What is the stuff of life? Any answer is going to have to be all encompassing isn’t it, inclusive of every possible possibility, and I don’t know if that is at all possible. I am interested by the phenomena of the human arts becoming sciences. From sociology to psychology, anthropology to mythology. We have put ourselves into a position where we need to prove anything and everything unswervingly from a position of objective reality. Whose objective reality I wonder. The age of reason has taken us out of life and in to the mechanics of it. We have created a substitution to our superstitions of bygone eras as rigid as the theologies we wanted to escape from.
So we understand that e=mc2, and that all matter is compiled of mainly space mixed up with subatomic particles. What I want to know is what moves the whole show. I see title after title expounding the theory of no God. I see sociology proving that the human condition comes from everything that happens upon everything that happens. Psychology and psychiatry reach for an ability to fix everyone as though they are broken and pop them nice and tidy back in to normal society, well adjusted and contributing.
Then the new age of spiritual teachings pits one idea against the next: magic against logic, soul against ego, God against Goddess. What are we doing to ourselves? What is the stuff of life that all of these variant ideas and forms are trying to ply their trade in? What is the common denominator in all this? It is us the human being perhaps. We are the great Mystery that we are trying to unravel. The idea it seems to me all of these sciences are engaged in is how does life become, and support itself– as life. What underpins it all, and what is it as a medium that we inhabit?
I do hope that The Mystery remains just that. Where are the most fantastic leaps being taken? What I propose is this. It is our consciousness that asks the question, so perhaps that is the stuff we seek.
Phillip C Gordon Brisbane 2008