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	<title>Comments on: On Duality</title>
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		<title>By: poeticinterconnections</title>
		<link>http://poeticinterconnections.org/2008/11/10/on-duality/comment-page-1/#comment-49</link>
		<dc:creator>poeticinterconnections</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for your comment, Rook. I never meant to imply anything was gray—all our best spiritual systems endorse an integration of opposites that transcends them both, rather than simply mixing them. That synthesis is always where the mystery always lies... I couldn&#039;t agree with you more!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your comment, Rook. I never meant to imply anything was gray—all our best spiritual systems endorse an integration of opposites that transcends them both, rather than simply mixing them. That synthesis is always where the mystery always lies&#8230; I couldn&#8217;t agree with you more!</p>
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		<title>By: Rook</title>
		<link>http://poeticinterconnections.org/2008/11/10/on-duality/comment-page-1/#comment-48</link>
		<dc:creator>Rook</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree all is gray - both/and. But to me the either/or (eg egg or sperm - or yin and yang) are transformed into something different -something both and - a new human or the Tao (using the examples above) - and these are mysteries, which cannot be understood or described</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree all is gray &#8211; both/and. But to me the either/or (eg egg or sperm &#8211; or yin and yang) are transformed into something different -something both and &#8211; a new human or the Tao (using the examples above) &#8211; and these are mysteries, which cannot be understood or described</p>
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		<title>By: poeticinterconnections</title>
		<link>http://poeticinterconnections.org/2008/11/10/on-duality/comment-page-1/#comment-24</link>
		<dc:creator>poeticinterconnections</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for your comments! &quot;The Alphabet Versus the Goddess&quot; is one of my favorite books. Shlain&#039;s proposal that Siddhartha Gautama—the original Buddha—may have developed his belief that birth causes suffering because his own mother died bearing him blew my mind. Such a bold and fascinating conjecture.

Your thoughts about modern physics are very much in line with what this blog will be continually exploring... Wave/particle duality is a breathtaking discovery—I believe it should be required knowledge. Ethics follow easily from entanglement.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for your comments! &#8220;The Alphabet Versus the Goddess&#8221; is one of my favorite books. Shlain&#8217;s proposal that Siddhartha Gautama—the original Buddha—may have developed his belief that birth causes suffering because his own mother died bearing him blew my mind. Such a bold and fascinating conjecture.</p>
<p>Your thoughts about modern physics are very much in line with what this blog will be continually exploring&#8230; Wave/particle duality is a breathtaking discovery—I believe it should be required knowledge. Ethics follow easily from entanglement.</p>
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		<title>By: L.M.</title>
		<link>http://poeticinterconnections.org/2008/11/10/on-duality/comment-page-1/#comment-20</link>
		<dc:creator>L.M.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You mentioned that the opposites in our world are &quot;seemingly&quot; disparate.  Two books that share that point of view:

A.  * Art &amp; Physics:  Parallel Visions in Space, Time &amp; Light * by Leonard Shlain

   The author&#039;s thesis is that artists somehow anticipate advances in science *even though they have no knowledge or exposure to it*!  For example, images in post-modern art, especially cubism, seem to predict what the world would like close to the speed of light!  Very intriguing.

B.  *The Alphabet versus the Goddess * by Leonard Shlain 

   This books looks at how either the male or female dominates depending on whether the cultural embraces the oral/creative/right-brain or the written/analytic/left-brain.  Another fascinating read, one which I think you would like given your discussion of duality.

   Finally, some thoughts on your rejection of strict duality and your embracing of holism (&quot;both/and&quot;).  Even theoretical physics, the accepted father of the &quot;hard&quot; sciences, has had to give up the notion of either/or in the face of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.  Light is both a particle and a wave, depending.  And matter and be a wave and a particle, depending.  Time, mass, and length depend on frame of reference, none of which are privileged.  And general relativity predicts black holes, where all of the normal rules of physics, including causality, break down.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You mentioned that the opposites in our world are &#8220;seemingly&#8221; disparate.  Two books that share that point of view:</p>
<p>A.  * Art &amp; Physics:  Parallel Visions in Space, Time &amp; Light * by Leonard Shlain</p>
<p>   The author&#8217;s thesis is that artists somehow anticipate advances in science *even though they have no knowledge or exposure to it*!  For example, images in post-modern art, especially cubism, seem to predict what the world would like close to the speed of light!  Very intriguing.</p>
<p>B.  *The Alphabet versus the Goddess * by Leonard Shlain </p>
<p>   This books looks at how either the male or female dominates depending on whether the cultural embraces the oral/creative/right-brain or the written/analytic/left-brain.  Another fascinating read, one which I think you would like given your discussion of duality.</p>
<p>   Finally, some thoughts on your rejection of strict duality and your embracing of holism (&#8220;both/and&#8221;).  Even theoretical physics, the accepted father of the &#8220;hard&#8221; sciences, has had to give up the notion of either/or in the face of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.  Light is both a particle and a wave, depending.  And matter and be a wave and a particle, depending.  Time, mass, and length depend on frame of reference, none of which are privileged.  And general relativity predicts black holes, where all of the normal rules of physics, including causality, break down.</p>
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		<title>By: Sistah D</title>
		<link>http://poeticinterconnections.org/2008/11/10/on-duality/comment-page-1/#comment-11</link>
		<dc:creator>Sistah D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh grasshopper!

What love this is.  A way of embracing yourself and your reader&#039;s at the same time,  The ultimate &#039;both/and&#039; expression.  The dual dance described most deliciously.

Because you are who you are you seem to be describing both science and spirit.  Perhaps we&#039;ll enjoy creating a new word which would encompass both concepts.

Love,
Sistah D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh grasshopper!</p>
<p>What love this is.  A way of embracing yourself and your reader&#8217;s at the same time,  The ultimate &#8216;both/and&#8217; expression.  The dual dance described most deliciously.</p>
<p>Because you are who you are you seem to be describing both science and spirit.  Perhaps we&#8217;ll enjoy creating a new word which would encompass both concepts.</p>
<p>Love,<br />
Sistah D</p>
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