Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
Belief in the traditional sense, or certitude, or dogma, amounts to the grandiose delusion, "My current model" -- or grid, or map, or reality-tunnel -- "contains the whole universe and will never need to be revised." In terms of the history of science and knowledge in general, this appears absurd and arrogant to me, and I am perpetually astonished that so many people still manage to live with such a medieval attitude.
Mind is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).
It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.
The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.
It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of rhetorical strategies to hypnotize others into the state which Bernard Shaw called "barbarism" and defined as 'the belief that the laws of one's own tribe are the laws of the universe'.
Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.
There's a great universe just next door.
I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.
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