Ismcentrism

[Muchasmasgracias at cs.com]

Cool, that's the one, but I think you cut off the sentences in which Jung 
addresses the I Ching as an alternative that imposes no conditions and is 
hence incomprehensible.  Either that or it's someplace else in the book.

keith at pfmentum.com writes:

 
 "This grasping of the whole is obviously the aim of science as well,  but it
 is a goal that necessarily lies very far off because science, whenever
 possible, proceeds experimentally and in all cases statistically.
 Experiment, however consists in asking a definite question which excludes as
 far as possible anything disturbing and irrelevant.  It makes conditions,
 imposes them on nature, and in this way forces her to give an answer to a
 question devised by man.  She is prevented from answering out of the
 fullness of her possibilities since these possibilities are restricted as
 far as practicable.  For this purpose there is created in the laboratory a
 situation which is artificially restricted to the question and which compels
 Nature to give an uniquivocal answer.  The workings of Nature in her
 unrestricted wholeness are comPLEtely excluded.  If we want to know what
 these workings are, we need a method of inquiry which imposes the fewest
 possible conditions, or if possible no conditions at all, and then leaves
 Nature to answer out of her fullness."
 
 --C.G. Jung, The Structure And Dynamics Of The Psyche/Synchronicity (p. 451)
 
 
 
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