Issue #42 ~ Some hundred and fifty years ago a great British biologist, Thomas Henry Huxley, compared life to a game of chess in his essay on "Liberal Education”. He invited us to imagine that our survival and well-being depended on winning or losing at a game of chess.
No. Science is not a spiritual approach but its opposite, the discourse of processes and not of the spirit. Think for a moment where your idea is leading you, Vlatko. Science is a consensus. If the minds that process data always do so scientifically, they will all arrive at the same conclusions. Complete spiritual uniformity. End of human diversity. Humanity will be an entirely predictable emanation of processes, without real control over them since control consists precisely in detaching oneself from them. It is when it is not scientific that the mind elevates science. It is essential to keep this contradiction, which I call the double look.
Thanks so much for emphasizing heart and mind (Joseph Campbell's popular admonition to follow your heart seems similar to your point). If you are sincerely open to a deeper view of the relationship of heart and mind, please consider my communication/counseling skills books "Cool Mind, Warm Heart: How to Communicate with Body, Mind, Heart and Soul" and "Vedic Principles of Therapy" that relate heart and mind to love and duty (heart guides mind and mind directs action, and the subtler 'love of duty"). This deeper integration is profoundly explained in the counseling dialogue in the Bhagavad-Gita, in which Arjuna is directed by Lord Krishna to do his duty -- most profoundly articulated in "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi On the Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, Chapters 1-6" (all on Amazon Books). It also has direct significance for wave-particle duality in quantum theory and for individual/universal in consciousness studies. Thanks for considering this. (Bob) RW Boyer
No. Science is not a spiritual approach but its opposite, the discourse of processes and not of the spirit. Think for a moment where your idea is leading you, Vlatko. Science is a consensus. If the minds that process data always do so scientifically, they will all arrive at the same conclusions. Complete spiritual uniformity. End of human diversity. Humanity will be an entirely predictable emanation of processes, without real control over them since control consists precisely in detaching oneself from them. It is when it is not scientific that the mind elevates science. It is essential to keep this contradiction, which I call the double look.
Thanks so much for emphasizing heart and mind (Joseph Campbell's popular admonition to follow your heart seems similar to your point). If you are sincerely open to a deeper view of the relationship of heart and mind, please consider my communication/counseling skills books "Cool Mind, Warm Heart: How to Communicate with Body, Mind, Heart and Soul" and "Vedic Principles of Therapy" that relate heart and mind to love and duty (heart guides mind and mind directs action, and the subtler 'love of duty"). This deeper integration is profoundly explained in the counseling dialogue in the Bhagavad-Gita, in which Arjuna is directed by Lord Krishna to do his duty -- most profoundly articulated in "Maharishi Mahesh Yogi On the Bhagavad-Gita: A New Translation and Commentary, Chapters 1-6" (all on Amazon Books). It also has direct significance for wave-particle duality in quantum theory and for individual/universal in consciousness studies. Thanks for considering this. (Bob) RW Boyer
Very nice.