"It is about lifting ourselves out of ignorance and finding ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and creativity. "
Fromm explains that Being is a fundamental mode of existence or orientation to the world, one of aliveness and authentic relatedness.
Bohm thingks that the current trend towards fragmentation is embedded in the subject-verb-object structure of our grammar, and is reflected at the personal and social levels by our tendency to see inidividuals and groups as "other" than ourselves, leading to isolation, selfishness and wars.
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People should not consider so much what they are to do, as what they are. Meister Eckhart.
The Way to do is to be. Lao-Tzu
We were talking about the awareness of the essential interrelatedness and interdependence of all phenomena -- physiological, social, and cultural.
Mach's Principle: The whole is as necessary to the undertanding of its parts, as the parts are necessary to the understanding of the whole.
Bohm: "The attempt to supppose that measure exists prior to man and independently of hiim leads, as has been seen, to the 'objectification' of man's insight so that it becomes rigidified and unable to change, eventually bringing about fragmentation and general confusion."
"We have it in our power to begin the world all over again. A situation similar to the present hath not appeared since the days of Noah until now. The birthday of a new world is at hand." Tom Paine, 1775.
Francisco Varela: "The open quality of the universe. All matter is constantly in motion and is insubstantial. The ppicture of a roack or a board or a human being as solid matter does not comport with reality. The notion that the world and our universe are made up of separate 'things' is an illusion and leads to endless confusion."
Our language and our nervous system combine to constantly construct our environment. We can only see what we talk about because we are speaking blind; beyond language. We know the world as we walk on its path.
I had always thought that we use language to describe the world. Now I was seeing thta this in not the case. To the contrary, it is through language that we create the world, because it's nothing untill we describe it.
We must shift from images of a clockwork, machinelike universe that is fixed and determined, to the model of a unviverse that is open, dynamic, interconnected, and full of living qualities.
It's funny, we sometimes think words are the measure, and somehow think that our ability to articulate is a measureable business. But it's precisely the immeasurable that we enmost deeply care about -- the undefiniable, the intangible, and the the inexpressible -- the real.
