An inclusional worldview
Archive for May, 2015
Where Are We Coming From?
0May 30, 2015
by ted lumley
in APN
“What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Particles are just schaumkommen (appearances).” – Erwin Schroedinger
“Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.” — David Bohm
“Fields of force are the primary reality, and ‘matter’ a secondary or derived phenomenon” —Michael Faraday
I can’t escape from this persisting imperative that is living inside me, or am I living inside of it, … to try to ‘remind’ others of an important, invisible but intuitable ‘reality’ beyond the intellectual constructs of language, which, while it can’t be articulated, is the actual physical reality of our natural experience. I know that sounds crazy, and it seems crazy, but it is not letting me off the hook, just because it seems crazy. (more…)
Duelling Realities
0May 3, 2015
by ted lumley
in APN
The life we are reaching out to grasp is the we who are reaching out to grasp it. –R. D. Laing
click here to skip to Part II, ‘Non-Duelling Realities’
Introduction:
It has been suggested by Moonhawk (MIT linguist) and others, that “the entire Western worldview — logic, reason, science, philosophy, categories — the entire ‘civilization’ enterprise of which academia is a part” is a scam, in the sense that it is built on the error warned of by Ernst Mach, of “regarding the intellectual machinery, employed in the representation of the world on the stage of thought, as the basis of the real world [of our natural experience]”, … that arises from our noun-and-verb architecture of language. (more…)
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