Living at this time, but wait, – to be alive at any time in the arc of human habitation on this planet — seemed/seems hard. How else to put the matter. Living well in the “thrownness” of indifferent circumstances is a formidable challenge. That said, we “lucky” ones, recipients of higher strata of education often understand acutely, how arduous is this quest to become a happy individual.
#2
In a “world”, the first quarter of my century, I am connected to everywhere, no matter where I may be. In a remote area it is not unusual to read report of events which happened over the past twenty-four hours. Communication, logistics tools, bits of information circulate between server farms with rows of air-conditioned racks of processors, state-of-the-art “slaves”, machine fabricated of rare earth metals to sort, to move mathematized code, from server to glass fiber pathways, even to low orbit satellite, now displayed on this screen. How fast I wonder. Why – at the speed of light…
This from Rediscovery of Awe by Kirk J. Schneider Phd, chapter 8.
Ethically one of the greatest dangers of the new technology is jadedness. The more we become jaded, the less we acknowledge Mystery. The less we acknowledge Mystery, the more we lose touch with the current. The current of Mystery of the inscrutable is amazement. Whatever one wants to label this amazement – God, Love, Brahman, Nirvana, Prana, Buddha, Jesus, Creatrix, or even Randomization, Process, or Energy – it’s simply too incredible to sweep aside, downplay, or tout as nondivine. This divinity has enormous implications, even as an inscrutable divinity, perhaps especially as an inscrutable divinity….
#3
One doesn’t need a directive and definite god to feel the presence of divinity. If we begin with the inscrutable, we begin with a sense of something incomprehensible at work. We begin with awe. This sense infuses everything we do, feel, and think, and it affects all our relations to the world. If creation is amazing and incomprehensible, then everything that partakes in creation must be seen as equally amazing and incomprehensible. It follows, moreover, that everything must be treated, to the extent possible, as amazing and incomprehensible.
* Image #1 a strawberry blossom; Image #2 Cap’n Hop by jeffrey equality brooks, Stencils, sprayed automotive paint, metal flake, flocking on stretched canvas; Image #3 Untitled by Finlea, age 6 & 3/4
