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Oil on canvas
30x50 cm
Eye of Contemplation

Every human being has the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of contemplation. Each of these modes of knowing discloses its own corresponding dimension of being (gross, subtle and causal), and thus each is valid and important when addressing its own realm. This gives us a balance of empirical knowledge (science), rational knowledge (logic and mathematics), and spiritual knowledge (gnosis).

All valid forms of knowledge have an injunction, an illumination, and a confirmation. In order to gain access to any of these valid modes of knowing, I must be adequate to the injunction. And where the exemplar in the physical sciences might be a telescope, and in the mental sciences might be linguistic interpretation, in the spiritual sciences the exemplar, the injunction, the paradigm, the practice is meditation or contemplation.

If we do not take up the injunctive practice, we will not have a genuine paradigm, and therefore we will never see the data of the spiritual domain. We will in effect be no different from the churchmen who refused to follow Galileo's injunction and look through the telescope itself.

Ken Wilber
The Marriage of Sense and Soul
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488x820px 113.52 KB
Make
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Model
KODAK DX4530 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA
Shutter Speed
1/91 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
8 mm
Date Taken
Jan 1, 2003, 12:01:54 PM
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Claza124's avatar
this is pretty cool :D
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