[9000 words] Oh God. What have I gotten myself into? No, it's OK David, it's OK -- you can do it. Alright. Lemme just paste in Spinoza's own introduction. I pass now to explaining those things which must necessarily follow from the essence of God, or the infinite and eternal being -- not, indeed, all …
[300 words] Mysticism will always be a couple of steps ahead of science. By science, I mean natural science, but I also mean it literally: scientia means "knowing". This is true of any kind of knowing, really -- but physics and psychology are probably the two most relevant. (The world and the mind are, after …
