WHAT THIS IS ABOUT:       (i.e. ‘A Concise Account of how Western Culture Breeds Psychosis‘)

The world dynamic is characterized by many tensions arising from political, religious and philosophical differences.  This note is to introduce a philosophical discussion entitled; “A concise account of how Western culture breeds psychosis”

The viewpoint aligns with modern physics and is thus very different from the viewpoint that evidently dominates in shaping current Western culture social dynamics.  For example this viewpoint conforms with the understanding of reality found in indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta.  The language and grammar stimulated source of this difference in the understanding of reality is explored in the article.

The following is a brief introduction/overview of the article;

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According to modern physics, reality is a dynamic relational field (‘the Tao’), a transforming relational continuum including everything, ourselves included.  This field may be thought of in terms of ‘resonances within resonances’ and we, ourselves, may think of ourselves as resonance within ‘the Resonance’ (the Tao).

Reality, as thus understood, is in continual flux and is ‘ineffable’ i.e.

“The Tao that can be told is not the true Tao” – Lao Tzu

“Of that which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence”.  – Wittgenstein

This ‘reality’ is ineffable; i.e. it is relational transformation wherein ‘everything is in continuing flux’ (Heraclitus).  Because language makes use of explicit terms (‘names’) that signify things-in-themselves with persisting existence (forms that are NOT in flux, or ‘structures’ rather than ‘processes’), such linguistic utterances, being explicit, cannot directly refer to ‘reality’.  Words signifying ‘things-in-themselves’ (abstractions in a world of flow) can only serve as expedients which can, with the help of grammar’, indirectly allude to ‘flow’ and thus to the basic reality as understood in modern physics.

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