Cosmic spirit, down to earth

This is what WJ meant by philosophy resuming its rights with respect to "the earth of things"…

Kieran Fox wrote this in his spare time—in med school!

"A respect for the spiritual dimension of human existence is not a license for superstition or sloppy thinking, any more than a respect for the rules of physical reality allows us to claim that atoms and energy are somehow more real than our own subjective experiences. 

If anything, Einstein's teaching holds both science and spirituality to a higher standard than ever. Science has to humbly accept how far it still has to go, and admit that its conception of the cosmos will be incomplete until it can embrace consciousness. Spirituality has to come down from the ethereal realms where it's most comfortable, and commit to effecting actual change here on Earth."

— I Am a Part of Infinity: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein by Kieran Fox
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“no other life but this”

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you think. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, difficult as it is...
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this." - Henry Thoreau

Scopes centenary

100 years ago today, Dayton, Tennessee high school teacher John Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution.

It had gone exactly according to plan: Scopes and a group of local businessmen had decided to provoke the indictment in order to challenge a new Tennessee law making it a crime to teach evolution in public schools.

https://to.pbs.org/45nhlsy