Science: Fiction & Fact

We see the 'fiction' science inspires in one day,
morphs readily into scientific 'fact' the next day,
by the labor of sincere and sustained inquiry.
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What Light?

Knowing 'about' the universe can never equal the value of our contribution to its ongoing evolution that is our own co-creation occurring in the context of time। While olden myths of origin have been succeeded by those more adequate to trace the contours of a cosmos, these have only framed deeper questions which lay still before and within us. Namely, who are we having wondered so well and answered in kind, to see the stars, their form and structure, bearing the signature of our own design? What light is this within us lay, seeing through us this light around us, holding sway; what meanings await our shared construction, what value remains hidden deep within our hearts, we who so often hold only matters of fact in mind? Liberated seemingly, from illusions of religion, what wisdom is yet to be born from our love divine?
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Assumptions

All human thought is built upon assumptions। Science, revered so often as infallible by (a)theists of every kind during the reign of what are now waning ideologies of materialism, featured scientists as high priests of matter, mediating its mysteries to the 'lay' audience in return for unlimited stipends paid as tithes to the idol of nationalism whose 'heaven' is unlimited sovereignty achieved through endless war. Alas, Science is built upon the assumption that reason is valid, that the universe can be comprehended and relies heavily upon at least three further assumptions: matter, motion, and life. However, all human knowledge is incomplete given that Science will forever seek to identify, analyze, and classify the segmented parts of a limitless cosmos while Religion grasps by faith the 'idea-of-the-whole' i.e. the entire cosmos leaving Philosophy to attempt the identification of the material segments of Science with the spiritual-insight of the whole to make meaningful a larger spectrum of our human experience.
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Fabric of Knowing

The inevitable passion with which persons devote themselves to love is indicative of how potent the realm of value functions in relation to an expanding horizon of fact। Human life is composed of a qualitative dimension of intangible value interwoven with the quantitative realm of tangible matter(s) of fact which when integrated in a living i.e. personal philosophy contributes new meanings to our evolving experience. Alas, Science has no more of a monopoly upon knowledge than Religion does upon God.
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Waves of Time

While eternity is one, the consciousness of time functions as the 'perception' of sequential motion. Such events unfold contingent upon a nearly infinite vector field of influences that when modeled mathematically produce a range of probabilistic scenarios. These 'illusions' are the tool of every art used to assist anyone lacking vision to probe the surface of the phenomenal realm to see the depth of noumenal reality we are, even now, in truth and spirit.

As it has been said that vision is the art of seeing the invisible, this could be expanded to include a larger range of senses, including the handful possessed by us humans, to feel this very moment what otherwise we know only by faith is living in and through us।
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Truth & Fact

Consciousness of 'fact'
is not synonymous
with experience of 'truth'.
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Prophetic Vision

Predictions of prophetic vision are functions of finite mind endeavoring to see in any one infinitesimal increment of time the fulfillment of that singular moment of eternity just as we can see the pattern of a Universe of universes in our humble mortal homes. May we find these in every glance knowing all the while we are invited to see our First Source in one another.
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Sphere of Culture

Each and all of us play a game of living art in every encounter with our fellows. The field is endless and the rules are simple, no one wins alone; the prize awaits the moment when we all have won together. The sphere with which we play is glorious, but ever changing, and with each pass it advances or retreats in splendor, depending on how it is thrown. Some think it should be thrown 'at' another, but of course, it is 'to' them we toss it in advancing levels of artful exchange for it is in this sphere we see in vivid color the reflection of our evolving and collective soul.
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Primacy of Learning

Learning and teaching are related to our growth as are inhaling and exhaling. Indeed, the universe does not recognize our having learned anything until we can effectively impart the same to another.
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Synchronous Stars

While the tools of mathematics replete with increasingly powerful modeling capabilities afford us opportunities for mastery of an ever larger number of endeavors whether the mere actuarials of cost, patterns of weather, demographic trends, or the simulation of actual experience in war and the pursuits of peace via educational training, such tools cannot prove or disprove any theories of personality. It is apparent that the study of personality is outside the domain of material science even if the former would do well to incorporate insights from the latter, but it is to such an informed mind sensitive to the immeasurable value of 'personhood' who nonetheless sets out to more meaningfully understand the wondrous nature of personality that is to be commended if not explicitly encouraged.

Toward this end, it is incumbent upon anyone undertaking the exploration of knowledge let alone the pursuit of wisdom, to recognize with gratitude the efforts of our fellows who preceded us in this same capacity. It is always from their terminus that we take up our point of departure. The history of science surely would be far from adequate if we were to overlook the discipline required to study stellar signatures and planetary motion sufficient to gain an understanding appreciation of the patterns of the night sky by those mortals first intrigued by the very possibility of their meaning. And while we would all be ill advised to rely upon the methods of our more 'primitive' forbears for gauging successful space probes, their related fascination with personality continues to this day albeit along different lines of inquiry. Indeed, the ancient typologies of personality first developed by these early star students are no less valuable to our long term appreciation of the evolutionary composition of knowledge than their cosmologies which when compared with our own today, show how inexorable is the imperative for us as a species to paint a mask of the universe made meaningful to our own milieu by virtue of the tools we use to render this picture, tools which by necessity must be contemporaneous with our culture.

