LightMatter

By John C. Woodcock

This book is a gathering of essays over twenty years. Each essay explores a facet of a complex mystery that is unfolding before our unknowing or disbelieving eyes. Outwardly we see disintegration, fragmentation, and loss of meaning. Inwardly the hidden foundations of our world, i.e. fundamental logical pairs of opposites such as inner/outer, subject/object, sacred/secular, temporal/eternal, are dissolving or collapsing--a catastrophe of global proportions. We can and must learn how to navigate this catastrophe as it intensifies. I have here referred to the total destruction of stability, predictability, continuity, even coherence, in a variety of vocabularies but I focus on the fundamental pair of opposites that has stabilised the Western culture for millennia, most recently as a split--the spirit/matter split, now also in terminal collapse. I will show how this split manifests as the nuclear bomb, which also offers hints of a new spirit/matter configuration, and thus a new world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BYLVMGC6
• ISBN13: 9798385669509
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.4" x 5.5"