Posted by johnboy on September 14, 19100 at 18:51:12:
In Reply to: Re: Wilberish Posting-A Meta-Ethic from Complexity Theory posted by Diana on September 14, 19100 at 17:36:40:
>>>I mistakenly thought it was Haught.
Well, my thoughts were good and original, eh? The good thoughts were not too original (they WERE Haught's, Whitehead, Polyani, Wilber et al) and my original thoughts were not too good!
>>> Now, I'm free to be me. :)
that's why I come here, too
: So, then, it follows that you think that what we experience is different from reality as it is
: because what we experience is processed through our sensations, perceptions, etc?
ahem! well, give me a few more decades on that question!
: I liked your emphasis on the aesthetic, too.
: However, beauty also varies according to culture. A beautiful woman in one culture could be considered quite ugly in another.
i view truth, beauty and goodness as One (but I concede the pragmatic point)
:I am left with sharing creative versions of my stories via fairy tales and children's stories. After all, what logical minded rationalist would believe them!
POSITIVELY, we need to better nurture both the individual and collective application of our intuitive faculties, especially in our western
spiritualities. Tony deMello spent his life teaching the importance of awareness versus analysis, of insight versus information, perhaps patterned after the founder of his order, St. Ignatius, who emphasized the need to "taste" the truth versus merely "knowing" the truth. Oliver Sacks' book and movie, Awakenings", describes how brain-damaged individuals can be roused out of stupor by music and art when nothing else can reach them. None of this is to denigrate the other modes of contribution. It is offerred as an affirmation of what has been too often neglected, of what we might more often be about in spiritual direction.
From Amos Wilder: "Imagination is a necessary component of all profound knowing and celebration ... It is at the level of imagination that any full engagement with life takes place."
From Morton Kelsey: "God knew that human beings learn more by story and music, by art, symbols, and images than by logical reasoning, theorems, and equations, so God's deepest revelations have always been expressed in images and stories."
And so, perhaps a different experience of the mystery of God is in store for the asking. Our growth in freedom, in love ...in awareness via all faculties ...may ensue.