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This-essay is a7312073.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %SPIRITUALISTIC MECHANISM 731207 Much of modern life is dominated by a materialistic mechanism. Men live with self-images predicated upon the operation of cause and effect relation-ships in the realm of physical processes. Some say that man is no more than the operation of these physical, and that only the superstitious any longer give any consideration to any phenomena which can not be under-stood in terms of the explanations of physical science. Thus some men live by the faith that eventually all phenomena---including the complexities of states of consciousness, dialogue, and self-transcendence---will be fully understood in terms of physical mechanisms. In such a view, human fulfillment will be hastened by a greater understanding of the laws which govern physical processes, for then men will be able to manipulate processes to his liking by appropriate techniques based upon that greater understanding. In contrast to such material mechanists there are some who live with self-images predicated upon the operation of cause and effect relationships in the realm of spiritual processes. Some say that man is at heart the operation of these spiritual processes and that only the insensitively materialistic any longer give any consideration to understanding man in terms of physical processes. Thus, some men live by the faith that eventually all hope and meanings --- including the complexities of states of consciousness, dialogue, and self-transcendence---will be fully understood in terms of spiritual mechanisms. In such a view, human fulfillment will be hastened by a greater understanding of the spiritual laws which govern human processes, for then men will be able to direct their lives in accordance to those laws. There is a surprising similarity between the structure of the under-standing of the materialistic mechanists and the spiritualistic mechanists. Both seem to take for granted the operation of cause and effect and the possibility of prediction, and so the anticipation of consequences. Both types of people are represented by their technocrats using sophisticated theoretical models to represent the operations of the invisible mechanisms and laws of process. Both types of people tend to maximize attention on theory while being inattentive to existential realities. As a natural consequence the mechanisms operate to minimize mutual awareness and mutual understanding as many cease to live in the technocratic society. (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in GO: essayz.com "Search for Integrity and Honesty" (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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