tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595377920075277072.post5398970184906382260..comments2024-03-16T18:25:58.508+00:00Comments on Andy Letcher: Homo narransAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03200561583631896799noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595377920075277072.post-79593056398895098242012-04-20T02:24:30.488+01:002012-04-20T02:24:30.488+01:00I've always found it curious too, that we have...I've always found it curious too, that we have absolute faith that we puny little humans know for sure how the universe works, or at least big chunks of it. I believe Isaac Newton was an Alchemist (and a Theologian) as well as a 'Scientist' (though he probably didn't make a distinction), and it seems odd that today half of what he did is revered as great scientific truth which has informed much of what we consider to be basic scientific certainties, and the other half is dismissed as superstitious poppycock. I find it hugely arrogant actually, the idea that we can be absolutely sure that what we take for granted as truth now, will remain so forever. History proves over and over again, that last year's truths become this year's silly old wives' tales (with all apologies to real old wives, who are often proved to have been right all along!).A mermaid in the attichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01139858546037879539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5595377920075277072.post-90607670039272586452012-04-19T17:32:58.985+01:002012-04-19T17:32:58.985+01:00Great post Andy, and yet again one that echoes tho...Great post Andy, and yet again one that echoes thoughts I've been having lately. Science <i>is</i> a religion! I imagine you felt much like someone a few hundred years back brought up to belive with concrete certainty any of the Biblical "facts" would have felt on beginning to realise it was just a "story".<br /><br />I wonder if you've read the wonderful book by Patrick Harpur - "The Philosopher's Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination"? It touches on many of these ideas, and weaves in alchemy and myth and science, and looks at that "in-between" way of looking at things that the shamanic worldview has. He talks about the fluctuations between magical and literal thinking our society has gone through...Rima Staineshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10044701472535300254noreply@blogger.com