Despite all his dislike of the New Age Movement, the two components his ideology I consider valuable and worth commended. I am pleased that AT using its popularizing potential, contributes to their spread. My point here about antydualistyczny aspect of monistic philosophy and affirmative, respectful relationship and fascination with the myths.
Monism NA is the philosophy by which everything that exists is an emanation of one of the basic existence: God, the Absolute, the matter (it can be treated differently.) Spirit and matter are just different ways of manifestation of existence, are its "properties". Monism is so fundamentally antithetical dualism (and therefore my definition to exclude from the phenomenon of all varieties of Gnosticism). Matter, as an emanation (manifestation) of God is good. Nature is good, is "holy".
An important consequence of that interpretation is precisely the rejection of monism and dualism, and so the idea that horrible (in my opinion) weighed on the whole European tradition of philosophical and theological. View, the obvious consequence was desacralization nature, acceptance of the concept of nature-machine, and consequently contribute to the birth of the concept of man-machine and atheistic materialism. It is easy to trace the development of European thought, which led from the dualistic theology of Descartes and Newton to Pierre-Simon Laplace and La Mettriemu, and then also by Darwin to Dawkinsowi.
dualism, however, exhausted. Destroyed it the same currents of thought which, to some extent, were the least consequence. The development of science and physicalism subsequent forced us to look at psychic phenomena (or spiritual), as a natural (though unexplained, and perhaps even niewyjaśnialnych) features of matter, with which we are weaving. Forced to recognize that every physical phenomenon has its source in another physical phenomenon, removing the non-existence is the supernatural. Illuminated physicalism duality, opposing matter spirit, or even the information was simply a logical error. It became clear that the only way there are information states of physical objects. The only means of reading or writing - the physical processes. Finally, the only way the existence of psychic phenomena is their background material (the brain, or - perhaps - another material object.) In addition, the laws of nature, no matter which do not hold any meaning, simply can not exist. Because if there is no Coulomb's law, at least two loads? For the spirit - beyond matter - I just ran out of space. Semantic Change that followed, she was something quite natural: instead of God - the laws of nature, instead of the soul - the psyche, because neither the deterministic mechanism of the universe, or of woven material, gelatinous machine hidden under the cover of a human skull no longer deserved - as it was - any lofty terms. Pogardzaliśmy matter (the belief that we are equipped with an independent element of it) and we got exactly what we deserved - we began to despise each other.
However, as the nineteenth century dualism eventually buried and allowed Nietzsche to announce the death of God, so the twentieth century, mainly due to discoveries of quantum physics, buried in a definitive way mechanism. It turned out that nature does not, however, is a "big clock", filmed by the "blind watchmaker," but rather "the organism" in the traditional sense of the term. Nature proved to be capricious, and returned it to the capriciousness of the mystery and majesty. And so the death of mechanism has created a chance for the "resurrection of God": the resurrection of nature. Also, the brain, as subject to unpredictable laws of nature, ceased to be a chemical razor. Subjective experience of our own fickleness was consistent with the description of the operation world and ourselves. Back to the naming of brain function the soul became fully justified. These possibilities
njuejdżowcy saw (do not they indeed the first) and praise them for it. Today, in fact, after the death of dualism, and conceptual revolution which took place under the influence of science, "Spirit of the Earth download, embedding it in the matter, and respirytualizacja resakralizacja nature, are probably the only chance to rebuild any credible conception of God. Concept matching at least the language, which we use today. It also noted the considerable group of Catholic thinkers (Even before the war de Chardin, Raimon Panikkar and then, a priest in Poland Gruss with his concept of Christian materialism, and many others), but - unfortunately - these views are not always met with acclaim. Treating nature as a "body" of God wipes out because of pantheism, and that (for reasons not entirely clear to me) always treated as a dangerous heresy. But "substantive" God does not necessarily have to be an impersonal "cosmic energy" njuejdżu, the God of the philosophers, Jaspersowską "transcendence." It may also be a personal God that interferes in the history of the world, taking care man and loving it. Only now, however, so we can see him, because God is beyond the remainder of the world could only "do not exist."
seems to me, moreover, that already in the nineteenth century there was a chance for "the breath of spirit in nature", mechanistic chance to overcome the consequences of mechanism. This missed opportunity has been known at least since the Middle Ages the idea of \u200b\u200binfinity of the universe. The idea that each element - remaining after the interaction with "the rest of the infinite" - has done an unpredictable (and so capricious). Emphasize that a person and regain the majesty of nature, not by free will, not by raising up, and with fickleness (volatility), which is a condition of secrecy. This mystery of the world produces the distance between any - even mechanistic - his model, and its images with reality. Thanks to the mystery of consciousness, confusion of the world with his idealized image becomes more difficult. And that is what the world, not ideas, it is true.
Another valuable feature in my opinion, ideology, NA is an affirmation of myths, and therefore the recognition of psychological and spiritual wisdom inherent in the mythologies and legends of cultures, both advanced as well as those known as "primitive." It is associated primarily with the names of the two "precursor of New Age" (as fans call them supporters of the Movement): Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist, student and friend of Sigmund Freud, who tried to build his own philosophy, or maybe even a religion, and so important for me, Joseph Campbell - an excellent popularizer of knowledge about the myths, the author of several best-selling books, also known by the wonderful series of television programs ("The Power of Myth"), available online today in many places in the network, which subsequently appeared in book form (translated into Polish and published by "Mark").
I Campell (and perhaps also Eliade) helped me understand the role of myths in our lives. He showed how myths reveal the hidden truths about ourselves, how to talk about our passions, ułomnościach, subconscious mechanisms for guiding our behavior, how to show us how to escape from life's pitfalls, how to shape the whole of human culture, as - in unconscious ways - shape the mentality of even those who say that none of the myths do not believe how much we lose if we reject the myths, as a "fabrication" and how inevitably - we do not know about it - then replace them with quasi-myths and superstitions, however, no longer carrying any substantial content . I am also persuaded by their depth, which never quite recognize, because it leads to "ultimate transcendent reality."
In this context, the natural question becomes, what should be for the Christian Scriptures? "Seer of God" textbook history, astronomy, biology? Or, rather, a story that using the language of myth tells an important truth about our soul, the meaning of our existence, a right relationship with God and our neighbors? In the first sense it is nothing really important, much less credible. Sublimity and importance for us can recover only as a myth - which of course does not necessarily imply the rejection of belief in the historical authenticity of some or all of the events described in it. I recognize the Bible as a myth can force us to accept it humbly and holistically. Any attempt to "historical" or "scientific" explanation of his message, all "demitologizacje" For example, rejection of the ascension, and the adoption of the crucifixion, are simply absurd, because there is historicity really are important. Humility and is also a consensus that the ultimate truth, which is to be given to us as described hiding, we will never be able to understand his mind, because the myth than what is reasonable. It is also recognized for any misunderstanding of theology, but also a chance for a more peaceful, tolerant religion.
emphasizes that this philosophy is the most effective, you can imagine, a shield against these attacks on Christianity, which as a method Action adopted rozmijania showing the description contained in the Bible to historical truth (or more generally with science.) Its adoption is needed, however, rehabilitation of the notion of myth, and this is not possible without the simultaneous recognition of the size of pagan myths.
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