The modern and post-modern mind has decided that the universe, the cosmos has no soul, no intelligence, and is simply mass and matter to be exploited, turned into toothpicks and toilet paper and fast food and whatever will give the stock market an upswing.
So delusional, so erroneous, so wrong.
The cosmos is soulful and we are its embodyings.
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If we don't recognize embodyings, then how could we recognize the anima mundi? That is, if the modern or post-modern mind knocks on its own door and hears no answer, then the universe must certainly be empty.
ReplyDelete--Gary
One should laugh at such nonsense when one sees it. The miracle of Life, the sacredness of all living things, is not something that can be entered into a spreadsheet and tallied up. The folly of ignorance writ large.
ReplyDeleteI know the "soul" I experience and it seems disembodied. How far does soulspace extend? Is distance even relevant in that loosely constructed space of images and feelings. I have no way to know soul beyond experience - it is a leap of faith I am not willing to take. The soul I know is a doorway, a portal to Mystery - it seems to me a zone utterly beyond knowing.
ReplyDelete~Stan
The universe of apparent objects seems to me like an amazingly intricate illusion. The gestalt that emerges from simultaneous touch, sound, sight, smell, taste, and temperature is not all that different from the vivid multidimiensional imagery of dreams. And yet upon close inspection there is clearly a distinct difference between the two. I do not experience lasting injury when I fall in dreams. In dreams "I" sometimes have six fingers, sometimes five.
ReplyDeleteThis apparently "solid stuff" is as much a mystery as the ephemeral experiences of the soul world. I know only what I experience and I reason based upon available evidence that my experiences are mere representations, but of what? Stories abound but nobody knows for sure. Upon what grounds can anyone argue that it is possible to "know" anything beyond transient experiences and stories we become attached to?
~Stan
A vast difference exists between soul as experience and soul as an object. I see soul as a verb and not a noun. I experience the embodyING of soul and not disembod-dead at all.
ReplyDeleteAnd who is this "I" seeing and experiencing but soul itself aware of its souling.
The soul I am con-souls me, gives me con-soul-ation with its Vastness encompassing the realms we conventionally call interior and exterior.
This moment, and each moment, is thick -- thick with the interweavings and interconnectings of this Vastness of which we are a part and which we are.
"Upon what grounds can anyone argue that it is possible to "know" anything beyond transient experiences and stories we become attached to?"
ReplyDeleteThe ground of being -- which incorporates both experience and reason.
Gary, ah, the anima mundi, the ensouled world. After having descended into the depths of the hell of separation, the dark night of the soul, and becoming totally lost but going on anyway, resolute in one's closure to all fairy tales, one is reborn (so to speak) into the vibrant calm urgency of an ensouled cosmos with no portion of it objectified and thus conveniently idol-ized for worship or discard. One IS the cosmos with, in the words of the immortal poet and bard Bob Dylan, "no direction home" since home is in all directions.
ReplyDeleteSans soul searching, my soul is simply me.
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