[Vision2020] About Evidence

[Joe Campbell]

Thanks. Joe

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Concerning the question of Einstein's pantheism, consider that he wrote this:
>
> "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony
> of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and
> actions of human beings."
>
> And:
>
> "A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part
> limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and
> feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical
> delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
> restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
> persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the
> prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
> creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a
> human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they
> have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a
> substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive."
>
> The latter extract was written in 1954, 24 years after the extract
> that you provided in which he wrote that, "I do not know if I can
> define myself as a Pantheist."
>
> Apparently, he came to a decision in those intervening years, as the
> latter profession -- written shortly before he died -- is clearly
> pantheistic.
>
> pan·the·ism
> noun /ˈpanTHēˌizəm/
>
> the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena
> (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the
> universe as a manifestation of God
>
> Chas