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%NATURAL PERSONAL SUPERNATURAL 800519
Some people set up an unnecessary dichotomy and ask
whether or not the nature of ultimate reality is natural
or supernatural; by "natural" pointing to objective
realities, objects; by "supernatural" pointing to the
realm of spirits, gods, angels, etc. where the traditional
human physiological senses are not perceptive. It is not
clear why the choice must be limited to just two
alternatives. No proof is offered to show that there are
no additional alternatives, perhaps because proofs of such
a nature are virtually impossible to present in an
objectively convincing way.
Why is it that little thought is given to the
possibility that the nature of ultimate reality might be
personal, without connotations of supernatural. Why is
the realm of direct inter-personal relationships excluded
from consideration? Is it obvious that ultimate reality
must be other than that of direct personal experience?
Why reject direct personal experience in favor of some
highly abstract, theoretical technical formulation of the
nature of ultimate reality? Are the reasons political?
The people who tend to promote some limited aspect of
reality as the ultimate nature of reality---are the people
who stand most to gain by their specialty becoming the
bridge from appearances to reality. They encourage people
to believe that their world is a world of mere
appearances, and that technical specialists can offer the
bridge from the world of appearances to the world of true
perception of the ultimate nature of reality. In this way
technical specialists can play a role much like that of
the toll collector at a bridge. Of course the owners of
the bridge will seek to promote business.
On what grounds is it suggested that nay one aspect
of reality is ultimate? Might it not be that there are
many complementary perspectives and none ultimate. Is
there an ultimate perspective from which one can get an
ultimate understanding of a given mountain range? Does
any one perspective offer any more ultimate a view of a
mountain range than the other perspectives? Why must
there be just one ultimate perspective? Is it assumed
that God has only one perspective, and that to be like God
we must have Her perspective? His perspective?
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