tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post2002830288807751959..comments2023-02-08T03:16:24.937-05:00Comments on Saturday Morning @ The Story-of- Everything Place: Reason? Or the Whole Life Experience?John Kotrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471048328678222796noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-5739793337349547572008-05-23T21:02:00.000-04:002008-05-23T21:02:00.000-04:00It is tragic we humans have not recognized the imp...It is tragic we humans have not recognized the importance of looking at familiar things, obvious things, and things already known to us. Analyzing things we already know is a must if, like Socrates, we are to ever know the self. There is a basis, a very solid basis, given to us to examine familiar things. These are prominent names and include Oliver Wendell Holmes JR., who wrote, "we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure." Alfred North Whitehead wrote that "familiar things happen and mankind does not bother about them." George Bernard Shaw gave us, "No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious." Psychologist Gustav Ichheiser's words echo those of others, "Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which is taken for granted." Hegel said, "Because it's familiar, a thing remains unknown." Twenty-five hundred years ago Heraclitus wisely spoke to us with these words: the unapparent connection is more powerful than the apparent one. We, each of us individually, from within the self, must look at the familiar, the obvious and the known in order to reach what has been termed as ultimate reality. Science and religion do, do, do come together. In the realm of consciousness, science asks questions and with faith, insight arrives in time. Yes, science and religion are both needed to arrive at the insight we seek. <BR/> <BR/>Emmanuel J. KaravousanosAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com