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Science and Myth: What We Are Never Told

By Wolfgang Smith

Book information

Publisher
Sophia Perennis
Year
2010
ISBN
1597310972, 9781597310970, 1597310980, 9781597310987
LCC
BL241 .S685 2010
Open Library ID
OL24523795M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3585509 bytes)
Pages
193\193
DPI
600
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In Science and Myth the author shows, in the first place, that science too has its mythology, unrecognized and unacknowledged though the fact be. These scientistic myths, however, turn out to constitute what he terms anti-myths: "a kind that would banish all others, and in so doing, undermine not only religion and morality, but indeed all culture in its higher modes." What invalidates the contemporary "scientific" world-view and renders it "mythical" in the pejorative sense, he goes on to contend, proves finally to be the underlying hypothesis that human perception terminates, not in an external object, but in a subjective phantasm. Not only does the author maintain cogently that visual perception, in particular, does penetrate to the external world, but basing himself on traditional sources-fromVedic to Biblical-he shows that sight as such opens in principle to a veritable gnosis: a "seeing of the Real."

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