the course of the past half century since its publication, this prophetic statement has turned out to be true, as evolution has become a defining framework in which we are beginning to understand virtually everything - from biology and technology to the interior dimensions of reality like our psychology, cultural world-views, and even spirituality.
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the way down, and forms part of the intrinsic awareness and intrinsic creativity of each ontological being or holon. Whitehead’s “ultimate category” - namely, “the creative advance into novelty”—is part of the prehension of each and every being in existence, and the creative-part cannot be ripped from the being‑part without severe violence.
To postulate the most fundamental level of reality as merely ontology—being without knowing or consciousness or creativity—is basically a 1st-tier move that shatters the Wholeness of this and every real occasion.
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way down, and forms part of the intrinsic awareness and intrinsic creativity of each
ontological being or holon. Whitehead’s “ultimate category” - namely,
“the creative advance into novelty”—is part of the prehension of each and every being in
existence, and the creative-part cannot be ripped from the being‑part without severe violence.
To postulate the most fundamental level of reality as merely ontology—being without knowing
or consciousness or creativity—is basically a 1st-tier move that shatters the Wholeness of this
and every real occasion.
…
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How did our ancestors become truly human? Why does our brain work the way it does? Learn the mystery behind the birth of the human sciences, culture, communication, and art.…
the course of the past half century since its publication, this prophetic statement has turned out to be true, as evolution has become a defining framework in which we are beginning to understand virtually everything - from biology and technology to the interior dimensions of reality like our psychology, cultural world-views, and even spirituality.
…
way down, and forms part of the intrinsic awareness and intrinsic creativity of each
ontological being or holon. Whitehead’s “ultimate category” - namely,
“the creative advance into novelty”—is part of the prehension of each and every being in
existence, and the creative-part cannot be ripped from the being‑part without severe violence.
To postulate the most fundamental level of reality as merely ontology—being without knowing
or consciousness or creativity—is basically a 1st-tier move that shatters the Wholeness of this
and every real occasion.
…
e philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.
To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the revelations of science and spirituality in a way that no other theory can. But others, like Aurobindo before them, are beginning to reach beyond a theoretical discussion to wonder: What might human life and culture look like if we fully took to heart the reality of this view?
Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated from the narcissistic self-absorptions of postmodernity, what kind of new world could human beings aligned with the trajectory of a spiritually evolving cosmos actually create?
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e philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.
To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the revelations of science and spirituality in a way that no other theory can. But others, like Aurobindo before them, are beginning to reach beyond a theoretical discussion to wonder: What might human life and culture look like if we fully took to heart the reality of this view?
Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated from the narcissistic self-absorptions of postmodernity, what kind of new world could human beings aligned with the trajectory of a spiritually evolving cosmos actually create?
…
ation, this prophetic statement has turned out to be true, as evolution has become a defining framework in which we are beginning to understand virtually everything - from biology and technology to the interior dimensions of reality like our psychology, cultural world-views, and even spirituality.
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sensitivity - which Professor Cox has explained in the second episode of Wonders of LIFE - conjure up, in some "sense of place", an explanation as to why the various sages that passed the torch during the journey that was ZEN from India to Japan - truly understood that the NEVER changing amount of ENERGY of the universe came from NO THING and will eventually return to NO THING • and as the ZEN Master Huang Bo so succinctly proposed ... NO THING is BORN NO THING IS DESTROYED
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Added by Michael Grove at 12:21 on February 16, 2013