Science and the Sense of the Holy - Loren Eiseley

[makikihustle]

I recently discovered Eiseley after hearing Ray Bradbury mention an essay of his, "The Fire Apes", in which Eiseley ruminates on the dawn and dusk of mankind as a species, a vast metaphor he fills with his knowledge of paleontology and archeology, and biology, and uses it to look through the glass of time itself, all inspired by the mere sight of a hungry squirrel.

Loren Eiseley was a genius. I'm sad after just discovering him, to learn that he has already left this world.

Great video.

[zzinglish53]

Didn't mean to sound like a complete crank, but was motivated by wanting to hear what was said, as Eiseley is a poet who learned science & not the other way around. I wish your motivation for producing all these meaningful vids was the norm among us rather than the exception, and when that becomes reality we'll be much closer to the Art of turning all those "Thats" into "Thous" and thus be That much closer to home.

Namaste'

[zzinglish53]

Whatever song it's too loud relative to narrative; when the ups & downs of the voice meet the same in the music words/phrases are lost making what's probably a most enjoyable & informative essay into an exercise in tedium. I appreciate ur effort but this is prob the most common problem with YT vids; as this is mainly an intellectual presentation, meaning, not elicitation of emotion should have priority. Not that I think I could read it any better, but I'd listen, adjust, then post.

Namaste'

[neonwind]

Thanks for putting this up.

I love his works.

[Chiparoo22]

Three Loren Eiseley books, (if you can find them?): All The Lonely Hours (an autobiography of sorts); The Immense Journey; and The Star Thrower. - If anyone is interested.

[2bsirius]

I had forgotten this video...Added to my favorites!

[IChoseTheRedPill]

how appropriate...you're the best bro...

[cheekyredsun]

exellent work my friend,

love and light,

cheekyredsun.

[alchemistra]

Newton, Einstein, Planck, and probably many more were of the awe-inspired mystical type and in their writings expressed some of the concerns mentioned here.

[BigAtheist]

What a bunch of tripe. How naturalist (i.e. tree huggers as opposed to philosophical naturalism) love to stereotype science. They trivialize the scientists motives and insights because he acts upon his wonder with an action to find the deeper wonder rather than just sit back and enjoy the ride. Empathy comes in many forms, for some it comes through wanting things to be connected, and for others its comes from true understanding the nature of connectivity..

[Chiparoo22]

Blah, blah, blah. Go back under your rock !

[sexyloser]

Trying to expand everyone's inclusive circle eh?

Noble I suppose, but I say be selfish and greedy all you want cause technology is quickly leading to an era where selfishness will just be a memory.

Btw, nice vid.

[tartsphere]

I cannot wait.

[luvbeingfree]

What song is playing?

[0ThouArtThat0]

Gaia by Ashana.

[ScorpiusIncorruptus]

By the way, I'm not trying to assert that I am anything like Fraud; my comment is more of a critique to their stance that our faculty to place something "other" to the universe is pointless, when the exercise of giving law to the swirl of 'eternal random' is hilarious in and of itself. I've fought with bouts of nihilism and fatalism and feel that I am winning those fights, and have come to see that such a mindset - not, at least, believing we are eternal - is a killer and nothing I want to feel.

[ScorpiusIncorruptus]

Hm...laws of nature? What sets these laws? There appears to be here an assumption that a pattern is noticeable, that needs to be given law; as if this random clockwork were actually created BY something. It's not mine to assert that something has indeed created anything, but it is my novelty to show that usage of mind to place any sort of witnessed pattern on a random happenstance is both contradictory to point and pointless itself. Nothing cannot law. Only something laws. Are we that something?

[BRESHEET]

excellent.

thank you for making this video!

[zezt]

beautiful video.

And notice the image of the Goddess at the end with a head looking like a mushroom cap!!

[ozjthomas]

Nice. Thank you for sharing that. I really enjoyed listening. Reminds me a bit of something I read recently about the place where emotion and logic meet, producing wisdom.

[defeata]

How do you spell the painter's name referenced in this video?

[0ThouArtThat0]

Fleminger.

[safeteyvalve]

Does the priceless rank any amount of stars?? The vast expanse empirically proven to exist, could this be the distances between each of us - and yet we connect and integrate each other, even through disease (lest we forget JOY) intimately. How did I find you? How is it that we connect in the vastness of space between and coalesce, commune and synthesize?

[Mathfails]

Music is absolutely unworldly.

[0ThouArtThat0]

haha, you know it. I recommend Eiseley as well! He was a scientist who didn't scrub away the meaning of existence along the way to knowledge, but found room for both the numinous and the factual.

[busheybushdawg]

Nice work Matt, thanks for helping to keep the wonder alive in me! :)

[alovelytime]

*****

[TWITfromURANUS]

For me, this is a truly wonderful (in every sense) piece of audio-visual media.

Superb.

(Five stars seems like an insult ¦:¬|

~featured~

[0ThouArtThat0]

thanks twit!