Click for Audio: Particle, Wave or Both?
In spiritual terminology, the process we call learning is the act of consciousness building. There are two ways that we do this. The most common is the conventional learning a skill-set through study and practice, usually a combined intellectual and physical endeavor, depending on what we are learning. We call it tuition, book learning, passing objectively accumulated information from one mind to another via direct or written instruction.
In contrast, a practice like meditation invokes intuitive learning that is subjective and experiential in nature and does not utilize as the kunt u zonder recept viagra kopen in duitsland primary way of knowing the same intellectual processes used in the objective approach. One person cannot pass spiritual enlightenment or a spiritual experience to another. They can stir the imagination and the emotion by telling of their experience, but the experience itself cannot be imparted through intellectual or physical means. It must come from within the individual.
So when it comes to consciousness building, of what value is the intellect to the spiritual aspirant? Or what value is the subjective, meditative experience to the upwardly mobile intellectual aspiring to a higher social class through the acquisition of wealth and status? Albert Einstein raised a similar question in the form of statements concerning light, and whether it behaved as a particle or as a wave.
“It seems as though we must use sometimes the one theory and viagra canada purchase sometimes the other, while at times we may use either. We are faced with a new kind of difficulty. We have two contradictory pictures of reality; separately neither of them fully explains the phenomena of light, but together they do”
For the sake of drawing a parallel between these two seemingly unrelated subjects, let’s think of intellectual information as particle-based—words with specific meanings formed into ideas that can be communicated to others, for example. Let’s think of intuitive learning as the subjective, inner directed, wave-based experience that brings true spiritual enlightenment but cannot, by any external means, be transmitted from one person to another. Those engaged in the intellectual approach to a spiritual experience might conclude that more particle-based information will eventually produce a wave experience. Since the experience of the wave seems so remote, the logical conclusion is that more time and the accumulation of more particles are required. The spiritually awakened, however, knows and adheres to the advice of the Proverb to “Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well” (Proverbs 5:15).
Now we’re left with a dilemma similar to Einstein’s. We are compelled then to see the soul as a wave expressing through a world that thinks and communicates in the language of the particle. Sometimes we behave like a wave and sometimes we behave like a particle. Separately neither of these aspects fully explains the human condition, but together they do.