Creating or Quantifying Reality – 2 different processes
Philo of Alexandria states “The mind which is in each of us is able to comprehend all other things, but has not the capability of understanding itself. For as the eye sees all other things, but cannot see itself, so also the mind perceives the nature of other things but cannot understand itself.” One scholar observed that the only way to evaluate human consciousness is by using a mirror in one sense or another. There is no approach to human consciousness that isn’t in and of itself a part of human consciousness – including materialism with its bias for quantification!
Researcher Bias: College graduates that I have encountered largely seem unaware of the many critics of materialist ideology. There is a consensus among critics of materialism (McGilChrist, Gare, Guenon, Joe Holland, Rappaport, Sheldrake) that materialism is a mechanical and valueless ideology – which would be a nihilist ideology.
1. Iain McGilChrist states that the materialist “rigid adherence” to quantification “limits and restricts” analyses
2. Rene Guenon has a more inclusive approach – Materialism is “the denial of everything that is of a supra-individual order”
3. Endorsed critique of the materialist maxim that “spirituality is intangible and beyond the senses” & so unreal which is a Definist Fallacy–Delusion. If that is the case, Death which is intangible and beyond the senses would become a figment of your imagination. – which is absurd.
4. By definition, the “supernatural” is outside the scope of scientific inquiry and so a meaningless artificial abstraction Spirituality is about people, not the supernatural. Justice Rehnquist states “It is not true if the major premise is not true!”
5. Joe Holland, an eco-social Catholic theologian, states “anti-spiritual doctrine of Scientific Materialism” – which from my research is only too true! It would seem an inescapable conclusion that “Without Spirituality” psychiatry is an unbalanced, unhealthy ideology, not science.
6, As Dr Neal said – she (and psychiatrists) has no training in “People” who have spiritual experiences (though plenty of studies of “anomalies”) My goal is to “knock out” the Materialist Fallacy-Delusion that” All spirituality is unreal” and the Materialist concept of “Supernatural” because they are a very ignorant destructive maladaptive stereotype which is based on a fiction.
Consciousness as Drive, and Evolutionary Adaptive Trait
It has become extremely questionable whether, in the flux of life, it is a genuinely worthwhile intellectual problem to seek to discover fixed and immutable ideas or absolutes. It is a more worthy intellectual task perhaps to learn to think dynamically and relationally rather than statically. – Karl Mannheim
Historically there is a connection and correlation between spiritual beliefs and social-moral order – which supports Emile Durkheim’s view of religion as the foundation of morality – that religious experiences generate shared values and beliefs that bind society together. The essay, “Myths as Symbolic Maps of Social-Moral Order” highlights the historical connection between myths and social moral order and highlights the distinction between heroic myths and myth as as social-moral order.