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“We Can’t Know What We Can’t Know but We Cannot Unknow What We Are:

“Our Reality Is Species Determined & the Relativity of Science”

Ch 2

of *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

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ED 2/1

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “Ultimately our physics...is going to demonstrate that essentially there is no such thing as matter. All there is, is mind & motion.” —Armand Labbe []

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ED 2/2

[*Chapter 2 text begins:*] *Relativity of Science*

“But what of our science, one might ask, which can reputedly extend the range of our senses?”

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ED 2/3

“Does [our science] not provide accurate-enough “feedback” or “alternative”-enough perspectives to allow us a glimpse of what *is*, for truth, really real?”

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ED 2/4

“Let us just look at what modern science tells us about the observations it makes on the world.

“According to Gary Zukav, the author of a widely read overview of the new physics,..”

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ED 2/5

“…a major underpinning of modern physics is the realization & discovery that science cannot predict anything, as had been taken for granted, with absolute certainty.”

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ED 2/6

“Relatedly, the new physics informs us that there is simply no way to separate the observed event from the observer. That is to say that the observer is, her- or himself, an inexcludable variable & always affects the results of an experiment.”

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ED 2/7

“In a very fundamental way, the perceiver influences what is seen in even the most “scientifically” pure observations & experiments: “The new physics...tells us clearly that it is not possible to observe reality without changing it” (Zukav).”

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ED 2/8

“Zukav takes, as an example, that a condition is set up to perceive an event: If it is designed to find waves in light, it discovers waves; if it is designed to find particles, we get particles—in supposedly the *same* “outside world”...

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ED 2/9

“…& regardless of the fact that logically light cannot be both a particle & a wave (pp. 30-31). That is the classic example, of course. The structure of the experiment, designed by the observer, determines what will be found.”

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ED 2/10

“What is this saying if not just what I have stated above? Is this not the same as saying that we determine ultimately, because of our specific biology, what we sense; that we therein *determine* the “world” we experience.”

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ED 2/11

“To some extent, however, our social scientists have yet to get that memo from the hard sciences. For example, in line with Anscombe’s terminology of *brute facts, John Searle claims a distinction between “brute facts” & “institutional facts.””

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ED 2/12

“Anthropologist Roy D’Andrade elaborates on this & goes on to explain what is meant by *brute facts*,

“”..Not all social-science variables refer to culturally created things;””

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ED 2/13

“”…some variables refer to objects & events that exist prior to, & independent of, their definition: for example, a person’s age, the number of calories consumed during a meal, the number of chairs in a room, or the pain someone felt.””

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ED 2/14

“From what I have been saying, we can see that these “brute facts” may not be culturally constituted as D’Andrade asserts, but they certainly are biologically constituted.”

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ED 2/15

“For age, time, calories, chair, & especially pain are all realities relative to humans, & some *only* to humans.”

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ED 2/16

“We might remember what I said earlier about vibrational rates (heat) & its relativity to the perceiving organism. Hence, these “brute facts” are *species-specific facts*—“brute” only in relation to our particular species.”

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ED 2/17

“*If a Tree Falls in the Forest….*

“Thus, the new-paradigm answer to the age-old philosophical question is clear: If a tree falls in the forest & there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? Absolutely not.”

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ED 2/18

“Sound is as much species-relative as the practice of polygamy is culturally relative. In other words, there are species for which sound does not exist.”

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ED 2/19

“Similarly, the event that we perceive as *sound-tree-and-forest-interacting* may be “perceived” as something quite different with different and/or more kinds of “senses” or, one might say, from a different vantage point.”

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ED 2/20

“Indeed, different concoctions of the event—combinations of its elements—may be carved out of it & relative to the other-than-human perceiver & create vastly different & totally *unimaginable* interpretations!”

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ED 2/21

“Even the determination of it being an*event* is relative, hence questionable ultimately. Whether or not there is actually even a physical world in which it occurs is suspect & is something we will deal with at length & in due time in this book.”

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ED 2/22

“The upshot of this, however, is that removing our anthropocentric blinders in this way we must conclude that the world, as experienced, is created of realities that are not only culturally constituted;”

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ED 2/23

“there are also *biologically constituted realities*.

"The “brute facts” to which D’Andrade refers are—nothing brute about them—*biologically determined facts*.”

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ED 2/24

“Indeed, there are *biologically determined facts*, *bioculturally determined facts*, & *culturally determined facts*—all existing on a continuum.”

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ED 2/25

“So do we then, indeed, create our own reality culturally, of which Marshall Sahlins writes? Marshall Sahlins is a prominent American anthropologist who stressed the power that culture has to shape the world that people discern & act within.”

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ED 2/26

“And, yes, I believe we do live within culturally created worlds, separate from other people in other culturally created worlds.

“But I believe we do much more than that. I believe we create it biologically too:”

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ED 2/27

“I believe that our reality is species determined prior to that.”

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ED 2/28

“& while that might sound common-sensical, I contend it is a factor affecting our constructions of reality & determining what we think is real that has been overlooked but has huge significance,affecting the very foundations of knowledge itself.”

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ED 2/29

“*Relativity: Cultural & Biological*

“First, however, what does this say about cultural relativity, of which so much is made in anthropological circles?”

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ED 2/30

“I agree with Sahlins’s position on the total & symbolic nature of culture & with it the resulting extreme cultural relativism which he asserts.”

