I enjoyed this piece and it brought to mind a paragraph in Matthieu Ricard's The Quantum and the Lotus. "I do not personally believe in a personified God, but rather in a pantheistic principle that is omnipresent in nature. This is somewhat akin to the views of Einstein and Spinoza. Einstein described it as follows: “The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation…. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
That’s a wonderful insight. Their reverence for a divinity that arises from an appreciation of intelligence immanent in all things finds resonance in pantheism. Drawing that connection is brilliant. The superior intelligence we seek is not in a mysterious, orchestrating God but in the small things all around us. Learning a craft like violin or pottery makes cause and effect lived and present—opening up this beautiful bridge between omniscience and science.
Beautiful, thoroughly enjoyed reading this!
I enjoyed this piece and it brought to mind a paragraph in Matthieu Ricard's The Quantum and the Lotus. "I do not personally believe in a personified God, but rather in a pantheistic principle that is omnipresent in nature. This is somewhat akin to the views of Einstein and Spinoza. Einstein described it as follows: “The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation…. His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
That’s a wonderful insight. Their reverence for a divinity that arises from an appreciation of intelligence immanent in all things finds resonance in pantheism. Drawing that connection is brilliant. The superior intelligence we seek is not in a mysterious, orchestrating God but in the small things all around us. Learning a craft like violin or pottery makes cause and effect lived and present—opening up this beautiful bridge between omniscience and science.