The Organism Feeds On Negative

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.

Whence Came I, Whither Go I? Science Cannot Tell Us A Word About Why Music Delights Us, Of Why And How An Old Song Can Move Us To Tears. Science Is Reticent Too When It Is A Question Of The Great Unity – The One Of Parmenides – Of Which We All Somehow Form Part, To Which We Belong. The Most Popular Name For It In Our Time Is God – With A Capital ‘g’. Whence Come I And Whither Go I? That Is The Great Unfathomable Question, The Same For Every One Of Us. Science Has No Answer To It.

The Plurality That We Perceive Is Only An Appearance; It Is Not Real. Vedantic Philosophy... Has Sought To Clarify It By A Number Of Analogies, One Of The Most Attractive Being The Many-faceted Crystal Which, While Showing Hundreds Of Little Pictures Of What Is In Reality A Single Existent Object, Does Not Really Multiply That Object.

[a Living Organism] ... Feeds Upon Negative Entropy ... Thus The Device By Which An Organism Maintains Itself Stationary At A Fairly High Level Of Orderliness (= Fairly Low Level Of Entropy) Really Consists In Continually Sucking Orderliness From Its Environment.

Thus You Can Throw Yourself Flat On The Ground, Stretched Out Upon Mother Earth, With The Certain Conviction That You Are One With Her And She With You. You Are As Firmly Established, As Invulnerable As She, Indeed A Thousand Times Firmer And More Invulnerable. As Surely As She Will Engulf You Tomorrow, So Surely Will She Bring You Forth Anew To The New Striving And Suffering. And Not Merely "some Day." Now, Today, Every Day She Is Bringing You Forth, Not Once But Thousands Upon Thousands Of Times, Just As Every Day She Engulfs You A Thousand Times Over.