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There is Neither Past Nor Future: The Tao is Now
0September 20, 2013
by ted lumley
in APN
the banished djinn
Having come to the conclusion that there is neither past nor future, it seems right to me to share this finding, and an explanation of it, with others, who I am guessing, are not likely to be offended by it. (more…)
‘Inclusionality’ Update: June 14, 2013
0June 14, 2013
by ted lumley
in APN
Where opposites find union
This following is an update on research into what I previously have called ‘inclusionality’ and ‘complex community dynamics’, our ‘take’ or pyscho-physical experiencing of the world understood as a world of ‘flow’, also known as ‘the Tao that cannot be named’ [is beyond language-based description] also known as ‘Brahman’, ‘Logos’. This update is a review of the different ways that different people [or the same people in different situations] are currently interpreting it. (more…)
The World Dynamic: – both RST and MCD vs either RST or MCD?
0March 1, 2013
by ted lumley
in APN
Peaks from 'positive' or 'negative causality'?
(Can be read in conjunction with ‘How Science is Displacing Spirituality’)
RST = Relational-Spatial Transformation
MCD= Material-Causal-Dynamics
Mach, Nietzsche, Bohm, Schroedinger contended that the world is a continually transforming relational spatial Plenum, … ‘the All’, and that material bodies are ‘schaumkommen’ (‘appearances’). Berkeley had argued the same, and had pointed out errors in the foundations of Newton’s ‘Principles of Natural Philosophy’, which have become part of our everyday scientific viewing of ‘how the world works’.
This is a brief summary of the ‘errors’ in the foundations of Newtonian scientific constructions of understanding, … ‘errors’ which force the abandonment of the RST view and the single-minded opting for the MCD view. (more…)
A Story of Discovery: How Science is Displacing Spirituality
0February 26, 2013
by ted lumley
in APN
Berkeley: How Science Is Displacing Spirituality
This is one of those stories like Copernicus told; a simple suggestion as to how we are missing something that is with us everyday; another way of seeing the same things we are seeing; another way that ‘makes more sense’ than our current established way of seeing it.
I would call this story; ‘How spirituality is displaced by science’, and increasingly so, as scientific thinking infuses ever deeper into the fabric of everday life. (more…)
What is going wrong with [Western] society?
0January 25, 2013
by ted lumley
in APN
the body sources a mind that defines the body
‘Nutshell’ Introduction to ‘What is going wrong with [Western] society’?
Nutshell: – Psychologists [the discipline] don’t understand physics to the point of being able to challenge it and physicists [the discipline] don’t understand psychology to the point of being able to challenge it, so each domain settles for treating the other domain as a ‘separate’ domain. But the point of departure for physicists is ‘psychology’ (sensation) and the point of departure for psychologists is ‘physics’ (physiology). Mach argues for the psychophysical (one domain). If Mach is right, and I have at least 20 years of investigative work that, for me, point to him being right, then space is ‘relational’ and there are no ‘things-in-themselves’ [they are relational sensa], so the ‘mind’ and ‘body’ do not split into two. But because we treat them as if they were split and we treat things as ‘things-in-themselves’ rather than relational nexa or ‘sensa’ [centres of perception/experience], our modern western society mistakenly [mis]takes for ‘reality’, an intellectual scientific concept based [linguistic idealization based] world of ‘things-in-themselves’ and ‘what things do’. What remains hidden beneath it is the world of sensation, the basic world of sensory experience, which we have ‘paved over’ with purified scientific concepts. Society’s ‘disconnect’ is that we are using our intellect to engage with this non-real world of purified scientific concepts, which is not the world of our sensory experience. This is a major source of ‘incoherence’ in our societal dynamic. Currently, we are ‘stuck’ and prevented from communally discovering [acknowledging] ‘our disconnect’ because of our continuing treatment of the realm of the psychological and the realm of the physical as two different realms, rather than as one psychophysical phenomenal realm. (more…)
Science, Language and Individuation
0January 18, 2013
by ted lumley
in APN
coincidentia oppositorum
The one is made up of all things, and all things issue from the one. -Heraclitus
καὶ ἐκ πάντων ἓν καὶ ἐξ ἑνὸς πάντα
The problem of the ‘one and the many’ has been around since the earliest records of humans reflecting on their ‘human condition’. The strife that goes on within us fuels our quest to reconcile the strife within us. Every ‘coincidentia oppositorum’; one and many, love and hate, evil and goodness, creative-urge and destructive-urge, the outer and the inner, objectivity and subjectivity, … cry out for some, … ‘mediation?’ (more…)
SCARP – Society of Confused Attributions, Rewards and Punishments
0December 13, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
We ARE the SCARP that we are toppling down.
The warrior spirit in each of us that seeks to defend the vulnerable deserves respect, but I am not so certain of career militarists. Continuation of strife is continuation of their employment and status. Churchill’s hard military mind supported the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles that ended the 1914-18 WWI; a ‘Carthaginian peace’ that would ‘bully’ and abuse a new generation of innocents, and so obviously infuse them with anger and hunger for vengeance that cartoons in the newpapers of the time were predicting another war when German newborns reached that age of majority; 1918 + 21 = 1939. (more…)
Causality, Culpability and Connectedness
0December 3, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
causality, culpability and connectedness
Author’s Prologue: This essay speaks to general dysfunction in the world arising from the values and beliefs of a now globally dominant Western civilization. A science-fostered aberrant belief in the ‘here and now’, aka ‘being’, as the ‘source’ of dynamical behaviour lies at the heart of this dysfunction. But, as scientist-philosophers such as Ernst Mach and Erwin Schrödinger have shared, our Atman [here-and-now ‘self’] is our Brahman [our everywhere-and-always ‘self’]. (more…)
The Western CULT[ivating] of BELIEF that ‘TIME IS REAL’
0November 22, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
The slow times of the Dalit drivers
Yes, I AM asserting that ‘it makes sense’ to describe Western civilization as a CULT whose social behaviours are distinguished by its members having a ‘core belief’ that ‘time’ is something ‘real’.
No, this is not an esoteric argument and if you bear with me for just a moment, you can see clearly how it relates to that ‘something different’ about the now-globally-dominant Western civilization as compared with, for example, aboriginal cultures.
And yes, I do believe that this ‘issue’ is relevant to almost everything we see happening on daily news broadcasts and in our everyday lives and thus that we should be bringing it into our discussions on ‘the issues of our times’, and if we do not, we will be unable to understand these issues ‘in depth’.
How does this ‘belief in time’ reduce to some common terms that can give anyone of us ‘traction’ to talk about it?
An ‘easy entrée’ is to compare Western justice with aboriginal justice [restorative justice], as follows; [see also this critique of the physics community as sampled in Morgan Freeman’s narrated Through the Wormhole production: Is Time Real?’] (more…)
From ‘Design and Behaviour’ to ‘Intelligent Design and Intelligent Behaviour’ to…?
0October 20, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
Immanent Impetus -Thomas deJong 'Suddenly'
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The dam is about to break [my opinion] that will lead to a radical transformation [reformation?] of Western culture; i.e. it won’t be ‘Western culture’ as we have known it any more. (more…)
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