Recently
Pope Francis, Bishop
of Rome and Sovereign of the Vatican City, visited the United States of
America. The Muhammad came to the ‘hill’. And none too soon. The head of the
most fundamentalist organization on the face of the earth, replete with dogmas,
mysteries and peripheral infallibility, spoke, publicly, against fundamentalism
Glory, Alleluia!
Pope Francis is not your average pope. He moves around in a compact
Fiat. He doesn’t dine with the rich and famous, but with the homeless. He
doesn’t live in the Apostolic Palace but in an ordinary apartment, like we all
do; well, most of us. Pope Francis is likely to give the Vatican a bad name.
Or, perhaps, just perhaps, he stemmed the escalating delusions that
permeated both, the most powerful church and the most powerful secular
organization? The Vatican and the Congress?
People often misunderstand the concept of fundamentalism. It is not
just a religious or even a scientific malady. The disease is spread not by viruses
or bacteria but by people who think they know all the answers; who consider
themselves infallible experts in any field. Any field at all. They cannot
accept, even at emotional level, that all is relative, and we can only
speculate on probabilities.
Speculate—not know.
After all, compared to any intelligent life that evolved on countless
celestial orbs that are a few million years older than our Earth, we are at the
level of amoebas—earthworms at best. If not, the alternative is too dire to
contemplate. If we are already so smart as to know anything with dogmatic
certainty, our evolution is over. We reached our intellectual zenith.
I know that I know nothing, said Socrates.
And compared to the infinity of time dangling in front of us, we also
know nothing. We don’t even know what we don’t know. We live in an ocean of
Delusions.
Anyone who regards the phenomenal universe as real, as solid,
material, is to some degree, a fundamentalist.
To recap:
Phenomenal world is NOT real. It only looks solid, material, to our
primitive eyes. In fact it is just
a vortex of energies in constant motion. Our human senses are not yet sufficiently
developed to perceive the truth fulminating behind the optical illusion. And
this goes for all our senses. If you think otherwise, you’re a fundamentalist.
At this stage of our evolution we cannot even define who we are. We
boast hundreds of trillions of synapses connecting around a hundred billion
neurons, and we don’t even know who we are. We don’t even realize that all
those neurons are virtually empty space. Like the rest of us. Like the rest of
the visible Universe.
The best we can attempt to define would be that we are, or experience
our becoming, through vortices of energy spinning in wild abandon at the
bidding of some incomprehensible amorphous energy conducting the Universal
orchestra.
The Music of the Spheres?
The Universe is a condition of eternal change. For us, only the
journey matters. We call is life.
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Very fundamental Stan, the exposition of relativity and the comparative anatomy of belief in the vortex of change. Here's looking at you, amoeba!
ReplyDeleteAs one amoeba to another, thank you!
DeleteBut seriously.... a good extension of this post http://meader.org/2015/10/the-one-life/
ReplyDeleteMeader, probably like myself, seems to be "preaching" to the converted. I object to the old man in need of a shave whose image is still identified with god. He talks of Singularity, but personalizes it with the word "God". We are in need of non-theistic concept to express the creative amorphous energy of the Universe. After all, there was no greater atheist than Yeshûa, who only recognized heaven within himself, with the attendant source of power and creativity. All religions, with the partial exception of Buddhism, destroyed this concept.
ReplyDeleteOne of the difficulties in speaking to the non-converted is to 'translate' their concepts ( ie Bearded man) into more universal and less fundamental ones. Is that not what Meader is attempting ?
ReplyDeleteI dare say. In my experience one can reinforce one's views with the Few, and share them with the Many that are 'already' called. But attempting to reach the Third party, (the vast majority) whose ears are as yet firmly shut is an abortive endeavour.
DeleteYes I suspect you are right, but the 'many' that are nearly called might respond to a nudge? Especially well insinuated between the lines...and that you are very good at!
ReplyDeleteI might reach their subconscious, not the conscious awareness which is virtually asleep.
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