BROKEN HYPERLINK
The link to Christopher Langen's paper is broken--apparently by Facebook. Here is a link to a webpage offering all Christopher Langen's published essays:
http://hology.org/ctmu-papers/
I'm currently reading Christopher Langen's essay on *Metareligion as the Human Singularity*, and I can relate to some of the posts already …
The link to Christopher Langen's paper is broken--apparently by Facebook. Here is a link to a webpage offering all Christopher Langen's published essays:
I'm currently reading Christopher Langen's essay on *Metareligion as the Human Singularity*, and I can relate to some of the posts already given how what Christopher Langen says about 'God' conflicts with popular ideas about God's identity. e.g. the God of the Bible. The last reference to 'God' (p. 329/ 9) says this:
"Similarly, standard theology - a metalanguage for the analysis and comparison of religions and religious conceptions of God - is dualistic as well, standing apart from the religious languages which form its content (and for that matter, from God). This implicit dualism renders standard religious and theological languages fundamentally incapable of expressing the spiritual unity of man and nature. To eliminate the dualistic separation of languages and their universes, dualism must be formally eliminated from the intrinsic structure of language."
In my non-trivial experience as a 'true believer' (leaning toward a-theism) within Christianity across cultures I have been forced to reckon with precisely this "dualistic separation" in religion AND science. (HINT: this is a natural consequence of moving directly from an -ology to a -god without a mediating -osophy.) In the first couple pages of the essay I hear an echo of the writer of Hebrews (some propose St. Paul others Barnabas etc.) who invites everyone i.e. Jew and Greek to follow Jesus outside the 'gate' of their religio-political arrangement and 'within the veil' of just such a comprehensive reality e.g. a theosophy of supratemporal totality:
Finally, I offer this: "Advaita means 'not-two.' And 'not-two' is not the same as 'merely one.' Thus, nondualism is not a monism, although Westerners often interpret it this way, because they have no other categories of thought."
BROKEN HYPERLINK
The link to Christopher Langen's paper is broken--apparently by Facebook. Here is a link to a webpage offering all Christopher Langen's published essays:
http://hology.org/ctmu-papers/
I'm currently reading Christopher Langen's essay on *Metareligion as the Human Singularity*, and I can relate to some of the posts already given how what Christopher Langen says about 'God' conflicts with popular ideas about God's identity. e.g. the God of the Bible. The last reference to 'God' (p. 329/ 9) says this:
"Similarly, standard theology - a metalanguage for the analysis and comparison of religions and religious conceptions of God - is dualistic as well, standing apart from the religious languages which form its content (and for that matter, from God). This implicit dualism renders standard religious and theological languages fundamentally incapable of expressing the spiritual unity of man and nature. To eliminate the dualistic separation of languages and their universes, dualism must be formally eliminated from the intrinsic structure of language."
In my non-trivial experience as a 'true believer' (leaning toward a-theism) within Christianity across cultures I have been forced to reckon with precisely this "dualistic separation" in religion AND science. (HINT: this is a natural consequence of moving directly from an -ology to a -god without a mediating -osophy.) In the first couple pages of the essay I hear an echo of the writer of Hebrews (some propose St. Paul others Barnabas etc.) who invites everyone i.e. Jew and Greek to follow Jesus outside the 'gate' of their religio-political arrangement and 'within the veil' of just such a comprehensive reality e.g. a theosophy of supratemporal totality:
https://jgfriesen.wordpress.com/glossary/totality/
The Flammarion Engraving has become my icon of iconoclasm:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flammarion_Woodcut#/media/File:Universum.jpg
Urbi et Orbi
Finally, I offer this: "Advaita means 'not-two.' And 'not-two' is not the same as 'merely one.' Thus, nondualism is not a monism, although Westerners often interpret it this way, because they have no other categories of thought."
https://jgfriesen.wordpress.com/glossary/advaita/