Stephen Pickering

Tag: Religion

The Essential Function of Mythology and Religion

Mar 28, 2020

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Stephen Pickering

in Mythology, Philosophy, Pyschology, Spiritual

It’s to put the psyche in accord with nature. Once a hero begins an adventure he quickly learns he has to let go of his ego thinking and let the quest itself be his guide. In some adventures the hero is humbled (Odysseus, Parsifal, Job, Indra). In others he is completely eaten up or otherwise…
Want to Travel Through Space and Time? Don’t Collapse Your Wave Function!

May 23, 2009

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Stephen Pickering

in Philosophy, Science

Technology is like stealing fire from the Gods, that’s one interpretation of the fire theft metaphor you see in mythology, most notably the Prometheus story, but it never satisfies because it is piecemeal, and the second we observe it, it freezes, its wave function collapses. So the more we get, the more we want, and…