{"id":828,"date":"2013-01-14T10:19:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2013-01-14T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:19:43","slug":"a-cosmic-compass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"A Cosmic Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who lose your way, perhaps this may help. It is a cosmic compass. Actually, it may not help much, because \u201cdirection\u201d is such as 3-dimensional\u2026 well, dimension? Realm? (But the true cosmos, you know, is very multi-dimensional and includes, for example, dreams.) But the point in the symbolism below is really, well, depends on which way you want to go.<\/p>\n

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Hm, that\u2019s not much of an answer, but it does speak to another thing I\u2019ve been thinking about, which is what paradigm-shifts in basic world-view are happening all around us lately. It\u2019s hard to see because we\u2019re so locked into our own world-view. What occurs to me is that the interactional nature of many aspects of reality—i.e., depends on what interests you, what you\u2019re looking for, what you will accept as a plausible response, does not lie outside of you as an objective truth, but actually ultimate truth means this: \u201cDepends on what you want.\u201d <\/p>\n

I know, that puts too much responsibility on each individual. Perhaps that\u2019s what some intellectuals a century ago meant by \u201cexistential angst.\u201d It also partakes somewhat in the postmodern turn in philosophy that so many people feel entitled to be angry towards. But there it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who lose your way, perhaps this may help. It is a cosmic compass. Actually, it may not help much, because \u201cdirection\u201d is such as 3-dimensional\u2026 well, dimension? Realm? (But the true cosmos, you know, is very multi-dimensional and includes, for example, dreams.) But the point in the symbolism below is really, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-spirituality-and-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}