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“The view that good and evil are spiritual forces outside us, and that man is caught in the conflict between them, is more bearable by far than the insight that the opposites are the ineradicable and indispensable preconditions of all psychic life.”

Carl Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis

“Unfortunately there is no doubt about the fact that man is, as a whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Every one carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is...Man’s struggles with anti-social tendencies...as suppression, a conscious moral choice....you cannot pump morality into a system where it is not indigenous…"

New York Times, 1937 on Carl Jung's arrival to America

"The sturdy capitalist, no matter how deep and square on blocks of Quincy granite he lays the foundations of his banking-house or Exchange, must set it, at last, not on a cube corresponding to the
angles of his structure, but on a mass of unknown materials and solidity, red-hot or white-hot, perhaps at the core, which rounds off
to an almost perfect sphericity, and lies floating in soft air, and goes spinning away, dragging bank and banker with it at a rate of thousands of miles the hour, he knows not whither" - Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Lecture read at the Masonic Temple, Boston,1842

Human beings have always built the tallest building in their towns or cities as a symbol of the dominant theme or myth of their culture.

State Street Bank - Photo by Ed Reither

The Center of the World

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O my friend, why do you who are a citizen of the great and mighty and sophospolis (city) care so much about laying up the greatest amount of money and honor [tīmē] and reputation, and so little about sophiā and truth [alēthēs] and the greatest improvement of the soul [psūkhē].

Plato, The Apology of Socrates

Rare books - Houghton Library, Harvard University - Photo by Ed Reither
Rare book shelf - Houghton Library, Harvard

"Human knowing is now devoted to analytical reductionism, or the process of reducing everything to the individual human being, to human processes, to humankind in the lowest, most rudimentary or material sense."

Adi Da Samraj

Adi Da Samraj, 2006

he Memorial Church of Harvard University - photo - Ed Reither Taken from Houghton and Lamont Library yard.
Memorial Church - Harvard - photo by Ed Reither

Society is in our day the prey of a deadly disease, of a moral canker, which threatens it with destruction. This disease is materialism.

Louis Figuier, 1872

"That vast literature of proofs of God's existence drawn from the order of nature, which a century ago seemed so overwhelmingly convincing, to-day does little more than gather dust in libraries, for the simple reason that our generation has ceased to believe in the kind of God it argued for."

Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, Lecture III

"When we consider what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations between them."

Alfred North Whitehead, 1925

Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell - Authors of Principia Mathematica, the landmark work in formal logic - showing how the truths of mathematics could be derived from logic - first published in three volumes in 1910, 1912 and 1913.

"We are perhaps living in the last age of man, and, if so, it is to science that we will owe its extinction."

Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society - 1951

Humanity is both shrouded and instructed by the vast, collective mind of cultural media. Each individual is simultaneously minimized and expanded by the global spectacle of ideas. In our time, when the thoughts of every corner of the Earth converge for the first time in history—when all absolute dogmas find themselves casually juxtaposed, judged like a gathering of dangerous Napoleons or mad Saviors in an asylum—the complex mind of every person is remembering itself all at once.

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Mahakala

Oṃ Hayagriva Waga Ahbiditsa Ah! 

kālo’asmi, lokakśayakṛt pravṛddhaḥ lokān samāhartum iha pravṛttaḥ

(I am time, the cause of world-destruction, mighty; come here to annihilate the worlds.)

Verse 11.32 of the Bhagavad-gita

(misquoted by Oppenheimer)

Science as Religion

"I have faith; not perhaps in the old dogmas, but in the new ones; faith in human nature; faith in science; faith in the survival of the fittest. Let us be true to our time, Mrs. Lee!"

Henry Adams, Democracy: An American Novel

As science and the philosophy of materialism progressively exclude all other forms of knowing, human beings are becoming more and more dominated by scientific and political materialism - Beezone

“We will have to do better than nature, and that’s scary”

Illustration by Peter Allen

Artificial Photosynthesis, James Franck Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago.

"Spirits that I've cited / My commands ignore"

(An AI warning)

Sorcerer's Apprentice,
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, 1797

Light Bearers

“…like Moses, we shall prove entirely faith­ful, most sacred theology will supervene to inspire us with redoubled ecstasy. For, raised to the most eminent height of the­ology, whence we shall be able to measure with the rod of indivisible eternity all things that are and that have been; and, grasping the primordial beauty of things, like the seers of Phoebus, we shall become the winged lovers of theology. And at last, smitten by the ineffable love as by a sting, and, like the Seraphim, born outside our­selves, filled with the godhead, we shall be, no longer ourselves, but the very One who made us."

Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) by Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

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