It will be a beautiful day when Western science admits the validity of the pseudosciences handed down from generation to generation many centuries ago in the East. It will be a huge blow to the presumption resulting from the advance of technique, and will probably lead to the establishment of a new—and perhaps a very old—attitude towards the unknown and the irrational. In short, it will be a return to that humility without which man is unable to perceive the just measure of things.
Tag: philosophy
It Is Always Moving When We See…
It is always moving when we see the birth of a spirit that has been displaced, whether in time or space. When we look at him from a distance, we get the feeling of total injustice, of an excessive and unjustified penalty for a crime that was not committed, of a torture that only seems to obstruct him and pull him back. And it is touching to note that a little, a nothing that most people have, would make his existence significantly more pleasant. However, when we analyze his trajectory and look for the motivation for each of his steps, we realize that they are all rooted in this displacement which, deeply felt, generates a discomfort that drives action. It is therefore a productive discomfort that needs to be expressed and acted upon in order to alleviate the feeling; it is a discomfort that, in short, does not allow for accommodation.
When a New Idea Is Born…
In the arena of thought, when a new idea is born, even if it is just a new guise for an old idea, it is certain that, sooner or later, its antithesis will also emerge and spread with proportional force. The precision of this rule seems to point us to the cyclical nature of human thought: a cycle, however, which is not just a closed circle of repeating events, but, through a movement that seems to move forward and backward, expand and contract, affirm and deny, developing in a series of reasonably predictable stages, increases its own complexity and gives new nuances as time progresses. It is therefore a creative cycle that requires controversy in order to develop.
There Is an Amusing Irony in Noting That…
There is an amusing irony in noting that the result of the attempt to impose a scientific view of the world as the only acceptable one has been an exponential increase in all kinds of anti-scientific doctrines. The last two centuries have revived every mysticism that has ever been invented from the north to the south of the planet. And if any of them have not yet shown signs of a vigorous revival, it is only a matter of time. These areas are now experiencing unprecedented progress, some of them after centuries of slumber. What does this mean? The obvious: science is incapable of uttering a sentence that feeds man’s longing for meaning. The more it wants to be sovereign, the more it tries to impose itself, the more it reveals its own impotence and encourages souls in need of meaning to seek it elsewhere. It will not be long before it begins to arouse widespread laughter; then, perhaps, it will remember its true value.