I would venture that contemporary interest in astrology is less a lingering superstition than an indication of the limitations of existing 'national science foundation' priorities which show a disproportionate interest in military, industrial, and economic power more than insight into the meaning and value of personality relationships। This would account for the fact that the studies of the Greeks which led to the Enneagram and the modern studies of Carl Jung from which developed such tools as Myers-Briggs Assessment Scales are but a few of the limited vocabularies which augment an otherwise more ancient picture that is the mask of personality afforded by Astrology. Perhaps if our civilization would allow itself the liberty to take up the study of spirit with the same zeal with which it now probes the mystery of matter, we might develop more adequate vocabularies to describe and understand personality, even one which would do justice to a society not simply enamored with an indexed aggregation of factual information sponsored by 'corporate citizens', but alive with the personal pursuit of knowledge which freely embraces the wisdom of divine love.
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Logic & Love

Any inclined to expect the melodious voice of divinity to fit neatly into the machine of human language would become as those finding contradiction to be the signal of logic's defeat rather than the step upon which we make our ascent in the discovery of greater knowledge।
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Experiment & Experience

As there is no scientist worthy of the name who would accept the factual claims of any 'revelation' without having proven them first in the rigors of experimentation, likewise, religionists do well to affirm only the truth claims authenticated in their personal experience. The wisdom arising from the combined function of such experimentation and experiential discovery signifies an enlightened citizen of universe standing and an illumined child of the evolving God of Supremacy who has been unfettered from the restraints of human authority, unbound by the limits of mortal language, and liberated to express a love that is unspeakable.
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Phenome

The phenomena we observe in fact is but a veil crumbling before the noumena we are in truth. The mirror of mind reflects the former while the latter looks through it.
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School of the Heavens

The realm of heaven is the school whose day is composed of three periods; home, work, and rest। In all these periods are taught three courses; facts, meanings, and values, and between each period, ample time is provided for play while on the playground are found three spheres that correspond to the courses studied. One is large and heavy and always moves in a linear fashion. The second is larger still than the first, but ever so light, and moves in an unpredictable and surprising manner while the third is truly glorious, of varying sizes and shapes. It swirls with eddies of ever-changing colors and can be touched only with the breath. Some children are drawn to one of these more than the others, but all play with each at different times. While the object of the school is unwritten, it is rumored to be the growth of affection which emerges only as the children come to know each other better than they do their lessons.
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Fact & Value

Is it a great knowledge whose survey of fact extends from the deepest particle of matter to the borders of a universe of universes? Or, is it a greater knowledge which penetrates the depth of a single human heart and there discovers the meaning of friendship? Still, is it not the greatest knowledge which feels the value of divine love holding in perfect poise the personal and the mechanical? However, does not wisdom bind these mere forms of knowing together with the ease of a Mother gathering her children to greet the return of their Father from a long journey? And the song she sings as she runs to greet him, is it not the literature of all the ages? Who then is her lover, friend and husband; is it not Philosophy?
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Indeterminance

Would we imagine rules to guard against the unexpected and mysterious, and in doing so, preempt the beauty and majesty of an unexpected gift to secure the mere prose of a well measured fact? Would the warm, uneven, and scarred flesh of a hand extended in the risk of uninsured friendship, so rich in an honesty forged in the rigors of a molten earth be spurned in favor of a machine, polished and cool, given not in unstudied passion, but with an assurance of exemption from injury, sealed forever against the pain which prefigures the movement of our redemption? Are we not children of an evolving God whose sovereignty of love only grows in, upon, and through the rubble of our uncertainty?

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Vision of Grandeur

All that we see around us
is but the scaffolding to build
the soul we cannot see within us.
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Knowing & Believing

As the human mind is always in a position of knowing less than it can believe, it is clear that this stimulating dynamic is problematic. However, the problematic need not be destructive but can instead serve as a creative source of playful liberation if we keep in "mind" the difference between the realms of faith, belief, and fact.

The realm of faith is where we experience the greatest liberty of movement as here the imaginings of the heart can mix at ease with the prompting of spirit. Eventually though, our experience of value must impinge upon the realm of fact, and as it does, the prerogatives of mind asserts itself. The resulting intellectual labor is the source of human philosophy and never ceases to require adjustment consonant with the changes in perception of spirit and knowledge of matter. Successful coordination can yield meaningful patterns of great beauty as "systems" of knowledge take shape, but these are constructed slowly and with due respect for the relative densities of the various components, namely, spiritual faith, intellectual meaning, and material fact.

Consider the snow as it falls from the sky like spiritual grace descending upon our world. Its beauty is like that of faith, causing us to lift our view aloft in amazement where we all partake of the wonders of this gift. As it falls to the ground and accumulates, it begins to take on a shape of meaningful proportion conforming to the ground upon which we stand. At this point our minds begin to measure the opportunities and risks of this gift relative to the density with which it cloaks us. Its heavy silence is both blessing and curse. We therefore use discretion and caution when proceeding at this stage. Afterwards though, when we have spent ourselves laboring in this substance, a certain hardness begins to take shape, its density increases under our steady pressure. Just like hard facts, great forms are assembled, figures which delight as well as forts behind which we hide.

Many of us are familiar with the the joy of lifting our gaze to greet the falling snowflake, how gently it alights and kisses our face. And again, how it feels to bury ourselves in the deep, heavy snow, cold and quiet allowing for much reflection. Even the snowball thrown in friendly jest can be fun, but when hardened with malice and thrown with intent to harm, can be a source of danger and discouragement. So our facts, constructed with much labor, when meaningfully shaped with the substance of our faith, can be a harmful weapon as well as a source of deepening friendship. The choice is ours, but even with good will, we can make mistakes.

How many times have we hurt a friend by not appreciating the force of all the accumulated gifts of grace shaped with our good intentions, packed into a hard fact and thrown according to the rules of play? However, we are but children gathering experience along the way.

Forgiveness is paramount!
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