"We
erect
a fiction of nothingness in order to overpass, by the method of
total exclusion, all that we can know and consciously are. Actually
when we examine closely the Nihil of certain philosophies, we begin to
perceive that it is a zero which is All or an infinite which appears to
the mind a blank, because mind grasps only finite constructions, but is
in fact the only true Existence." (Sri Aurobindo “The Life Divine”)
The ado about "Nothing" is a
kind of conceptual
key to the apocalyptic age - and very poorly understood.
A a
profound comedy which essence simply begs to be brought to light. Christian faith believed that "Nothing" was
something real, and from
there it spread to philosophy, science. The worst doctrine
possible is the belief of modern atheism in the "Nothing" as something
existing (albeit The Emperors New Clothes). "Apocalypse" in
the Greek tradition simply means unveiling – and the unveiling is
really the understanding that “nothing” as a word isn't
possible. Though this sounds morbidly straight forward we
have a whole educational system, a monetary system, mathematics, a
system of modern arts and so on and on built around this symbolic
nothing. Behind this myth-of-all-times is
the belief in ego and man's attempt to control the Universe.
"Nothing" historically diverted thinking into an abstract
realm (subjectivity, German idealism) of non-sense taken seriously. The
books takes a new perspective on the
role of "ego" and consciousness in evolution (discarding Freud's,
expands on Jung without mentioning him explicit). The book proposes a fundamental change in the landscape
towards a converging collective paradigm of science, art and
spirituality. The book
offers a ride through cultural and
spiritual history to
understand why this religion of the ego was built up. In this way it
serves an entire new perspective on the role of "ego" and
consciousness. It draws from spiritualists as Sri Aurobindo and common
examples from film and news media.
2cnd EDITION, collectors item in
print: "The
Religion, Nothing" available
in Feb 2011 through WWW Verlag in Berlin (publisher Rafael Hozon)
Chapter
12:
To
Know
or
Not
to
Know
Chapter
22
–
Films
as
oracles
