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The Exploding Categories
…Somehow this embrace of the entire spectrum of human emotion and experience disintegrates the easy categories into which you most often place the ebb and flow of reality. No longer is there a good and a bad, a right and a wrong. She is all of these, and none of them defines or limits her. Propelling you beyond mere human circumstance, however, her words disrupt your casual definitions of the Divinity. It would be consoling if She fit some classical mold, but She does not!
You are suddenly on new ground. You know nothing, and yet everything is ageless and true.
— Lee Lozowick (1943–2010)
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The essence of philosophy is not the possession of truth…It’s questions are more essential than its answers, and every answer becomes a new question.
— Karl Jaspers
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In 1899, when I was past forty and carrying on my experiments in Colorado, I could hear very distinct thunderclaps at a distance of 550 miles. The limit of audition for my young assistants was scarcely more than 150 miles. My ear was thus over thirteen times more sensitive…The whistle of a locomotive twenty or thirty miles away made the bench or chair on which I sat vibrate so strongly that the pain was unbearable. The ground under my feet trembled continuously. I had to support my bed on rubber…
