Tapes of Belief and Tapes of Doubt...the finale

[Guest guest]

SCIENTIFIC METHODOLOGY HAS BEEN BOTH A NECESSARY STAGE in the human

development and a supremely valuable tool. It is only when it is

mistaken for the truth, the only way of looking at reality or the

basis for moral or spiritual values, that we manage to get ourselves

snarled up. It is only one method of inquiry. It is a system to know

about existence. It cannot know existence. If a person adopts any

permanent attitude of a separate and analytical observer then he acts

in direct opposition to the prime evolutionary conditions of being

human.

Collectively we seem in a chronic mood of doubt and repeated

questioning. The questions never end. At the other end of the

spectrum are the religious beliefs where only " answers " are given.

These older popular religions, formulated in ages of childlike

dependence, encounter the adolescent separatist abstractions of

modern scientific materialism. The old religions of faith with their

ready made answers, mostly created thousands of years ago, cannot

withstand the scrutiny of our age of doubt. But our culture has

somehow lost out on the deal and finds itself alone and bewildered

sitting on a pile of plastic trivia.

All the programmers we have encountered so far, whether they sell

tapes of belief or tapes of doubt, are still blind — they don't know.

As the sun rises on their blindfolded eyes one of them talks of the

light of heaven and another talks of degrees centigrade.

Yet neither can see the beauty of the sun in the morning mists, and

tragically, by the time they have finished with the child, he can't

either.

We can now turn from this dark portrait of our age and begin to

explore how it might have been and how it can be. We enter a very

different world in Part II as we follow how man can mature and step

beyond a childhood dependency and an adolescent alienation into an

entirely new synthesis. We shall see how an Adam transformed by being

sent out from Eden can reclaim Paradise and how the prodigal son can

return after traveling far from his home.

 

Unknown Man.......Yatri

 

posted .....bob