tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post3814111884800212230..comments2023-02-08T03:16:24.937-05:00Comments on Saturday Morning @ The Story-of- Everything Place: What Happened in the MeadowJohn Kotrehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02471048328678222796noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-53095616312860794842008-07-19T18:50:00.000-04:002008-07-19T18:50:00.000-04:00I went to Fordham University in 1975 to study worl...I went to Fordham University in 1975 to study world religions and spirituality.There I met an incredible man named Thomas Berry. I ended up studying the Universe and religions as expressions of a numinous process that both traditional religionists and scientists have missed. Why? Many reasons. Check the human brain both a product of this process and a means that it has devised to become conscious of itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1228648840567624890.post-48740062670622786532008-06-26T20:14:00.000-04:002008-06-26T20:14:00.000-04:00It looks like the Japanese believed that matter is...It looks like the Japanese believed that matter is infused with spirit and science is even brought in to explain. Check out NOVA's 'Secrets of the Samurai Sword:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/samurai/<BR/>Parallel to this in the West we had alchemy which again was matter infused with spirit which led to the qualitative sciences such as chemistry.Mark A. Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17778645909479260869noreply@blogger.com