Trans-Materiality
By Adrian Chan-Wyles PhD
A progression of thought that agrees that there is more to
existence than vulgar individuality, and that this reality hints at a greater
understanding of being that is beyond the requirements of the individual body –
I refer to this position as ‘trans-materiality’ – and believe that through the auspices
of ‘hard science’ humanity can evolve to transcend the need to limit legitimate
understanding to a basic ‘cause and effect’, whilst not necessarily abandoning
the practice of the empirical sciences.
Hard science is a ‘siddhi’ (i.e. evolved spiritual power) of the mind
that through its limitation to the observation of the behaviour of matter,
takes human perception beyond its own premise solely through its technological
achievements.
The internet, for example, has changed human consciousness and functionality, and yet the computer technology upon which its presence is premised, is entirely the product of a science that limits its operating criterion to the measure of matter and nothing else. Space exploration is another example of how hard (empirical) science sends human beings and advanced probes into space, and in so doing explore the vast complexities associated with existence beyond the confines of this planet.
The point is that spirituality and materialism can reconcile not by one winning a victory over the other, but rather by a common ground being discovered between the two. Spirituality (intuitively) knows the immensity of the universe, whilst science sets about the (logical) proving of that immensity. The more science progresses into quantum reality and outer space travel, the more obvious and important the ancient teachings of the exploration of inner space will become. Trans-materiality is the spiritual quest freed from speculative error, and the horror of limiting everything to a vulgar materiality.
“So while Buddhism holds that the person is a psycho-physical unit (namarupa), it does not subscribe to the Identity Hypothesis that the mind and the body are one and the same entity or to the Dualistic Hypothesis that the mind and the body are entirely different.”
(The Message of the Buddha By KN Jayatilleke, Chapter 12 – The Case for the Buddhist Theory of Karma and Survival – Page 165)
“The more deeply we go back into history, the more does the individual, and hence also the producing individual, appear as dependent, as belonging to a greater whole: in a still quite natural way in a family and in the family expounded into the clan [Stamm]; then later in the various forms of communal society arising out of the antithesis and fusions of the clans. Only in the eighteenth century, in ‘civil society’, do the various forms of social connectedness confront the individual as a mere means towards his private purposes, as external necessity.”
(Grundrisse: By Karl Marx, Chapter 1 (Introduction) – Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange, Circulation – Page 84)
“It is my personal opinion that in the science of the future reality will neither be ‘psychic’ nor ‘physical’ but somehow both and somehow neither.” (Wolfgang Pauli – Quantum Pioneer)
(Supernormal – Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities: By Dean Radin PhD – Page XV)
©opyright: Adrian Chan-Wyles (ShiDaDao) 2015.
The internet, for example, has changed human consciousness and functionality, and yet the computer technology upon which its presence is premised, is entirely the product of a science that limits its operating criterion to the measure of matter and nothing else. Space exploration is another example of how hard (empirical) science sends human beings and advanced probes into space, and in so doing explore the vast complexities associated with existence beyond the confines of this planet.
The point is that spirituality and materialism can reconcile not by one winning a victory over the other, but rather by a common ground being discovered between the two. Spirituality (intuitively) knows the immensity of the universe, whilst science sets about the (logical) proving of that immensity. The more science progresses into quantum reality and outer space travel, the more obvious and important the ancient teachings of the exploration of inner space will become. Trans-materiality is the spiritual quest freed from speculative error, and the horror of limiting everything to a vulgar materiality.
“So while Buddhism holds that the person is a psycho-physical unit (namarupa), it does not subscribe to the Identity Hypothesis that the mind and the body are one and the same entity or to the Dualistic Hypothesis that the mind and the body are entirely different.”
(The Message of the Buddha By KN Jayatilleke, Chapter 12 – The Case for the Buddhist Theory of Karma and Survival – Page 165)
“The more deeply we go back into history, the more does the individual, and hence also the producing individual, appear as dependent, as belonging to a greater whole: in a still quite natural way in a family and in the family expounded into the clan [Stamm]; then later in the various forms of communal society arising out of the antithesis and fusions of the clans. Only in the eighteenth century, in ‘civil society’, do the various forms of social connectedness confront the individual as a mere means towards his private purposes, as external necessity.”
(Grundrisse: By Karl Marx, Chapter 1 (Introduction) – Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange, Circulation – Page 84)
“It is my personal opinion that in the science of the future reality will neither be ‘psychic’ nor ‘physical’ but somehow both and somehow neither.” (Wolfgang Pauli – Quantum Pioneer)
(Supernormal – Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities: By Dean Radin PhD – Page XV)
©opyright: Adrian Chan-Wyles (ShiDaDao) 2015.