Dickie Bush on Substack
We used to think that the earth is flat. Galileo was convicted of heresy for teaching that the earth isn’t the center of the universe and that it revolves around the sun. We used to ridicule scientists claiming that invisible germs could harm us (until we could see them through advanced microscopes). The list could go on and on. It’s easy in
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So we have reached a paradox: The commitment to a totally scientific view of the world has led to theories that may be unscientific, according to Popper’s definition of science. In a sense, the miracle believers and the miracle nonbelievers have found a bit of common ground. This is not to say that the transcendent experience of miraculous
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That's the same thing these magical moments, these inklings of awe, reconnections to each other, or the divine, or the everything. That's what they do.
They're like the deja vu that helps Neo recognize a glitch in the Matrix, or when Katniss shoots an arrow at the sky in Hunger Games to reveal it's just a dome.
Despite all evidence to the contrary,
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