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ED 2/31

“As D’Andrade put it, Sahlins’s view is extreme enough that it undermines even science’s claim to validity & makes of our science, “mere ethnoscience” (p. 5).”

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ED 2/32

“But I do not imply by my agreement that I believe reality is *only* culturally determined by any definitional stretch of the term *cultural* that Sahlins, even from his “total heritage” perspective, cud have had in mind. I intend to go further.”

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ED 2/33

“How so, then, could I claim, at the outset, that I believe both positions can be true?”

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ED 2/34

“How can reality be so thoroughly “created”—not only culturally but biologically as well—& yet there be universal commonalities on which to base analyses & cross-cultural understanding?”

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ED 2/35

“Where I disagree with Sahlins & emphatically agree with D’Andrade on the existence of “brute facts” standing outside & separate from cultural constructions is where D’Andrade, in referring to a quote from Sahlins, writes…”

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ED 2/36

““I think I agree if...[he]...means that people respond to their interpretations of events, not the raw events themselves.””

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ED 2/37

“”However, if this means that culture can interpret any event any way, & that therefore there is no possibility of establishing universal generalizations, I disagree.””

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ED 2/38

“”I believe that there are strong constraints on how much interpretative latitude can be given to biological & social events.””

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ED 2/39

“”While the letters “D,” “O,” “G,” can be given any interpretation, *pain*, *death *, & *hunger* have such powerful *intrinsic* negative properties…””

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ED 2/40

“”…that they can be interpreted as “good” things only with great effort & for short historical periods with many failed converts. (*emphases mine*, p. 6)””

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ED 2/41

“With this statement of D’Andrade, I enthusiastically agree also. I believe that there are “intrinsic” (biological) determiners of cultures, which create a basic underlying structure.”

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ED 2/42

“Where I feel I take issue with D’Andrade is that I contend that these “intrinsic” determiners are intrinsic to the species, not to the events themselves. They are as much biologically relative as items of culture are culturally relative.”

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ED 2/43

“This is as important to point out as it is important in physics to keep in mind that particles & waves only exist in relation to an observer.”

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ED 2/44

“In this regard, as Armand Labbe (1991) put it, “Ultimately our physics...is going to demonstrate that essentially there is no such thing as matter. All there is, is mind & motion.””

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ED 2/45

“At any rate, I contend that our biological “infrastructure”—species specific but common to all humans—results in biocultural, species-specific, & hence transcultural *patterns* of thought & behavior.”

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ED 2/46

“Further, these transcultural patterns of thought & behavior create transcultural patterns of social structure, “external culture,” sociocultural behavior, & so on.”

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ED 2/47

This has been the entire Ch 2 of my book,

*Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

which is

a pantheistic perspective on Reality & Nature that asserts logically & in line with quantum physics that the basic unit of Existence is Experience.

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ED 2/48

Experience, shared, is the nature of Existence & the grand total of minds in the Universe is 1. As quantum physicist, Erwin Schrödinger phased it, “The total number of minds in the universe is one.”

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ED 2/49

Schrödinger phased it, “The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.”

That one Mind, or singularity, in all of Existence can only be what we refer to as "God" or "Divinity."

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ED 2/50

& since we are all aspects of that one Mind or Divinity & our participation in that Divinity is the fractal of experience we call our life, then our very experience is our Divinity and the combined total of all Experience, all of that One Mind,..

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ED 2/51

…[our very experience is our Divinity & the combined total of all Experience, all of that One Mind,] is God, or Divinity. Thus, Experience Is Divinity.

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ED 2/52

and Experience, indeed…as our experiences in the experiential modalities & spirituality in general show…our very experience is indeed our Divine guiding self.

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ED 2/53

That our very experience is Divinity, is Experience, has profound implications for spiritual growth, psychotherapy, philosophy, quantum,& metaphysics.

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ED 2/54

The book, *Experience Is Divinity*, shows how in our coming into being as individuals of the species human, we repressed our innate connection with Divinity.

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ED 2/55

This repression of our innate connection with Divinity was done as part of the Game of humanness, wherein God (gods, Divinity) becomes less than Itself to set off the glorious ad-venture of Existence. Of Experience.

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ED 2/56

This book rests on the latest findings of research into nonordinary states. It is informed by the research of Stanislav Grof, of the author & his wife’s own nonordinary experiences, of quantum physics, & of primal & other experiential modalities.

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ED 2/57

Ch 2 is titled,

“We Can’t Know What We Can’t Know but We Cannot Unknow What We Are:

"Our Reality Is Species Determined & the Relativity of Science”

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ED 2/58

The complete book is available online at the links

you can read the book, which is posted on the blog, or you can follow the directions there & download a free copy of *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*.

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ED 2/59

This is the completed document for *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

It is a pdf file, & it looks exactly as the book looks.

To read and/or download a copy, click link:

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ED 2/60

If you like & agree with these ideas & want more attention & thought brought to them, feel free to download the book & pass it around, as you wish; use it to spread these ideas.

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ED 2/61

“It is time now for humans to regain the primal legacy of belongingness in Divinity & Nature, which we lost when we put ourselves up as the crown of creation & at the peak of some evolutionary pyramid, with “dominion” over all the rest

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ED 2/62

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The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

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ED 2/63

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ED 2/64

Up next,

in *Experience Is Divinity:

"Matter As Metaphor*

by Michael Adzema

is Ch 3, titled,

“We Are What We’ve Experienced & The Perinatal Paradigm:

“Our Conception, Gestation, & Birth Create Our Windows to the World”

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ED 2/65

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