Read this as a poorly executed rap/slam.
TAKE 1
Descartes' famous and cheeky declaration
become the reason
The rationalization
The substantiation
that it’s permissible
even the calling card
of the freakishly intelligent
the class with the upper hand
Subjugating
sacrificing
our sacred living experience
our heart-mind
To our puny little addicted brains
And now* every body who has
a different way of knowing
And every thing that is not human
is of less value than our
Burning Bloated Brains.
Rene should have stuck with mathematics. He was good at that.
Mathematics...yeah, that's the right career for Rene.
TAKE 2:
No more.
Thinking loses hands down
to experience.
It all belongs.
It all has worth.
It is all ‘am’.
It is all 'am'.
*The Age of Enlightenment was officially kicked off by Rene Descartes with Discourse on the Method Thankfully, we began slamming into the other end point for this aberration (so called enlightenment!) when we figured out that reduction is not the only or even the best way to understand how things are.
Submission for One Single Impression prompt: conquer. Thanks to Tea Leaves ‘n Honey for hosting this week’s prompt. Visit OSI for a smorgasbord of impressions about each week’s prompt…this one about conquer!
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About Beth Patterson
The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.
With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.
Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.
I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.
Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.
Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.
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