But is the psyche "comfortable in its own skin" if their are holes in the fabric. Do we to let out , leak out, draw out that which is rusty, old, putrid? Remember yeats,
Nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.
Wow...great point Sid. Never were a set of eyes set in one so young before or again like Yeats. I was thinking of all the alchemical imagery of keeping the process in the sealed beaker...it's a funny goal they had in the end, to extract the gold from the darkness only to trap it in the bottle. It seems to me that our whole scientific edifice, the explorations in and out, is built on that basic desire. Unlock and control.
Duff
· 11 months ago
Indeed--soul is not trapped in the flesh of the individual. Our individual suffering is not separate from our collective quest for infinite knowledge (science) and control (technology).
Are you familiar with Charles Eisenstein? I've been reading his relatively new book The Ascent of Humanity that covers this in great detail, how the history of humanity and indeed life is a story of increasing separation, and how he is optimistic that we must return inevitably to an age of reunion. http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/
Richard Reeve
· 11 months ago
Hey Duff, Thank you for this interesting contribution. You are turning me onto this book and I look forward to seeing the vision it draws.
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Nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.
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I was thinking of all the alchemical imagery of keeping the process in the sealed beaker...it's a funny goal they had in the end, to extract the gold from the darkness only to trap it in the bottle. It seems to me that our whole scientific edifice, the explorations in and out, is built on that basic desire. Unlock and control.
Are you familiar with Charles Eisenstein? I've been reading his relatively new book The Ascent of Humanity that covers this in great detail, how the history of humanity and indeed life is a story of increasing separation, and how he is optimistic that we must return inevitably to an age of reunion. http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/
Thank you for this interesting contribution. You are turning me onto this book and I look forward to seeing the vision it draws.