In 1939 William Sutherland, a practicing Doctor of Osteopathy, announced his discovery that the structures of the central nervous system, like the heart or like the way we breathe, expand and contract in rhythmic motion. He called it “primary respiration” and claimed that the proper functioning of this pulsation was essential to life and health.… Continue reading The Deepest Rhythms in Your Body
Month: May 2023
God Makes Makers
Evolutionary theology, a new post-Darwinian way of thinking about God, proposes two ideas: first, God does not create all at once, or once and for all. God creates through a process that meanders over vast stretches of time: by evolution. And, second, rather than creating directly by divine fiat, God co-creates through persuasion or evocation—by… Continue reading God Makes Makers
It’s Open and Close, Right Under Your Nose
Did you ever stop and wonder why you have two nostrils instead of one? Science has long been aware of a nasal “dominance” that alternates back and forth between the right and the left nostrils. An increase, for example, of blood circulation to the right nostril causes a tumescence, or swelling, of internal structures in… Continue reading It’s Open and Close, Right Under Your Nose
Jetzterday
Process thought talks about “the presence of the past” and scientist Rupert Sheldrake has written a book with that title. In William Faulkner’s novel, Requiem for a Nun, Gavin Stevens says: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” In light of this, imagine my wonder at a word that, out of the blue, fluttered… Continue reading Jetzterday
My Visit with Georgia O’Keeffe
One day in the summer of 1965 I was having coffee with three friends at the Three Cities of Spain restaurant on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. The conversation turned to art, and then to the artist Georgia O’Keeffe who, we knew, lived up near Abiquiu on Ghost Ranch. One of us, I don’t remember… Continue reading My Visit with Georgia O’Keeffe
Can Mathematics Prove the Existence of God?
In David Griffin’s book, God Exists but Gawd Does Not, the seventh chapter is called “Mathematics.” It’s the longest chapter in the book, and over its 40 pages Griffin presents his case that the reality and efficacy of mathematics provide a strong argument for the existence of God. He begins by defending Platonic realism that… Continue reading Can Mathematics Prove the Existence of God?
Preface to The Unity of Being
Charles Hartshorne’s The Unity of Being The Unity of Being is Charles Hartshorne’s doctoral dissertation presented at Harvard University in 1923. This first Post is the Digest, or Preface. The dissertation is organized in two Parts with fourteen Sections. Fourteen separate Posts will present the fourteen individual Sections with a final Post that lists the… Continue reading Preface to The Unity of Being
Table of Contents
PART I.INTRODUCTION SECTION 1. Preliminary Definitions 1. Being and Monism 2. Whole and Part 3. The Absolute SECTION 2. Historical Affiliations of Teleological Monism 1. The Monism of Plato 2. Later Monistic Arguments 3. Hegel’s Argument 4. Teleological Monism 5. Spinoza 6. Kant 7. Royce 8. Conclusion SECTION 3. Monism and Present Controversy 1. The Persistence of Monism 2. Pluralistic Objections 3. Value of Monism 4. Monism… Continue reading Table of Contents
Part I Section 1
The Unity of Being Part I Section 1 Introduction [1] Section 1 Preliminary Definitions and Discussions of Terms 1. Being and Monism. The purpose of this study is to defend a certain type of Monism. This term, like, we are tempted to say, almost all terms in philosophy, has occasioned so much difficulty and misunderstanding… Continue reading Part I Section 1
Part I Section 2
The Unity of Being Part I Section 2 [8] Section 2 Historical Affiliations of The Theory of Teleological Monism 1. The Monism of Plato. If philosophy may be said to have a tradition, then that tradition assuredly is more nearly summed up in the conception of Immaterial or Spiritual Monism than in any other. Indeed… Continue reading Part I Section 2