Gathering my Wits
An intuitive feel through my many stacks of books.
I promised in “2023 Crises…” that I would start this journey by giving you a sense of the range of subjects I am noticing synchronicities between and among. For my own sanity, I have loaded onto a rolling cart, a goodly amount of the books I have gathered around me. I can see from here Ilia Delio, David Bohm, Teilhard de Chardin, Rebecca Solnit, Brian Greene, Kabir Edmund Helminski, CG Jung, Al Gore, Paramahansa Yogananda, and several Bibles. Have I read all of these? No.
I have discovered a truism in my life: when I go to the bookstore (or Biblio.com, or B&N.com) I usually go looking for a particular book. I end up getting 4 books—the one I went for, plus a book I really did need to read right then, and two more that indicated they must go home with me to sit on my bookshelf until the day comes when they are recommended but I have no money. It happens.
As I gathered the books, I came across Bibles and journals that I had tucked articles into—articles likely printed from the internet. In my copy of “The Way, the Living Bible” which I read like a novel during high school and the semester’s break before college, I found “Synchronicity — extracted from ‘Jung and Astrology',” by Maggie Hyde; two articles on “Inanna: the Sumerian Goddess’s Hero’s Journey;” and an excerpt from the book “How Creativity Rules the World” by Mario Brito, titled “Empathy is the Lifeblood of Creativity. Here’s how Artists like Delacroix to Mickalene Thomas have Channelled it in Their Work.”
Tucked into one of my many journals, this one titled “My Spiritual Identity and Notes for The Books,” I have a printout of Louise Hay’s “The List — Emotional and Mental causes of Illness.” Between Louise Hay and The Way, was “The Christology of Pierre de Chardin” from something called ‘Robertson Work;’ “Teilhard’s Vision” printed without attribution (I must stop doing that); what I believe to be the preface to Teilhard’s “The Phenomenon of Man;” and (ooops) another essay on Teilhard orphaned from any attribution but which I suspect to be written by Ilia Delio.
Then queued up on my Kindle is “The One - How an Ancient Idea Holds the Future of Physics” with this as my recently highlighted quote:
According to Bohr’s and Heisenberg’s Copenhagen interpretation, quantum mechanics was no longer a theory about nature. It was a theory about the experimentalist’s knowledge about nature: a humanities concept rather than science.
Päs, Heinrich. The One (p. 44). Basic Books. Kindle Edition.
In that one quote, I find the thesis of my inquiry: Does a humanities concept hold the truth of How we are, and perhaps even Why we are, better than science?
Stay tuned…