The Religion, Nothing

The central subject of the book is how western thinking and its influence in the world have fallen into a kind of religious belief, an irrational faith in Nothing as our atheistic belief system (“I believe in nothing”), that to say Nothing as existing and even as the origin of the Universe.

This one idea is simply the most intuitively imperfect, impossible reasoning possible in the universe. But because ego twists language, symbols and representation it finally succeeds in killing the very idea of a indwelling God permeating the smallest scale possible as well as the largest. Crawling out from the cave man has to find sense again on the bare Earth struck by an apocalyptic culture. This awakening is the loss of ego and the beginning of an interconnected oneness in pure delight. How science has become fiction. Why philosophy has fallen into almost, mindless abstractions of language departing from its real purpose in the truest idealistic sense. Why art has become a religious obsession in abstractionism connected to the object. In effect the realms of science, philosophy and arts are widely disconnected. They leave us with very little understanding, of the greater whole, of reality, of the mystery of the universe. The result is a worldview that has been levitated by abstractionism, or in the radical sense, and plainly speaking illusionism. Not unlike that of a magician pulling rabbits out of an (empty) hat. Read more

R.T.Hansen, July 2009.