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RE: Hello fellow Steemians! First Philosophy blog - The relationship between mind and matter.
Absolutely! I have the exact same philosophy on life. Every living thing in the universe behaves according to natyral laws. I try to live my life according to these natural laws instead of opposing them: eating naturally, living more naturally being outside more and in natural settings, etc. I've studied a little into alchemy too, it's a great subject to understand reality. Everything is connected, nothing is separate, and the ancient cultures knew this, the Egyptians were more advanced than we are with sciences because they started with the assumption that everything is connected where the western world has a very compartmentalized view and education on things.
Exactly! Through dualism we not only separated our spirit from the physical theorethically. We got deforced from nature, as strangers to our own world and our bodies we become alienated from everything that is 'Other' than us. Anything that is unknown or unknowable essentially frightens us to such a degree that we try to instrumentalize objects and processes in order to know their functions. These functions we replace for meaning. Science tries to describe how things work, not what they are. Saying that something is 'something' because of how it behaves is absurd. This is the opposite of enchanting the world with meaning through our direct experiences. Trying to describe 'reality' or however we might call it by chopping it up in little pieces ad infinitum only leads to instrumental knowledge about these little pieces that have to be chopped up again. It is insanely disturbing to realize that funamental laws or particles might not exist that it is all a loop somehow endless repetition. It is as if we at first experienced reality as a whole, not understanding it as a whole. After that we broke it. Like a vase we shattered our experience of ' wholeness' and now we are trying to recollect what ones was, by smashing the pieces even further. It feels like we are only getting further away from the truth, whatever that might be.
I really try to do the same jordan, trying to experience nature, my life and body by not constantly thinking about it. Treating it well, like you said surrounding myself with the free chaos of nature instead of the controlling structures of culture.
The egyptians indeed where very wise, they achieved feats that seem impossible and impropable like building the pyramids. Like you said they knew from the start that everything is connected, while the western world after ages of spiritual oppression, is only starting to see the connections between everything. And even then we see it, but we cannot believe it. This will be the greatest effort for us as a species to overcome if it can be done.
Thank you for your post:)