Billions upon billions...
Or how "it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans" in this truly endless universe...
"Modern science's mechanistic conception of nature has generally been taken for granted as the basis for any realistic experience of the world. Contemporary physics and depth psychology both reveal, however, that this assumption, and the dualistic worldview it supports, is ultimately a selective construct of the human mind, conditioned by its own unconscious processes. In its passage through a landscape lush with symbols, the inner kora represents a movement inward toward a more participatory and empathic consciousness in which imagination reveals forms of awareness and layers of reality hidden to the objectifying mind...
“On a fundamental level, the world conforms to our inner vision, just as chemicals that bind with certain receptors in the brain alter how we see. Pilgrimage, in this sense, becomes a journey from ordinary perception into full consciousness of our interpretive role in determining reality, to recognize, as Padmasambhava states, that “all phenomenon are, in essence, the magical display of the mind...
“In distinction from the prosaic descriptions of science, in which words are confined to a single, precisely rendered meaning – the hermeneutic descriptions of the neyigs invite simultaneous levels of perception. Through a poetic mode of thought and communication that Thomas Mann referred to as moon grammar, they urge the pilgrim to see beneath the surface manifestations of the landscape into an open dimension, not unlike the implicate order of quantum physics, in which all is interconnected, luminous, and unbound – a primal matrix beyond the grasp of objectifying conciousness.”
- From "The Heart of the World"
by Ian Baker
"Modern science's mechanistic conception of nature has generally been taken for granted as the basis for any realistic experience of the world. Contemporary physics and depth psychology both reveal, however, that this assumption, and the dualistic worldview it supports, is ultimately a selective construct of the human mind, conditioned by its own unconscious processes. In its passage through a landscape lush with symbols, the inner kora represents a movement inward toward a more participatory and empathic consciousness in which imagination reveals forms of awareness and layers of reality hidden to the objectifying mind...
“On a fundamental level, the world conforms to our inner vision, just as chemicals that bind with certain receptors in the brain alter how we see. Pilgrimage, in this sense, becomes a journey from ordinary perception into full consciousness of our interpretive role in determining reality, to recognize, as Padmasambhava states, that “all phenomenon are, in essence, the magical display of the mind...
“In distinction from the prosaic descriptions of science, in which words are confined to a single, precisely rendered meaning – the hermeneutic descriptions of the neyigs invite simultaneous levels of perception. Through a poetic mode of thought and communication that Thomas Mann referred to as moon grammar, they urge the pilgrim to see beneath the surface manifestations of the landscape into an open dimension, not unlike the implicate order of quantum physics, in which all is interconnected, luminous, and unbound – a primal matrix beyond the grasp of objectifying conciousness.”
- From "The Heart of the World"
by Ian Baker
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