The All is an Egg.: A Synthetic Theory of the Universe, Humankind and Religion
An egg ha a hen's way to produce another egg. This essay has no intention of reducing all the facets of human knowledge and skills to a metaphor of a very common item. Instead the egg is used as a focus because of its apparent simplicity, to elaborate from thereon towards the more complex issue of offering a new synthesis for the fragmented human knowledge and skills.
The current system encourages people to know everything about one thing and almost nothing about the rest. The so called "Ivory Tower" mentality among scientist is one manifestation of this attitude or, on a mundane level, the refusal of a camera man to replace the empty batteries of his came ra because union rules prescribe that this task has to be performed by an electrician. Both examples indicate the power of a socially induced conditioning against knowing or doing something that lies beyond one's very narrowly defined field of competence.
This essay, far from being of an encyclopedic nature, goes back to the roots of the three main facets of abstract human thinking: science, art and religion. It wants to bring forward the basics that link them together and emphasize that those are stronger than the bifurcation points where they seem to clash. Let's not foret that Einstein spent half of his life to contest the Quantum Theory because at some points it clashed with some theorems of his Relativity Theory. It took scientists almost a century to come up with a Grand Unifying Theory that reconciled both. It is my personal hope that this essay could lay the foundations for a new synthesis from where a new paradigm could take hold: a contemporary Philosopher's Egg.
In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul.Out of the egg - symbolized by the round cooking vessel - will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately identical with the Anthropos who was imprisoned in the embrase of Physis (C.J. Jung).
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The current system encourages people to know everything about one thing and almost nothing about the rest. The so called "Ivory Tower" mentality among scientist is one manifestation of this attitude or, on a mundane level, the refusal of a camera man to replace the empty batteries of his came ra because union rules prescribe that this task has to be performed by an electrician. Both examples indicate the power of a socially induced conditioning against knowing or doing something that lies beyond one's very narrowly defined field of competence.
This essay, far from being of an encyclopedic nature, goes back to the roots of the three main facets of abstract human thinking: science, art and religion. It wants to bring forward the basics that link them together and emphasize that those are stronger than the bifurcation points where they seem to clash. Let's not foret that Einstein spent half of his life to contest the Quantum Theory because at some points it clashed with some theorems of his Relativity Theory. It took scientists almost a century to come up with a Grand Unifying Theory that reconciled both. It is my personal hope that this essay could lay the foundations for a new synthesis from where a new paradigm could take hold: a contemporary Philosopher's Egg.
In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul.Out of the egg - symbolized by the round cooking vessel - will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately identical with the Anthropos who was imprisoned in the embrase of Physis (C.J. Jung).
The All is an Egg.: A Synthetic Theory of the Universe, Humankind and Religion
An egg ha a hen's way to produce another egg. This essay has no intention of reducing all the facets of human knowledge and skills to a metaphor of a very common item. Instead the egg is used as a focus because of its apparent simplicity, to elaborate from thereon towards the more complex issue of offering a new synthesis for the fragmented human knowledge and skills.
The current system encourages people to know everything about one thing and almost nothing about the rest. The so called "Ivory Tower" mentality among scientist is one manifestation of this attitude or, on a mundane level, the refusal of a camera man to replace the empty batteries of his came ra because union rules prescribe that this task has to be performed by an electrician. Both examples indicate the power of a socially induced conditioning against knowing or doing something that lies beyond one's very narrowly defined field of competence.
This essay, far from being of an encyclopedic nature, goes back to the roots of the three main facets of abstract human thinking: science, art and religion. It wants to bring forward the basics that link them together and emphasize that those are stronger than the bifurcation points where they seem to clash. Let's not foret that Einstein spent half of his life to contest the Quantum Theory because at some points it clashed with some theorems of his Relativity Theory. It took scientists almost a century to come up with a Grand Unifying Theory that reconciled both. It is my personal hope that this essay could lay the foundations for a new synthesis from where a new paradigm could take hold: a contemporary Philosopher's Egg.
In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul.Out of the egg - symbolized by the round cooking vessel - will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately identical with the Anthropos who was imprisoned in the embrase of Physis (C.J. Jung).
The current system encourages people to know everything about one thing and almost nothing about the rest. The so called "Ivory Tower" mentality among scientist is one manifestation of this attitude or, on a mundane level, the refusal of a camera man to replace the empty batteries of his came ra because union rules prescribe that this task has to be performed by an electrician. Both examples indicate the power of a socially induced conditioning against knowing or doing something that lies beyond one's very narrowly defined field of competence.
This essay, far from being of an encyclopedic nature, goes back to the roots of the three main facets of abstract human thinking: science, art and religion. It wants to bring forward the basics that link them together and emphasize that those are stronger than the bifurcation points where they seem to clash. Let's not foret that Einstein spent half of his life to contest the Quantum Theory because at some points it clashed with some theorems of his Relativity Theory. It took scientists almost a century to come up with a Grand Unifying Theory that reconciled both. It is my personal hope that this essay could lay the foundations for a new synthesis from where a new paradigm could take hold: a contemporary Philosopher's Egg.
In alchemy the egg stands for the chaos apprehended by the artifex, the prima materia containing the captive world-soul.Out of the egg - symbolized by the round cooking vessel - will rise the eagle or phoenix, the liberated soul, which is ultimately identical with the Anthropos who was imprisoned in the embrase of Physis (C.J. Jung).
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| ISBN-13: | 9781663522467 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 06/17/2020 |
| Pages: | 200 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.42(d) |
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