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Unity in diversity – about a holistic approach

By Katinka - Spirituality | July 15th, 2009

Last week I ended with the conclusion that causality in this universe can best be described as pluralistic. But I could not leave it at that, because the traditional spiritual approach – in East AND West – is that there is unity behind all that diversity. Christians and Muslims call that unity God, in Vedanta [...]

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Upward, downward and pluralistic causation

By Katinka - Spirituality | July 8th, 2009

Going on with my exploration of Creative Evolution by Amit Goswami. This time I’m going to explore the basic metaphysics of his theory a bit, specifically causation. Does consciousness cause everything (Goswami)? Or matter (classic scientism)? Or something else?
Let’s start with a history of science lesson: old Newtonian physics relied on what is called a [...]

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