seeds wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2025 4:44 am
To which I claim to be using "evidence and reasoning" based on the implications of quantum physics to support (argue for) the "conclusion" that the universe is the Mind of a higher (incorporeal) Consciousness.
Here is where I think we can link the ideas under examination back to what had been a focus on the praxis of BigMike. The point I would make is related to Richard Weaver and also Thomas Carlyle’s views.
In Weaver’s case his notion that we all have “a metaphysical dream of the world”.
And Carlyle’s:
But the thing a man does practically believe (and this is often enough without asserting it even to himself, much less to others); the thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for certain, concerning his vital relations to this mysterious Universe, and his duty and destiny there, that is in all cases the primary thing for him, and creatively determines all the rest. That is his religion; or, it may be, his mere scepticism and no-religion: the manner it is in which he feels himself to be spiritually related to the Unseen World or No-World; and I say, if you tell me what that is, you tell me to a very great extent what the man is, what the kind of things he will do is.
Now Atla (an occulted Master of the New Nondualism) has exclaimed that this forum has been infiltrated by the Nutjobs of Religious Belief. OK, very well. But what I notice is the degree to which BigMike who is emblematic of the intellectual period we are in, very definitely came here to present (as a mountebank with a whole set if •tricks•!) a “metaphysical dream”.
Really & truly!
It is
comparable to an immense religious-mythological invention. However, it grounds itself in those congeries of “facts” that Dubious — our own 1,500 years old Ancient of Days and All-Around Grumpasaurus — holds to with such ferocity.
One man clutches his Rosary and another his Hard Facts …
What is extraordinary about BigMike (I will recite the Story of his Advent to my grandchildren certainly!) is the degree and intensity of his convictions. Bordering on hysteria. (Not joking).
What I take this to mean, which I link with everything going on around us, is that •people seem to go nuts under the pressures exerted by the present• which excites their psyches in such notable and strange ways.
that the universe is the Mind of a higher (incorporeal) Consciousness.
I absolutely agree. But really you are not saying anything substantially different than, for example, IC who gets so much flak as PN’s resident Christian Wacko. The details of a •metaphysical dream• are relevant insofar as the theological principles that are defined by that •dream• can be enunciated. It is the quality of the theology that has relevancy.
And the value of the theologically defined principles can only be grasped on that intellectual level (intellectus) that René Guénon goes on about in his discourse.
Therefore, it all turns back to the intellect when it is defined as the core of the possibility of defining what Life and Existence
mean.
In the
intellect, therefore, resides the possibility and the potential to realize all that we may mean (must ultimately mean) when we refer to spirituality.
What is additionally curious about the PN space — it must be similar in all such spaces — is the degree to which Conventional Religious Models are rejected with scorn and even a sort of virulent violence …
… while simultaneously those who do so either cut their own branch, and that of others, or like BigMike cone rolling in with a Fantastic Alternative to a genuine existential conviction that, clearly, serves the function of a classical Metaphysical Dream.
Some stoned hippy comedians?!?
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