That is, the sort of New Agey people that tend to say “Science can never understand the nature of the soul!” don’t mean that the soul can never be understood, just that understanding it requires divine revelation / seeing past the veil of Maya / altered mindstates corresponding suspiciously to the effects of LSD.
What if it had read “the length and width of Universe, which is big”?
Oh, I see—I parsed “Universe, which is ever changing” as a catechistic epithet, a la “Atomic Flux operating Near the God” or “Holy Mary, mother of God”. It could be an implication of causality, but it still doesn’t seem certain.
people that tend to say “Science can never understand the nature of the soul!” don’t mean that the soul can never be understood, just that it understanding it requires divine revelation
Good point. Sometimes they might mean one and other times the other.
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What if it had read “the length and width of Universe, which is big”?
That is, the sort of New Agey people that tend to say “Science can never understand the nature of the soul!” don’t mean that the soul can never be understood, just that understanding it requires divine revelation / seeing past the veil of Maya / altered mindstates corresponding suspiciously to the effects of LSD.
Oh, I see—I parsed “Universe, which is ever changing” as a catechistic epithet, a la “Atomic Flux operating Near the God” or “Holy Mary, mother of God”. It could be an implication of causality, but it still doesn’t seem certain.
Good point. Sometimes they might mean one and other times the other.