I'm glad you're here defending reason and logic, Jim. It's been a very friendly debate I've been having with Guy Duperrault in his post The Good of Evil and the Evil of Good, that I link in this one: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/yuval-bibi-and-maajid. I'm for both the spiritual and the logical as two sides of the brain that need to always be flipping the revelations back and forth.
Hi Tereza. You're one of those on the vanguard, so thanks for that.
My own position on right-brain/left brain is that intuition is foundational. We first have to see, we have to touch our own being, and from this seeing and understanding we can then reason more clearly about things that matter to us.
Behind the light of reason lies the light of being, and I suppose this gets into religious discourse but I'd rather not go there since I see the light of our being as simply a zen-like intuition available to all, and accessible once we begin trying to understand things for ourselves instead of listening only to what we're told to think.
Like Krishnamurti said in a book I read long ago: it's about freedom from the known.
Goes back to Socrates being the wisest because he was the only one who was aware that he knew nothing for certain.
Everyone else that knew the facts were ignorant since, when questioned, they got their “facts” from someone else who got them from someone else etc.
So many people that have never used even a rudimentary microscope have expounded relentlessly about biological facts to me in a grocery checkout line or a bookstore.
They repeat “facts” that they were taught with no personal experience or knowledge.
I'm glad you're here defending reason and logic, Jim. It's been a very friendly debate I've been having with Guy Duperrault in his post The Good of Evil and the Evil of Good, that I link in this one: https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/yuval-bibi-and-maajid. I'm for both the spiritual and the logical as two sides of the brain that need to always be flipping the revelations back and forth.
Hi Tereza. You're one of those on the vanguard, so thanks for that.
My own position on right-brain/left brain is that intuition is foundational. We first have to see, we have to touch our own being, and from this seeing and understanding we can then reason more clearly about things that matter to us.
Behind the light of reason lies the light of being, and I suppose this gets into religious discourse but I'd rather not go there since I see the light of our being as simply a zen-like intuition available to all, and accessible once we begin trying to understand things for ourselves instead of listening only to what we're told to think.
Like Krishnamurti said in a book I read long ago: it's about freedom from the known.
Goes back to Socrates being the wisest because he was the only one who was aware that he knew nothing for certain.
Everyone else that knew the facts were ignorant since, when questioned, they got their “facts” from someone else who got them from someone else etc.
So many people that have never used even a rudimentary microscope have expounded relentlessly about biological facts to me in a grocery checkout line or a bookstore.
They repeat “facts” that they were taught with no personal experience or knowledge.