what may.
Steam-powered, or quantum-powered philosophy?
I recently attended a philosophy class focused on the ancient Greek philosophers, such as Plato, and others.
I was surprised by the relatively shallow depth of the ideas discussed, when viewed through a quantum holodynamic perspective.
I came to the conclusion, rightly or wrongly, that unless the philosopher is post-quantum, they're not really going to add much insight into life.
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More great stuff
Continuing on from 'Consider some stuff', we can inquire further about the nature of stuff.
Since it's infinitely inclusive, my choices (and everyone else's) necessarily are 'made of' this one-stuff, whatever it is.
As well as the brain matter that facilitates (filters and frames the range of) choices.
Once again, one-stuff can't be excluded from all that occurs, otherwise it wouldn't be one-stuff that is the ground of all.
Men are particles, women are waves
Update (August, 2016) - see latest regarding the dynamics of gender
When writing Be and Become during the latter half of the 90's, the various revisions of the manuscript1 included chapter (Nine) titled as "Men are particles, women are waves".
The immense importance of understanding 'masculine' and 'feminine'
By coincidence I've only recently (namely, this morning) come across a 1991 paper by Prof. Robert Jahn of Princeton's famous1 PEAR laboratory.
Jahn's paper is quite extraordinary, at least for me, for it covers many of the basic concepts that I wrote about in my book Be and Become.2
One of the central points of Jahn's paper is that not understanding the complementarity of 'masculine' and 'feminine' fuels "immensely destructive" behaviours and results, both personally and socially. From Jahn's paper:
When posed in polar opposition, whether within a single personality, or in the context of the ubiquitous interactions between the male and the female sexes, the failures of this interface are legion, legendary, and immensely destructive, both personally and socially. Yet, when deployed in constructive complementarity, the masculine/feminine integration within the individual can enable the highest creativity and personal satisfaction, and in the male/female partnership can generate some of the highest accomplishments, profoundest insights, and most beautiful resonances of human existence. In this form, it is probably the species' most powerful resource for spiritual as well as physical survival and evolution.
Why I concur with Jahn is that the deeper nature of what 'feminine' and 'masculine' actually mean is not widely understood or appreciated.
- 1. or infamous, according to skeptics and assorted naysayers. See my article on sceptics and their brethren
- 2. I used to think that I had intuited new, highly original insights into the deep frameworks of life, but Jahn has demonstrated he largely got there first! I suppose my contribution is the comprehensiveness of my work, going well beyond that of Jahn's paper. Still, I freely give recognition when it is appropriate and deserved.
