01.17.11
Spiritual naturalism
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The question of spirituality and naturalism has been botched by Christians and science both. The natural aspect of spirituality is an ancient aspect of Indian religion’s ancient resource: Samkhya.
The legacy of ancient Samkhya with its universal naturalism might prove of help in a period of extreme reductionist materialism. Charged with materialism Samkhya is then again charged with idealism, and dualism, and shows a remarkable collation of opposites, and a distant resemblance to Kantian thinking. One problem is that this discourse has already been appropriated for any number of metaphysical speculations about cosmic involution, which don’t do justice to the original. At the point where it appears in the Bhagavad Gita it has already lost its original significance. The world of Samkhya points in principle to everything known in the ancient sutras, and this material is late in terms of our eonic Axial period, but still close to its source.
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January 18, 2011 at 12:22 pm
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