Comments on: Some thoughts on The Universe in a Single Atom http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/2007/04/03/some-thoughts-on-the-universe-in-a-single-atom/ exploring life in all its variety Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:28:31 -0500 hourly 1 By: Todd Green http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/2007/04/03/some-thoughts-on-the-universe-in-a-single-atom/comment-page-1/#comment-1298 Todd Green Fri, 18 May 2007 02:31:22 +0000 http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/?p=157#comment-1298 <i>"I refer to the unknown, and our ability or inability to find peace with the fact that so much is still unknown.</i> Believing that we do know keeps the mind from enjoying the peace and joy found in wondering and fosters the fear that we may be wrong. The title of the book, <i>The Universe in a Single Atom</i>, is a metaphor for as close to expressing the truth without claiming to know anything while leaving it all to be contemplated in fact transcendent joy. Thinking one may not know is much more liberating and educational that believing in arguable facts, but then what would academia have to do then. Fear of not knowing is the motivation for drawing conclusions which, logic tells us, deny far more than they accept by being the ends of thinking or admitting to new contradictory experience. Maybe. Robert Anton Wilson's <i>Maybe Logic</i> is a wonderful parallel to the Dali Lama's book. “I refer to the unknown, and our ability or inability to find peace with the fact that so much is still unknown.

Believing that we do know keeps the mind from enjoying the peace and joy found in wondering and fosters the fear that we may be wrong. The title of the book, The Universe in a Single Atom, is a metaphor for as close to expressing the truth without claiming to know anything while leaving it all to be contemplated in fact transcendent joy. Thinking one may not know is much more liberating and educational that believing in arguable facts, but then what would academia have to do then. Fear of not knowing is the motivation for drawing conclusions which, logic tells us, deny far more than they accept by being the ends of thinking or admitting to new contradictory experience. Maybe.

Robert Anton Wilson’s Maybe Logic is a wonderful parallel to the Dali Lama’s book.

]]> By: Marion http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/2007/04/03/some-thoughts-on-the-universe-in-a-single-atom/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 Marion Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:24:41 +0000 http://spiritblooms.gaiastream.com/?p=157#comment-1019 Oh, wow, what a great post! I admire your reading The Universe in a Single Atom...it would not be an easy read for myself. I have great difficulty, as you say, wrapping my mind around this kind of thing. I get my partner to read these books, and explain the premise to me in terms I can understand, lol! And you've done the same...thank you! Oh, wow, what a great post! I admire your reading The Universe in a Single Atom…it would not be an easy read for myself. I have great difficulty, as you say, wrapping my mind around this kind of thing.

I get my partner to read these books, and explain the premise to me in terms I can understand, lol!

And you’ve done the same…thank you!

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