[Main Blog Post] The Open-Minded Materialist's Gentle Introduction to Spirituality

[jprussell]

I've written my first "full" blog post of the year and posted it to my main blog here. If you have any thoughts or ways I might make it better, kindly let me know by commenting here or dropping me an email!

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Re: Similar Background

[jprussell]

Thank you very much for the kind words! I'll look forward to hearing your thoughts on shamanism, as it's a field I think is likely rather relevant to my Germanic, Woden-focused interests, but there's a lot of mularkey on it out there, and it's not something JMG has had anything to do with. So a credible source would be most welcome!

Thank you for the encouragement! After reading Neal Stephenson's Anathem I tracked down some of the books on quantum physics in his list of inspirations and read them, but as a Classics and Ancient History B.A. with an MBA, I lacked much of the mathematical and scientific grounding to much follow. Since learning the occult philosophy of "everything has consciousness", I have found myself thinking back to Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics by Henry Stapp, which I more-or-less followed and found intriguing.

Also, to be clear, I am in no way "anti-science", and I agree that it is an incredibly useful tool that tells us much about the world that we wouldn't know without it. I just don't think it is well-suited to the bottom-most level of qualitative questions about values (such as "what is best in life?" "is this discovery good, bad, or some blend? what should we do with it?") - I don't think you can arrive at answers to those empirically.