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Henri Bergson:Creative Evolution

Link: Henri Bergson.

following on from the 'spiritual chicks' post regarding time as illusion and in response to Johnny's comment on Bergsons ideas of space & time, below is an extract from Swami Krishnananda's critique on Creative Evolution

"Bergson's consciousness evolves because it is the individual mind moving with the operations of matter in a world of space and time. Evolution is impossible without space-time relations, for evolution is causation, whether we conceive it as linear or organic. And space and time are phenomenal forms, they cannot be equated with Reality. Bergson unnecessarily emphasises the importance of time and makes it non-spatial, calling it an eternal duration which he identifies with Reality.

It is impossible to conceive of time without space, and time does not cease to be a relative phenomenon merely because another word, viz., duration, is substituted for it. Space and time constitute a single continuum, and there can be no such thing as duration without time. Bergson thinks that there can be absence in space and yet there can be movement in time. This is a dogmatic assertion which cannot bear the test of experience, reason or observation. There cannot be succession or duration without space. Time cannot become Reality, for it has no existence independent of spatial and causal relations. Nor can it be said that causal change itself is Reality, for all change implies a changeless being as its ground".

Hmmmmmmmmmmm......................needs digesting. Thanks again to Johnny for understanding, inspiring and valued support. I'm off to read up on Bergson !!!

The Spiritual Chicks: If time is an illusion why is my past still pissing me off

Link: The Spiritual Chicks: Kick-Ass Content.

While browsing on this fine sunday morning i found myself at this site. I am logging it because of the reference to time being an illusion, (my feelings too).

Check it:

"It’s not a philosophical statement to say that everything happens in the present---it’s the truth.  Think about it.  We remember the past and make predictions for the future all in the present moment.  We experience reality only in the now.  For millennia, mystics (and more recently, scientists) have informed humankind that time is an illusion.  But we’re so tied to our stories about the past (you know, how badly we were treated as children, teenagers, etc.) and our desires for the future (yes, all those worthwhile goals such as financial abundance, powerful positions, etc.) that we can’t see that what we focus our attention on in the moment is our reality.  Every time we review painful memories from childhood, we give them life and confirm our sense of powerlessness.  While we pray for more money in the future, we do nothing more than affirm our feelings of lack.  So, what’s the answer?  Stop dreaming, stop thinking, stop remembering?  Well, yes, as a matter of fact.  If time is merely a construct, we can choose to deconstruct it.  Without time, there is no death and we are free to simply be. The function of time is to get us to realize that it doesn’t exist.  That just might be the key to enlightenment".

One of the points i would like to make is; how is time defined? or even, for who is time defined...of course the answer must be humanity.

Could it be argued that time, (in its popular meaning), is in fact a mechanism for control. After all what does 9-5 or "you're late" mean to anyone or thing other than the wage slave?.........

All life is cyclical while time as we know it is linear and therefore unnatural.
This is one of those subjects that i have a genuine interest in as in my humble opinion it's not the only illusion played on the unsuspecting, wealth also springs to mind.

As for 'enlightenment' i'm not sure whether understanding time is the key to it.
Personally i don't subscribe to the idea of understanding anything because if living is in the moment surely there is no need to waste time analyzing it.

I would love to hear some thoughts on this so how about a little communication...it's a two way street you know !!

 

PLoS Clinical Trials : A Peer-reviewed, Open-access Journal - Patient Safety Requires a New Way to Publish Clinical Trials

Link: PLoS Clinical Trials : A Peer-reviewed, Open-access Journal - Patient Safety Requires a New Way to Publish Clinical Trials.

Shocking indictment of the way clinical trials are, and have been, performed to deceive the public into believing that medical treatment is objective and evidence based when in reality it is nothing but a self regulating mess.

 

Hold this quote from the former editor of the British Medical Journal a publication that financially relies heavily on the publishing of these works of fiction

"The way medical journals publish the results of clinical trials has become a serious threat to public health. You may find this assertion shocking and counterintuitive, but we hope that by the end of this short article you will agree and will join us in arguing for the better way of making medical information publicly available that we outline". (Smith R, Roberts I)

If you want to take responsibility for your health then it might be an idea to read this so that the next time you go to the doctor and he fills out a prescription for poison you know where the 'evidence' comes from......The people that made it and have a vested interest in ensuring a positive outcome of these clinical trials.

Change..........makes you want to hustle.