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Writting a commentary on Tao Te Ching, comparing texts....
I will begin a series of essays exploring the wisdom and insight contained in the words of Lao Tzu offering my own commentary along the way....
The Rabbinic mystics saw the Divine, the universe and themselves through the lens that they created, this mystical map...
The process of expereince and thus the process of being alive as a human being. People are shaped by ideas....
Exploring the metaphor of worshiping idols....
The Map and the Territory - where does order and structure lie? Is it a figment of our imagination? Is it an a priori idea as Immanuel Kant beleives?...
For many believers their world and their worldview are built upon the premise that there is one true faith; which is of course their own. They assume One Faith = One God. I beleive it is more accurate to state Infinite Divine = infinite truths....
The Cosmos is a place of order, structure and patterns which in Chinese philosophy goes by the ‘name’/human pointer the Tao.

All things exist because there is this order/structure/pattern which is the fundamental thing...
What shapes us? Nature, Nurture and Culture....
We live not only in a physical environment but also in a symbolic environment....
There is such a thing as real magic - it is the occurance of synchronistic events....
Two value logic is the basis for our "Common Sense" - but it is a flawed system that can be taking to create the landscape of foundamentalism. To get out of that box you need to recognize the error of only having 2 values....
Thinking about reading - A continuum of types of Non-Ficition books....
Laying out a foundation for philosophic, metaphysic and religous discussion....