“So, life is bigger than anything we can call “an essence.” The very concept of an essence forever tears apart the possible union between the relative and the absolute: essence, so-called, will always be “deeper within,” or “higher than that,” or better or more potent in some way.
This view is consistently hierarchical, forgoing one plane for the next, one experience for the next experience. Although this is true—we do move from one rung to the next in life as on the spiritual path—it is not the whole truth. The whole truth can only be found by looking at the whole of anything.” - JS
emergentism gives us the both/and because opposites emerged together as a single thing in relationship with itself through contrast...but not by individuating but by unividuating...
This view is consistently hierarchical, forgoing one plane for the next, one experience for the next experience. Although this is true—we do move from one rung to the next in life as on the spiritual path—it is not the whole truth. The whole truth can only be found by looking at the whole of anything.” - JS
emergentism gives us the both/and because opposites emerged together as a single thing in relationship with itself through contrast...but not by individuating but by unividuating...