Heaven and Earth ~ part 7

In my last post, which was part 6 of this series, I asked a question: "How is a human being able to determine whether a proposition about the world is true?”

I have also mentioned that my observation is that for the most part, human beings are very receptive to what can seem to be ready-made packets of data about what is correct about life and consequently can appear to be slow or unwilling to open such packets and to examine its contents for themselves.

It would appear as if fundamentally, despite all of those activities which might suggest an attitude of conflict, there exists some natural tendency or willingness within humanity for coherence, to co-operate and to be in consensus about life. Certainly, this has come in very handy if we are identifying an object or a physical threat and need to communicate with one another about it.

More importantly than that though, it is through communication and shared agreement that humanity has moved into clarity of the presence of its needs and desires, which in turn has established value and inspired codes of ethics and morality. Being able to communicate with one another about personal choices and experience of life has served as a backbone of civilisation, in that it has inspired humanity to build structured communities, which draw their strength from agreement and respect of a rule of law.

There is no doubt that humanity has proven itself to be very successful at working with structure, creating hierarchies, lines of progression, opportunities as well as deepening its understanding of cause and effect. This has helped to provide it with an impression of its superiority over other species, even one another through its mastery at establishing a sense of order from what would otherwise have been interpreted as chaotic or most primitive conditions of life.

Nevertheless, beyond all of the agreements and structures that have been built to ensure humanity’s continuity and success, life retains its great mystery and vitality, which allows for change to have its expression. Indeed it could be said that some measure of chaos within a natural order is necessary and even desirable to allow for the evolution of a species.

In part 6 of this series, I said that: “To know the world, we must think about it. We must test the validity of our truth for ourselves. We must not only contemplate the microcosm and the macrocosm but allow for ourselves to be energetically transformed by it as well.”

To embark wholeheartedly upon the human journey requires a willingness to explore the opportunities being provided through our current understanding or perception of diversity, preference and conflict. It is through engaging with this that we find that our focus and attention moves beyond a dual subject-object mode or to put it more simply, this or that way of thinking. We inevitably find ourselves teetering on the brink of what appears to be new terrain or that which a study of physics might refer to as a singularity. What we are really choosing to explore is a quantum universe which allows for our model of reality.