The YIN MIND ___________________________________________________________ We have many clichés and unthinking axioms, which we deploy, when we are challenged, with the deficiencies, the non-sequitor reasonings, of science, as a superstition: i.e. 'seeing is believing’ ‘I’m from Missouri’ translated as ‘observational sensing is a safe criteria for reality’. We can not safely derive truth from reasoning. We can not and should not trust words to be … [Read more...]
EVE REVERE: The Interpreter’s Overlay to Decoding Scientific Certainty
EVE REVERE: The YIN MIND – Thriving Transformation versus survival
The YIN MIND ___________________________________________________________ We need to follow a paradigm of thriving transformation, versus the defensive, protectionist, paradigm of survival. We are overshadowed by a culture of perpetuation, of continuation, of static, status quo mentality. The cry, the plea, the tactics of strategic failure are: preserve what you have versus heed what you may fail to gain. Zen, as a spiritual discipline . . . is … [Read more...]
Eve REVERE – The YIN MIND: Science, The Pursuit of Knowledge
The YIN MIND ____________________________________ The very word: “science” means precisely what is contained in and is conveyed by the phrase: “the pursuit of knowledge”. However, science is a particular set of means and a group of methods of pursuing knowledge. The axioms and the truisms of science need close examination and a very full consideration, in order to disclose and in order to reveal: embedded superstitions and concealed assumptions that are cloaked and … [Read more...]