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posted July 11, 2009 at 7:03 pm
Wonderful thoughts. I’ve just completed a science-adventure novel that explores many of these same issues surrounding the interface between science and spirituality. Interestingly, there’s a scene in the book that’s similar to the above video, exploring the transcendent sense of awe and wonder evoked when viewing underwater creatures.
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posted July 11, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Teilhard de Chardin is correct in his statement, and it requires a certain humility to explore the unknown spaces, and to refuse to fill in the gaps out of a need for a consistent and uniform narrative. Sometimes it is best to openly observe, to take in the experience and to have faith without an explicitly defined form which is believed. To not create idols is of paramount importance, both in science and religion. An open, analytical and unbiased mind with a childlike spirit of wonder allows the universe and what lies hidden in its deeper recesses to speak itself. A closed and arrogant mind merely creates a form to relate to out of its own hopes and fears. This is not useful, but it is very common.
posted July 30, 2009 at 3:59 am
If it is the life of the mind that determines human reality, this is truly the SAME life that Chardin speaks of. But the life of the mind, divided as it is, will always present the counter view to any proposal, any postulation. These two always have the same value as far as the intellect goes and create stalemate or eternal argument, never reaching resolution. It is only when the heart intervenes
in the intellectual process that a resolution is reached – for good or for evil, but a concluding, and final, resolution nevertheless.
That omnipotent metaphor of the Immortals floating above the island of Laputa will forever remind us that only a smack from the bladder of reality will break the thrall we are in with our theories. It is the fallen man who knows where he has fallen from, and what is necessary to return to that state. There is no such paradise
that has not, at least, the memory of the fall. And it is only the heart, purified, that will get us into heaven. We are as much in need of heaven, as a plant has need of earth. Ultimately, we must live in the spirit – everything else perishes.