I was late last night, or rather early today at 1:20am! I had worked for two hours on the web markup of the latest three daily entries until midnight, so I relaxed a bit after and there I was at passed one am! However, just in case you are worried, I had a snooze from seven to eight thirty pm, which prepared me for this late web working sojourn.

Yesterday’s entry proved challenging with the four links, even without the yet intended images of the cosmic web, something that just fascinates me! It is this possibility of entanglement in our cosmos that I find intriguing because of all the possibilities it holds in regard to the way we humans experience our own existence.

The existence model of bio-mechanical humans in cosmic empty space inherited from the late nineteenth century just does not appear adequate. It denies or excludes too many known phenomenon and experiences to be considered realistic or even functional. So, we appear to be off on a totally new adventure called the ‘standard cosmic model’ I noticed in yesterday’s quoted BBC article and link.

I did my grocery shopping for produce yesterday. The per item price for produce came out at about two dollars, while for the other items I calculated earlier an amount of four dollars per item. This make for an average of about three dollars for the two types combined, which was about one dollar when I retired back in around the year 2 000!

Capital let at six percent doubles in twelve years, so the price inflation of grocery items is far above the one reported by Stats Can or any other economic cum political soothsayer.

I want to write something on ideology as that relates to my writings of last week about the migration of symbolically held energy and the nature of this migration itself as a process.

Ideology and religion have much in common, such as doctrine, dogma, ceremony, ritual, prophets and even redemption. In science for example, the ratio redeems and certainly not any thing else except for ‘having an idea’. Communism and Capitalism are examples of economic-o-political belief frame works that structure our societies.

Religions do much the same thing, but have a higher authority that functions as an arbiter having an ultimate say. It lies beyond the human authority and is absent ideological frame works, making the settlement of disputes more difficult. Religions have the advantage that this higher authority can be called upon to settle a dispute within the community without dividing it against itself. It does not always work, but the potential is there.

Ideology and religion have in common that they hold a view of ‘reality’ that has certain biases and distortions, which often act as sources of inspiration to right a certain wrong, so perceived. NGO’s are modern examples of this kind of functioning.

The situation that gave rise to the ideology is changed by the ideology itself, because so is its aim. This means that the source of inspiration changes and may in effect cause a deflation of the original drive to make a difference.

This is what causes the migration of the holy, the symbolic energy or the emotive powers. The question then becomes one of adaptation to these inevitable changes. When the source of inspiration lies beyond, in the ‘Divine’ the ability to maintain continuity in the motivation - through revelation possibly - is available in the case of a functioning religious frame work. The secular ideology has to find a reference point that sustains it across the process and situations of such change.

An example of the latter is the Red Cross, which now has a twin in the cultures of Islam under the symbol of the Red Crescent. Also, the modern western states with their ‘rule of law’ trace their origins to religious rules and structures at earlier times. So, in a way we can speak of a migration of the holy or divine into the human secular realm and with some stretch - cum distortion - say that heaven has come to earth at least in an ideological way. I did say ideologies and religions have certain distortions that empower them!

Thomas Aquinas' idea, that the theological thought comes first and then subsequently finds expression in the world.

Writing the last few paragraphs reminds of Thomas Aquinas’ idea, that the theological thought comes first and then subsequently finds expression in the world. I read some of his works in an anthology of philosophy when I was in junior high school. I also read comics, by the way:-)!
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