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Face down before that which is already external to mind on Dr John Dunn.

Prostrate before the idol



The infinite variety of man and nature is my living thinking, where the One is everything, rather than Ananke’s one nothing. In me all distinctions are reconciled, never cancelled. This is the polar opposite of the view taken by religionists and rationalists. In their view the soul loses itself in the infinite, where not only all vision of finite things, but even its own personality, is extinguished.



For the rationalists the Absolute is knowable because it confronts the mind as a thing complete that is open to discovery as knowledge. For the religionist, the Absolute is distant and unknowable. Nevertheless, religionism accords with rationalism in conceiving the divine Absolute as something which confronts mind, and to which the mind must strive to be fused. And vice versa, rationalism coincides with religionism in that it sets the object under scrutiny wholly apart from itself, to the point where it resorts to empty metaphor and intuitive guess work to explain even itself.



Both rationalism and religionism have the same source root, which sets the subject wholly and inexplicably apart from the object, the worshipper from a distant Jehovah, the idolater prostrate before the idol.



(Eros added - In the end, you will participate in my thinking, because the mind is not confined to my skull.)


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From the archive: Thoughts on love prompted by Rudolf Steiner

The Mythology The Mythology
First in the Mythology is Love: variously Logos, God, the Word, the Cosmic Jesus, living thought.
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Just a thought: So began the Christian (or Messianic) era, the Jehovian terror, during which man has been enslaved to the very higher reality that Jesus preached against. And the whole panoply of Christian worship, the ritual, the liturgy, is only so much metaphor and allegory for man’s submission to hypostasis, or external reality per se. John Dunn (Child of Encounter)

The Oxford to Cambridge Arc 3 The Oxford to Cambridge Arc 3
Further additions to the project, starting with the Buckingham to Newport Pagnell leg of Ogilby's 1675 Oxford to Cambridge route.
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England idyll on Dr John Dunn. Motorcycle England
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In search of the historical, quirky and unusual features of the English countryside as seen from the saddle.

Join me as I follow maps, park up and take a look around. CLICK HERE

“Seeking out historical places of interest has given me wonderful motorcycling opportunities over the years… roads and little lanes, through a variety of landscapes that bear the scars, marks and imprints of those that have trodden, worked and fought on the land before us.”

“Any excursion, whether it be by motorcycle, car, bicycle or on foot, is always better for having an object, or goal in mind. I could take no pleasure in riding around just for the sake of it. There has to be a mission.”

“I ride my motorcycle to seek out things ancient, quirky and monumental, taking in the views, and ‘reading’ the landscape,its geology and history, as I do so.”

Original commentary to all videos researched, written and read by John Dunn.


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