circles

[Guest guest]

The question about the origins of the universe, life and

consciousness is an open invitation for scientists and philosophers.

No one expects seriously to find an answer, which could be published

the next day on a scientifical journal. There is an epistemiological

circle, which begins and ends with mind or consciousness. We are the

physiscist by which an atom can contemplate itself. We are the

mirror by which a flower, finally, is able to rejoice in its

reflection. We are mirrors suspended in the sky reflecting infinity.

We create a world by ideas & concepts and it would be therefore

ridiculous to believe, that wewould be able to explain the world by

ideas and concepts. Nietzsche was somehow right. Zarathrustra had to

swallow the world in a single blow to gain freedom and peace. To

leave, to transcend the realm of concepts & ideas is the only way out

of the circle. The hardest inquire and examination in this endeavour

is, to put aside the notions of a " me " and a " mine " . But, even

before that happens, it is possible to smell a little the aura of

freedom. It is that odour, this unbelieveable fragrance we

appercieve in the upanishads, in the bhagavad gita, in the sutras,

the bible, in many other writings and in all the mystical scriptures

including nisargadatta and ramana. Music and art are expressions of

this wonder too but, at last everything, without exception, is a

reflection of this miracle. The only thing required to experience

that, is to to put ourselves a step aside, to let the mirror reflect

something else than ourselves.

 

In our occidental cultures science & philosophy had lost their

original and primary function. We are reaching the end of the

aristotelic era and going back to the roots, where philosphy and

science took their point of origin. Another epistemiological circle

are beginning to close itself but, we have learned very much in the

meantime. We have learned that nothing excludes nothing but in our

minds, as long as they are deluded and stubborn. Both experimental,

scientifical efforts as well as contemplative attitudes don't

exclude one each other. Dogmatism or bossiness have neither

concerning science nor in transcendental matters a justification.

Actually everything is easy to understand, if we hang for a while

our occidental graven image, fetish and deity, rationalism, on the

wall of the museum, where it belongs.

 

There is a wind of great humbleness and common sense blowing through

the archives and files of science, philosophy and religion, despite

or precisely on account of the unbelieveable discoveries of the last

decades. There is actually nothing we need to be afraid of, there is

nothing to fear but our human stupidity, bias and prepossession. We

are actually living in an incredibly interesting time, an axial-time

again, in my opinion.

 

 

Enjoy it!

 

 

best wishes

sk