Welcome to Weekly Guest Post 9 of the book tour The Door is Open by Andrew Court. Watch for a weekly guest post for the next several weeks on my site!
DIFFERENT WAYS OF
KNOWING
When engaged in our
scientific way of knowing, a human being stands in requisite isolation outside of the creation, as an
inquiring, analytic, ‘onlooker’ --
and from this standpoint it is reasonable that we can make nature subservient
to our intellect and our will. From this sensible, useful vantage point, come
all our noteworthy achievements in science and technology, and the economic
growth and abundance that these occasion. But as a spectator to life and creation, science itself has no, and needs no, intrinsic system of ethics:
ethics must come from within life.
Unfortunately, because this detached modern endeavor is so little informed by
traditional wisdom, for all our incredible know-how and frenzied attempts to
transform the whole world, we are increasingly helpless before the world we are
creating. A moment’s reflection upon the stunning developments taking place
each day in the worlds of computers, weaponry, genes, and clones, provides
sufficient verification for this statement.
Traditional ways-of-knowing live on, of course, and most of us retain at least a vague feeling that there must be some sense and significance ‘behind it all’. But we are hesitant to allow these vague feelings to carry the same weight as scientific facts, they are not really considered to have anything to do with authentic ‘important’ knowledge, and we may even feel somewhat ashamed to harbor such ‘irrational feelings’. Yet there is no rational justification for such an unexamined attitude -- it is just a symptom of our jaded indifference, our deeply ingrained submissiveness to the current scientific vogue.
Socrates declared that the soul is immortal. This may or may not be true. But the truth of this statement cannot be decided one way or another by anything scientists have to tell us. In fact, if the great questions and issues of human life still matter to us, we cannot depend on science to solve the riddles for us. This is not a task that can be delegated.
Traditional ways-of-knowing live on, of course, and most of us retain at least a vague feeling that there must be some sense and significance ‘behind it all’. But we are hesitant to allow these vague feelings to carry the same weight as scientific facts, they are not really considered to have anything to do with authentic ‘important’ knowledge, and we may even feel somewhat ashamed to harbor such ‘irrational feelings’. Yet there is no rational justification for such an unexamined attitude -- it is just a symptom of our jaded indifference, our deeply ingrained submissiveness to the current scientific vogue.
Socrates declared that the soul is immortal. This may or may not be true. But the truth of this statement cannot be decided one way or another by anything scientists have to tell us. In fact, if the great questions and issues of human life still matter to us, we cannot depend on science to solve the riddles for us. This is not a task that can be delegated.
Andrew Cort is an expert on the inner message of Spiritual Awakening that is always ready to be found in the wonderful stories of the Bible and Greek Mythology. To receive several FREE GIFTS from Dr. Cort (a copy of Chapter One, ‘Making the Decision’, form his new book, THE DOOR IS OPEN; a copy of his article on RECONCILING SCIENCE AND RELIGION; and a complete version of the Bible’s erotic masterpiece, SONG OF SONGS , adapted as a Poetic Dialogue to be read out loud by lovers; as well as a subscription to his SPIRITUAL GROWTH NEWSLETER) click here http://www.andrewcort.com/Gifts . You can also learn more on his blog, Spiritualityand Religion.
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