Last week we read Jeffrey Kripal’s The Super Natural, in the text he mentions, “We are not our physical body; we are spirits, and as such we are immortal and we are destined, lifetime by lifetime...to evolve into ever higher levels of consciousness and so return to God”. Through investigations of various worldviews and the ‘real’, I am discovering evidence and support for that which I feel and know to be true and real for myself. Particularly throughout that last few months I have grown more aware about the colonization of knowledge, not just in context to religion and power, but the overall institutionalized control of power/knowledge dynamics in place such as language, culture, and education. The quote above provided by Kirpal assists in backing where my worldview lies, and the ever expanding and dynamic composition of my minds eye. …show more content…
To explain, beginning with the basic atomic building blocks, a perfect harmony of protons, electrons and neutrons must be in a balanced existence for any and all to even occur. In addition, through scientific study our species has discovered how notions of gravity, oxygen, and complex interactions between energy and matter all coexist (once again in perfect harmony) to create the moment us ‘humans’ take so fiercely for granted. Whether through direct social control, notions of ‘common sense’, popular norms, and all the other various politics of life it is easy to lose sight of the clarity, divinity, and simplicity of the
If we take a glance at the world we live in today, we can recognize that people are different from one another in physical and psychological ways. Since this is the case, people possess the ability to develop different ideas even if they deal with the same topic. This can be seen through the one thing that everyone in this world holds in common, which is that we are all living beings that will eventual experience death. Even though we all share the same characteristics of being alive and will eventually face death, there are many different ideas of what will happen to someone after death. The movie “Unmistaken Child”, demonstrates one idea of what the Tibetan Buddhist Monks believes happens to someone after death.
J.P. Moreland’s book, Kingdom Triangle, asserts the irreplaceable role of knowledge in the Church’s duty of guiding the world out of darkness and into what the author calls “life indeed”. Moreland presents the human race as a lost people in search of truth. In life, truth holds the ultimate authority because it remains the end goal. The world constantly looks for a guide in the search of life’s ultimate meaning. Any individual, any idea can quickly become a source of hope for the lost. Religious movements claim to answer life’s greatest question. Each apparent truth works to prove a different meaning to life, a unique way to live and a grander story to captivate any audience willing to listen. Social trends attempt to fill the soul’s emptiness by providing a safety net within the confines of conformity. Scientific studies and technological advances relentlessly push the limits of the definition of possible in order to be enough, whatever that may mean. All missions point back to one ultimate mission, the quest toward an abundant life. But all fall short. Knowledge provides an individual with the right to power and authority and the lack of knowledge eliminates an individual from the same positions. An individual exudes knowledge in the ability to represent a topic with clarity, purpose, expertise and experience. It is about representing well. When the Christian receives the gift of salvation and eternal life, he or she takes on the responsibility of representing knowledge of
From as early as 408 B.C.E., iterations of the adage ‘misery loves company’ have appeared in written texts. First attributed to Sophocles in Athens, this popular dictum has traveled far from Greece, and has found itself at the core of Ethan Frome. In Edith Wharton’s tragic novella Ethan Frome (1911), the titular protagonist’s infliction of suffering encompasses the key principles of Naturalism. Illustrating this, Ethan forces Zeena, his wife, to disengage from her environment and retreat into silence. Further, he recklessly pursues Mattie, Zeena’s exuberant cousin, and dulls the radiance which first attracted him. And as the final nail, Ethan cages himself in obligation, desperately rattling its bars, but never stepping past them.
In chapter three, the author points out the weaknesses in advancement worldview. The epistemological problem in advancement, which is based on biological evolution and considers the mind as a “merely biological product” (37), is the first and perhaps the foremost problem for particular this view. “If naturalism is a proper description of reality, man’s mind could not be truly free to look at biological facts objectively” (38). The author compares the traditional and modern theories of knowledge and highlights the loss of freedom and the loss of truth. Bush strongly criticizes predetermination.
One thing that ponders almost all who live is what happens after one dies. There are multiple theories about life after death, or the absence of it, many dependent on one’s religious beliefs. However, this is also a question philosophers have faced and come up with theories for. Bertrand Russell, a well-known philosopher from the twentieth century, has a theory on the matter. His theory on life after death, in standard form, is as follows: There is a strong correlation between brain states and mental states. In particular, the correlation between brain damage and impairment in mental capacity. So, probably all the mental states and capacities that we associate with a particular person are ontologically dependent on the continued functioning of that individual 's brain. So, if one 's brain ceases to function, then one 's mind ceases, as well. If you survive death, then your mind must survive. But, brain functioning ceases with death. Therefore, you will not survive death (Zelinski “On”). The argument is valid but some question whether it is sound. Russell 's argument is sound because the third premise, if one’s brain ceases to function, then one’s mind ceases to function, is true; the fifth premise, brain functioning ceases with death, is also true; that all leads to the conclusion, your mind will not survive death, being true.
children of mother earth we have the knowledge to be pass down to the next
At present, humanity has vast amounts of knowledge, but still very little wisdom. Buckminster Fuller called this time our final evolutionary exam. Is our species fit to survive? Can we develop the wisdom that will allow us to use our prodigious powers for our own good, and for that of many generations to come? The question then arises: What can we do to facilitate the development of wisdom? This is where the wisdom traditions—the spiritual traditions found throughout human culture—have their value. They are often seen as simply religions, but most of the great religions were seeded by wise people, people who had, in one way or another, awoken to the deeper truths of life and then sought to share their wisdom with
Knowledge is a powerful tool, one which will unlock many doors for us as individuals and as the whole of the human race, but we must always remember the consequences of gaining knowledge. It is both our blessing and our curse, and we must never forget that knowledge is a power, what we do with that power will determine our fate and
Our spiritual nourishment from it changes according to imposed ideologies, and as vicious as humans can be, some of them rips apart our own consciousness and makes us part of something other than a part of ourselves.
In the Myth of the Soul, Darrow argues against different conceptions of immortality. One of the arguments that he presents to us is that we have a soul that can survive our death. Darrow argues that there is no evidence for the existence of the soul and questions where the soul stays within our body and when it enters our body. His arguments are to be further evaluated for its strengths and weaknesses as he tries to counter a belief with a long history particularly, in religion.
There is arguments against the idea of reincarnation found in “negative evidence from out-of-body experiences that is not considered by New Age proponents, and the idea of reincarnation has been weighed and found wanting.”
For everyone, young and old, death is unavoidable and the loss is felt by those close to the person who has died. Sometimes maintaining a consistent quality of care is difficult which brought me to my PICO question. Does the elderly patient at the end of life receive better continuity of care in an acute care facility or at home while utilizing a home care visiting nurse service? “End-of-life care” is the term used to refer to the support and medical care given for the period of the time surrounding death. The quality of this care should be seamless weather in a hospital or at home.
Education is a biopower as it is responsible for deciding life and death within a population (Ruglis,
The concept of life after death has been around practically as long as life itself. Our beliefs about life after death can have a profound effect on our attitudes toward life. Most individual's beliefs about life after death are directly related to their cultural or religious affiliations. According to Montagu, "Of all the many forms which natural religion has assumed none probably has exerted so deep and far reaching an influence on human life as the belief in immortality" (1955, p.15).
Phaedo – the existence and nature of the afterlife and the immortality and reincarnation of the soul