Cosmology Quotes - Page 8

• Often, when I want to read something that is satisfying to me as theology, what I actually read is string theory, or something like that - popularizations, inevitably, of scientific cosmologies - because their description of the scale of things and the intrinsic, astonishing character of reality coincides very beautifully with the most ambitious theology. It is thinking at that scale, and it is thinking that is invested with meaning in a humanly evocative form. That's theology.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Character, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The dialectical change of mind that occurs in Buddhism is not simply the assimilation of a new philosophical basis or religious basis for viewing and interpreting experience. Rather it is the complete structural revision of that which is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Buddhist, Philosophical

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• I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.

  Terence McKenna

  Believe, Thinking, Gnosis

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• Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.

  Terence McKenna

  School, Ideas, Ascending

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• Ironically, members on both sides of the debate do agree about one thing: big bang cosmology puts their position in jeopardy. The big bang poses a problem for young-earth creationists because it makes the universe billions of years old rather than thousands. Such an assertion undercuts their system at its foundation. Big bang cosmology also presents a problem for atheistic scientists because it points directly to the existence of a transcendent Creator - a fact they dare not concede.

  Hugh Ross

  Years, Earth, Facts

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• Cosmologies are made up of small snippets of physical reality that have been remodeled by society into vast cosmic deceptions.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Reality, Deception, Made

  "Reinventing Nature". Jeremy Rifkin, The Humanist Magazine, Volume 58 (p. 24), March/April 1998.

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• What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences, because it does really pertain to how we know. It really helps bring epistemology, which is how do we know what we know, out of the realm of philosophy and brings it into the realm of science.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Philosophy, Doe, Helping

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time immediately say that it was only one way of looking at it. Whenever addressing realms of Heaven or Hell, he'd also address that it was just a psychological state.

  Brad Warner

  Teacher, Buddhist, Heaven

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

  James Hillman

  Psychology, Reason, Behinds

  Source: scottlondon.com

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