A higher moral perspective is meaningless without a higher vertical physical perspective to account for it.Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2017 9:02 am Nick quoted Einstein, and commented:
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
This is a cosmic perspective that can be experienced consciously. It isn't a matter of more facts but the conscious willingness to open to a higher perspective that recognizes the universe as a functioning unified whole within which Man's purpose is served through the process of consciously connecting levels of reality.
Nick, the higher perspective is a higher moral perspective that derives from scientifically verified knowledge.
The higher perspective cannot be what you call "consciously connecting levels of reality" : that is not scientific but may be a delusion of grandeur.
Is Plotinus' concept of the ONE, the Hermetic concept of "As above so below" and the idea expressed in the Kybalion that the "All is Mind" just delusions of grandeur? This is the mentality that has become dominant in many institutions of child abuse called schools resulting in metaphysical repression. Sad.
Why suggest some sort of psychological deficiency necessary in order to imagine what is intuitively revealed? It is just a normal expression for assumed secular superiority.