Morphic Fields and the Edifice of Thought

08/27/201908/27/2019

In this post Scott Preston places the Edifice of Thought into relationship within the currents shaping our time in the Chrysalis.

The Chrysalis

Recently, Antonio Dias employed a phrase that I quite like: “the Edifice of Thought”. The painstakingly constructed modern edifice of thought now rests upon some pretty wobbly foundations — the metaphysical assumptions of the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm that have now become very dubious and uncertain. Chief among these dubious assumptions is metaphysical dualism, or what is called “the mind-body problem”, which has become a major impediment to our resolving many of the crises of Late Modernity.

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Scott Preston says:

08/27/2019 at 5:18 pm

Also, what your phrase “Edifice of Thought” brings to mind is something from Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell. I found it quite suggestive — “a flat-sided steep” frowning over the present world. Sounds just about like an “edifice of thought”. (His Devil also seems to be referring here to morphic fields).

When I came home, on the abyss of the five senses, where a flat-sided steep frowns over the present world, I saw a mighty Devil, folded in black clouds, hovering on the sides of the rock: with corroding fires he wrote the following sentence now perceived by the minds of men, and read by them on earth:—
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way,
Is an immense World of Delight, clos’d by your senses five?

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