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In the summer of 1982, after moving away from an absurdist & nihilist
world view, this work set off as a series of lucid
daydreams. Participating in the
imaginal world of this open, luminous space-of-all-possibilities is the
visionary root of creativity. Not needing to travel far to be refreshed.
Divorced from the visionary, philosophy and science are
barren. Behind the visible, dark matter lurks.
When space is closed and stuffed up by useless & dogmatic ideas, the open air of a total change of view is welcomed, for hardly
available. To remain free
one must, at daybreak, become a beginner, and this again & again. Thus
ongoingly reborn, the free thinker cannot be
subjected to dogma, nor to blind, unjustified belief. Authorities, reason
nor the senses are to be trusted. Although the Sun seems to rise & set,
it does not. Although the disk of the Hunter's Moon may seem larger, it is not. Reason is valid & unmistaken, but its monsters are not.
The spectre of independent existence led both Platonists & Peripatetics
to identify objects and not the space between them. This revelation
here contradicts that revelation there. There is no end to it, except
ad hoc. Beginning anew is opening up, witnessing the intervals,
not the objects.
Accept your own experience, solicit your own thinking and elicit your own
judgment. If doing so your world becomes a hell, then at least it is
your own. So will be your effort to get out of it. And getting out of it
You will, for nothing permanent can be found.
Thinking itself is not safe. Wrong thinking leads to wrong actions and
their effects. Logical thinking, although valid, may be mistaken.
Scientific thinking is relative & fallible. Personal thinking is always
biased. Collective thinking is always reductive. A majority can also err. Although most people
think sensate & mental objects exist as independent substances,
logic
shows this cannot be the case. It is the Earth's spin which causes the
hours, but nobody feels it turn. Neither do we regularly contemplate the
Moon, the Sun, the Solar system, the Milky Way with its 100 billion
stars or the universe with its 100 billion galaxies. Like ants, we crawl
in the dust.
To ever seek wisdom, protecting the validity of convention while
proclaiming its mistake, is difficult. One tends to succumb to social pressure and
acquiesce. At the turn of Saturn, things "get serious" and with the
appearance of the first white hairs, worldly concerns are needed to pale
bitter death. At this juncture, total crisis is invoked ! Commoners move near
the precipice. The wise live their lives on the edge.
Although an absolute object must be thought and can be found, this "return
of God" is to be monitored. Even if the theist "God" would exist as
His revelations affirm, history shows how unfit humans are to satisfy Him. Even a non-existing
"God" poses a problem, for only "God" can handle "God" and the human is
caught in-between. The absolute is not a substance to be reified in terms
of a
brontosaurus or the idea of a brontosaurus. In theist logic, it cannot be
a super-object, nor a super-subject.
A peaceful mind and
a good heart bind all religions. As there is no
coercion in religion, political issues and spiritual matters are to be
kept strictly divided and so cannot be united in one person or in one office. To do so brings
harm to the cause of humanity : planetary participationism, an
integrated, globalized & caring democracy of nations.
Education should be at the heart of any civilization. The young are the
true capital of any nation. To teach them how to stand on their own two
feet with an open
mind and a compassionate heart, is the best
strategy to generate peace & happiness for all sentient beings. A just &
caring world order is the intent.
The Renaissance is not a past event, but a recurring state of
mind induced by invoking its spirit. The masters of Renaissance art,
philosophy & science are examples of its power & creativity, bringing
renewal, liberation & enlightenment.
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