Science and the Sense of the Holy - Loren Eiseley

reading an essay by the naturalist Loren Eiseley about the two main temperaments found among scientists: the reductionist and the awe-inspired.

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Science & Technology

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• loren
• eiseley
• science
• religion
• nature
• freud
• darwin
• reductionism
• mysticism

[luvbeingfree]

What song is playing?

[0ThouArtThat0]

Gaia by Ashana.

[defeata]

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

[0ThouArtThat0]

Fleminger.

[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.

[TWITfromURANUS]

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

Superb.

(Five stars seems like an insult ¦:¬|

~featured~

[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.

[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]

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

[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.