a Soul in ev'ry Stone WAS Re: GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

[Doug Millison]

RJ said, "The Australian Aborigines certainly, and I suspect African 
and American
indigenous peoples too, get along quite well believing there to be a Soul in
ev'ry Stone, or something very much like it."

So do many Christian --  the contemplatives, those who embrace the 
creation spirituality that Matthew Fox promulgates, many members of 
mainline, liberal Christian churches.  And adherents to the mystical 
traditions of the other major faith traditions. So did Plato (see Ken 
Wilber on Plato as working mystic). As indebted as we are to 
indigenous peoples, we don't have to embrace their worldviews to 
experience the world as a miracle:  this appears to be part of the 
natural heritage of all humankind, and, in the West and its colonial 
outposts, retreats only before the advance of Capital and the 
Enlightment worldview.  This, I believe, is an important part of what 
Pynchon has to say to us in his books.
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