By ALAN WATTS
Spiritual shouldn’t be separated from material nor the wonderful from the ordinary. We need, above all, to disentangle ourselves from the habit of speech and thought which set this two apart making it impossible for us to see that THIS – the immediate, everyday and present experience – is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.
THE WISDOM OF INSECURITY : PART 2
BY ALLAN WATTS
The proper meaning of the word ‘theory’ is not idle speculation but vision. Vision in this sense means ‘clarity’ .. proper understanding of who you are and where you want to go. Without such vision all talk of being practical is useless. It is like walking busily in a fog and going nowhere.
If we have contradictory wants for example sovereign borders and world peace, then their results however practical we may be about getting them will be further contradictions.
A summary of facts from David Shiang’s famous book
After the renaissance scientists like Galileo & Copernicus, the next giant to come in the scientific arena was Isaac Newton. Newton discovered the laws of motion and science related to gross objects. He claimed that the world is inherently deterministic & predictable & if we apply certain parameters to physical laws, that which is to come can be determined too. He didn’t believe in the possibility of chance, randomness or unpredictability in events.