Gerald R. Baron
Feb 29, 2024

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Absolutely. I'v e referenced Rudolf Otto a few times and his book The Idea of the Holy. The focus of the book is to explain that knowledge of the numinous, that is the transcendent reality, is superrational. He believes like Eddington and many others, that the awareness and knowledge of God and the spiritual world does not come to us in the same way that our scientific knowledge of the natural world does. The senses provides one avenue of knowledge, our ratiional capacity another, and direct interaction with the Spirit another. What I find so interesting about those who taught dual aspect monism for the most part saw in the underlying substrate a mechanism for this kind of direct two=way interaction. It explains much to me.

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Gerald R. Baron
Gerald R. Baron

Written by Gerald R. Baron

Dawdling at the intersection of faith, science, philosophy and theology. Author of It Was My Turn, a Vietnam story.

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