|
A common theme to many spiritual traditions I will reduce the concept of the One and the Infinite. If I may, I would like to further reduce the beauty and awe of these concepts by just saying they might be construed to mean that the "thing" we experience via our spirit is just One thing. We do not perceive it completely, however, and as such it can seem to have many parts, which differ greatly from each other. If this is so, this "thing" is also Infinite, since it is everywhere, and at all times (I'm not so sure of this). I would temper this by stating that even if it is "one", it still has structure, or perhaps I could put that better by saying that it has "texture". It varies in quality from place to place and time to time - and may even have certain localised attachments to certain physical places and times. One of the problems we encounter in trying to explain this world, or understand it, is that our natural language and language centers in the brain have evolved (culturally in the former, physically in the latter) to deal mostly with the world as we expereince it trying to survive from day to day. This language begins to have failings when it tries to strecth and wrap itself around concepts that are not represented around us, in our human time and spatial scales. There are branches of science and philosophy which suffer the safe handicap, notably in sciences involving time or spatial scales far removed from our day to day lives and in philosophical inquiry into areas where we have powerful words and concepts that interfere in our ability to be precise. Words like "I" and "am" and "god" and "MIND". |