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By David Young, published 15/1/2009Surely if we were in fact rational beings we would learn from each other and form a human paradigm?
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You general approach reeks of behaviourism; I think a rather outdated paradigm, of itself a product of the objectivism or old science. However I do not for a minute doubt your humanity or belief in rationality, I just think that in the struggle for understanding we too often pick up the wrong tools. I am sorry also for the materialists who's very language is based on the social consensus of abstract language, a sophisticated metaphysical schema in itself.
You speak of Wolfe and the way in which language creates paradigms; more recently David Abrams in "Spell of the Sensous", suggests that the very abstraction of language from the body and its relation with the earth may to be to blame for our collective loss of integrated consciousness; there may be some truth in this.
I do however find Eckhart Tolle's comprehensive reflection on human consciousness incredibly persausive and timely.He suggests that it is our unaware investment in the abstraction of thought itself that is the primary problem. Nothing much new in this, some very old and timeless. A very lucid explanation of human immaturity and some very simple and proven tools for each of us to improve our clarity of Being human.
We can only hope that we will come to this higher state of consciousness together and in a timely manner that curtails the wastage of the wonder that is life on earth.