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Return to E-mail Discussion page Next in thread> Hey all, > In the Living Today section of the Oregonian on June 18 (I've been out of > town) there was an article about a friend of mine, Terry Kem, nature > educator. The last paragraph from the article speaks to the quote from June > 19: "The reason that nature is so beautiful at teaching is that nature is > totally honest," Kem continues. "there's no attitude in it, or ego, or the > things we have to deal with in the real world. We can see without judgement > and with total awareness. And that can run into every aspect of your life. > It's the way we're meant to walk on the earth." > This also runs into the hot subject, well settled in my opinion by Chris and > Maya. We're all talking about interpreting nature, scientists and TT > practitioners and idol worshippers. I think Terry is saying you observe > nature with an open heart, and you integrate what you've learned into your > life. The latter is what scientists often forget about, or they think it > means you use the resulting material product. I think a person needs to > experience that information, with as much focus, as many of the senses, and > plenty of imagination, then it will burn into your personal cosmology. I > think this was part of Einstein's success. Through opening up to and > exploring the processes of his own perception, he realized aspects of > thought like imagination and spirit for example, that our scientific world > has given the boot, work. > Maybe you're all familiar with the fact that Einstein used 15% of his > brain while the ave. American of the time used aprox 7% (and it's going down > fast). The rest of the story is that domestic animals use 40% and wild > animals use 100% and a band of nomadic hunter gatherer Australian Aborigines > use an ave 60%. Now it's time for another quote: > > "I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid > and self-contain'd > I stand and look at them long and long. > > They do not sweat and whine about their condition, > They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, > They do not make me sick discussing their duty to god, > Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania > of owning things, > No one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands > of years ago, > No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth." > > Walt Whitman > > Trust me, I'm not saying we should become wild animals, but maybe some of > that good stuff can rub off on us if we change our perception and > relationship to nature a little, like Einstein did. > One more quote goes something very roughly like this: > > "God protect me from those who think only with their minds." > > W.B. Yeats > > Thanks, and what do you think? Jacob > >> From: Science Integration Institute <info@scienceintegration.org> >> To: SII listserv post <science@lists.pdx.edu> >> Subject: quote of the week >> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 11:12:18 -0700 >> >> >> "We believe that the experimental dialogue is an irreversible acquisition >> of >> human culture. It actually provides a guarantee that when nature is >> explored by man it is treated as an independent being. It forms the basis >> of the communicable and reproducible nature of scientific results. However >> partially nature is allowed to speak, once it has expressed itself, there >> is >> no further dissent: nature never lies." >> >> - Prigogine and Stengers, "Order Out of Chaos," p. 44 >> >> -- >> ********************************* >> * Science Integration Institute * >> * info@scienceintegration.org * >> * (503) 848-0280 * >> * www.scienceintegration.org * >> * 1971 SE 73rd Ave. * >> * Hillsboro, OR 97123 * >> ********************************* |
