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Types of Personal Views
Today the talk is about monism which is the view that everything either is derived from a single thing, or identical to that single thing. Many forms of metaphysical thought actually qualify as monistic in structure. Some examples from the east being Taoism and Wuxing. Well, I suppose from the view of monism all metaphysical…
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Hitch in Monistic Thinking
The core hitch in monistic thinking is (if there is only one thing) why do there appear to be many things? And if there was only one thing that gave rise to many other things, how did this happen and what does it mean to individual things? Fragmentation? Like light through different planes of a…
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Breathing God Into the World
The brain only does one thing, unify or summarize. It’s a one trick pony really. This has even been proven in the lab, even complex tasks are processed as unitary pictures or representations. So our brain pushes us to monism? Indeed it does, and since this is what it naturally does it’s fine to let…
Category: Monism
Everything either is derived from a single thing or identical to that single thing. Monism is recursive, thus the classical conclusion that it’s turtles all the way down.
“The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.” Giordano Bruno, in De immenso (1591)
“Like bubbles in the water, the worlds rise, exist and dissolve in the Supreme Self, which is the material cause and the prop of everything.” Adi Shankara, in Atma Bodha