The focus on left brain learning and the neglect and denial of the importance of the right starts early. It is like a tree that has one side in sunlight and the other in darkness. Undeveloped. Unbalanced. The tree might mistake this for the normal state of a healthy tree. Perhaps that is a poor metaphor for what results from social and cultural programing.
The pervasive metaphor of everything-as-mechanism is rarely, if ever, interrogated, and indeed leads directly to the imperative that everything that is not obviously mechanism - biology, psychology, society - be engineered to more closely resemble mechanism. This is implicit in terminology such as 'social engineering' or 'human resources'. This reduction of humanity to mere life, and reduction of life to mere mechanism, was identified by the mystic Rudolph Steiner as one of the three principle demonic influences, what he termed the Ahrimanic.
It seems to me that a way out of this prison is to deploy a different metaphor: everything-as-spirit (or consciousness or whatever term one prefers). It may be notable that the Japanese, who have a deep cultural influence from the animistic worldview of Shintoism that ascribes spirit even to 'inanimate' objects, have proved somewhat more resistant to the coronavirus mass psychosis than most other countries. Even their science fiction, filled with transhumanist themes such as cyborgs and giant robot suits, is suggestive of making machines more organic, rather than making life more mechanical.
At the level of fundamental physics, much of the 'mysterious' behavior of quantum systems - uncertainty, observer effects, and the like - is really only bizarre if one insists that subatomic particles are dumb matter. If one instead assumes, as Leibniz did in his Monadologie, that the fundamental particles are possessed of the basic elements of consciousness, awareness, and free will, their behavior becomes perfectly sensible. From such a foundation an entirely different worldview emerges. It speaks to the monomaniacal dedication of the left-brain insistence on a mechanical universe that, despite the plethora of interpretations of quantum mechanics, the suggestion that electrons might have tiny minds is never even entertained.
The focus on left brain learning and the neglect and denial of the importance of the right starts early. It is like a tree that has one side in sunlight and the other in darkness. Undeveloped. Unbalanced. The tree might mistake this for the normal state of a healthy tree. Perhaps that is a poor metaphor for what results from social and cultural programing.
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The pervasive metaphor of everything-as-mechanism is rarely, if ever, interrogated, and indeed leads directly to the imperative that everything that is not obviously mechanism - biology, psychology, society - be engineered to more closely resemble mechanism. This is implicit in terminology such as 'social engineering' or 'human resources'. This reduction of humanity to mere life, and reduction of life to mere mechanism, was identified by the mystic Rudolph Steiner as one of the three principle demonic influences, what he termed the Ahrimanic.
It seems to me that a way out of this prison is to deploy a different metaphor: everything-as-spirit (or consciousness or whatever term one prefers). It may be notable that the Japanese, who have a deep cultural influence from the animistic worldview of Shintoism that ascribes spirit even to 'inanimate' objects, have proved somewhat more resistant to the coronavirus mass psychosis than most other countries. Even their science fiction, filled with transhumanist themes such as cyborgs and giant robot suits, is suggestive of making machines more organic, rather than making life more mechanical.
At the level of fundamental physics, much of the 'mysterious' behavior of quantum systems - uncertainty, observer effects, and the like - is really only bizarre if one insists that subatomic particles are dumb matter. If one instead assumes, as Leibniz did in his Monadologie, that the fundamental particles are possessed of the basic elements of consciousness, awareness, and free will, their behavior becomes perfectly sensible. From such a foundation an entirely different worldview emerges. It speaks to the monomaniacal dedication of the left-brain insistence on a mechanical universe that, despite the plethora of interpretations of quantum mechanics, the suggestion that electrons might have tiny minds is never even entertained.