Tagged: the mind

Reflections on Modern Thinking

The laws of self-delusion.— When materialists reduce the soul to the body and its “laws,” they are merely admitting that they have no plausible explanation for that element of themselves without which their materialist reductionism could not exist. That is, they cannot account for their experience of themselves qua investigators of matter. They, qua investigators of matter, by definition lie outside the range...

Ideas, Language, and Communication

The classic cartoon image for discovery is a light bulb appearing above a character’s head. This is perfectly apt, and the use of light, especially a source of light, as a metaphor for the actualization of the mind, including the divine mind, is standard throughout the history of figurative expression. It must be remembered, however, that an idea as such brings light only...