When it comes to exploring the Nature of Reality, certain ingredients are essential, including the Uncertainty Principle itself, not to mention the essential falseness of Languages as they blunder around, doing their best to explain the inexplicable with words, which are never the thing described ... poets may point musically towards it, scientists forensically may examine it, either and or both and others, philosophers perhaps, even posit consciousness as necessary ...the last of which is so crazy that even Carlo leaves the question open!
Question everything still stands as an essential condition in the never-ending search for Truth ... supported by Rovelli, who happily quotes Buddha as well as the seers of the quantum world, long limited by an orthodoxy focussing on the amazing potential of manipulation of particles, or waves, in support of economic and political goals, some beneficial to the world and humanity, some not so much ... do read his beautifully written book on Time and its fundamental falsity, not to mention the fundamental falseness of the small self itself ... as for the fragment of the Whole writing this blog, he wonders how Rovelli constructs his thesis without mentioning David Bohm and K, who explored The Ending of Time not so long ago, arriving at similar conclusions with remarkable success in practical terms, including schools worldwide and Centre too, mainly identified with K as World Teacher, as proclaimed by the Theosophical Society ... though K, of course, questioning everything in his younger days, renounced the title and taught adherents to be leaders of themselves, since organised religions, with gurus leading and others following, always led to problems ... without trace of irony, followers of K proceeded to follow him with added fervour ...
Psychology comes into play to comprehend this tendency in humanity to avoid the awful Truth of our non-existence, whilst happily quoting mystics from many religious traditions ... Philosophy in this regard says: Know Thyself, i.e. first look inside before projecting all your hopes and fears into the void, creating worlds, perhaps as holograms, to be judged as good or bad, them and us, your team or mine ... needless to say the most inflated egos of all may be found around the Gurus, Popes, Bishops and all the rest claiming spiritual authority over their flock ... not to mention cocksure atheists, throwing babies out with bathwater, asserting the impossibility of anything they can't imagine, usually miserable types like Dawkins asserting selfish genes as facts, while scientists with open minds happily embrace the only logical position of agnosticism ...
Bringing us to Giordano Bruno, Spinoza, Buddha, Lao Tse, K and Bohm perhaps, Rovelli too, though modern scientists avoid words which may infer religious notions as they approach the calm certainty of Gautama, for example ... though Rovelli, interestingly, having cited Buddha, suggests his core teaching is Suffering, as modelled on the Cross by Christ, whereas the Four Noble Truths first acknowledge Suffering, or Existential Angst, then proceed to transcend it, leaving our hero serenely teaching what he found in profound meditation ... and, to be clear here, this by no means infers that a whole religious set-up, with organisations of different kinds called Buddhism, with gurus yet again in charge, is necessary or helpful except as entertainment or maybe steps along the Pathless Path ...
Back in Stanhope, snow lays thick and solid for another day before thawing tomorrow ... conversations on the Fell, in the street and the shops, assert the basic human rights and necessity for kindness, attention and fun ... anti-human regulations to prevent these rights ignored, of course ... what else can you do?
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