tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750949408338221752.post2934350753924283608..comments2015-12-30T10:33:25.534+00:00Comments on Throw yourself like seed: Spiritual evolution?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01248358840390936013noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750949408338221752.post-20313299882766103022010-03-08T21:51:13.402+00:002010-03-08T21:51:13.402+00:00hmmm, lots to think about. true though that scien...hmmm, lots to think about. true though that science and spirituality are separate. spiritual questions are inherently unscientific as they are unfalsifiable/untestable.Susiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01094860109324809688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750949408338221752.post-34865423614716312482010-03-05T08:36:40.361+00:002010-03-05T08:36:40.361+00:00In my book the most recent spiritual paradigm shif...In my book the most recent spiritual paradigm shift came out of a geezer who used to mind sheep in the Middle East about 2000 years ago... as for the rest, I'm afraid it's largely vanity...uni-talianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12130575625229865792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750949408338221752.post-54407841449273770482010-03-04T11:53:20.258+00:002010-03-04T11:53:20.258+00:00The whole thing started with Teilhard de Chardin&#...The whole thing started with Teilhard de Chardin's concept of the Omega point, and was also put forward by Oberon Zell in his Gaia Theology (which he also derived in part from the process theology of AN Whitehead).<br /><br />I agree that trying to build one's spirituality on pseudo-scientific foundations is a shaky enterprise, but there's nothing wrong with deriving spiritual satisfaction from the wonder and awe of scientific discovery, and religious understanding should not conflict with science, reason or experience.Yewtreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028699564003381058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750949408338221752.post-84131056389109941422010-03-04T01:55:05.061+00:002010-03-04T01:55:05.061+00:00Remember Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Same tripe w...Remember Jonathan Livingston Seagull? Same tripe without the science soup. <br /><br />And the hugely popular "science" fiction series "Stargate SG1" where, among the various threads over the series' long life, there is a race of ancient humans from a previous evolution known alternately as "The Ancients," Alterans, or Lanteans, who evolved to the state that, with a little bit of concentration they were able to shed their mortal coils and live with god-like powers (though they refused to use them) in some scientifically un-locatable plane of existence as pure energy.<br /><br />Completely aside from the Tolle approach, evolution is unscientifically in the air...Paul Oakleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17426789386840488470noreply@blogger.com