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Newsletter Nr. 762
Amsterdam, March 16th, 2019


THE MIRACLE OF “MATTER” - Seeing with Integral Vision—Part 1 - BRAD REYNOLDS

Materialism as a philosophy (or “point-of-view”) seems to have begun during the Axial Age (ca. 800–200 BC) in both ancient India and Greece, which was the dawn of the egoic-mental structure of consciousness.[1] Amazingly, atomists emerged in India around the same time as Buddha, probably with Ajita Kesakambali, Payasi, and Kanada, proponents of the Cārvāka school of Hindu philosophy. Over in Greece, around the same time, the Presocratic (“before Socrates”) philosophers (often called “proto-scientists”) began proposing various “substances” as being the arche (archetype) or fundamental substance of creation. By the 5th-century BCE, philosophers such as Leucippus and Democritus (c. 460–370 BCE) were asserting materialism, in contradiction to Plato's Idealism, with the “Laughing Philosopher,” the “father of modern science” (Democritus) asserting: “Nothing exists but atoms and the void (or empty space); everything else is opinion.” No laughing matter, this materialism business.

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