Stupid question time...

[MinkSoul]

Where did the idea of "Duality of human nature" come from?
is it a right brain/left brain (intuition/logic) thing or a Female/Male (Shakti/Shiva) consept?


and what in the world is an 'Anthroposophical Physician'?

 

[Pyper]

and what in the world is an 'Anthroposophical Physician'?

A what now?

 

[MinkSoul]

i checked the spelling twice....

and ....yup....it's Anthroposophical....


i think it has to do with 'Polarities'...

 

[MinkSoul]

no answers, eh?

oh well...


watches as the thread slowly fades out of existance

 

[nitengale]

and what in the world is an 'Anthroposophical Physician'?

Sounds kinky...

 

[Beaker]

Stupid answer time....

HUH?

 

[OUTSIDER]

Where did the idea of "Duality of human nature" come from?
is it a right brain/left brain (intuition/logic) thing or a Female/Male (Shakti/Shiva) consept?


and what in the world is an 'Anthroposophical Physician'?

Not all of us are college graduates, so why not reword the question in a fashion we can all understand......thought you might have got this on your own after a few people posted "HUH'S" and suchlike.

 

[MinkSoul]

um.... i barly finnished highschool myself...

i just thought someone here might be able to help me understand the concept....

 

[OUTSIDER]

[Edited by OUTSIDER on 04-14-2001 at 07:29 AM]

 

[mig]

ANTHROPOSOPHY-A movement inaugurated by Rudolph Steiner(1861-1925) to develop the faculty of cognition and the realization of spiritual reality.[ANTHROPO+Gk sophia(wisdom)].

 

[MinkSoul]

oops.....ok... sorry about that...

i was reading this book and the author, who seemed very impressed with himself, was describing 'the Duality of human nature'.
i got lost in all of his esoteric mumbo jumbo, he seemed to explain it as eather a female/male thing within each one of us or a right brain(our intuative side)/left brain(our step-by-step logical side). Of course, i may be entirly wrong on all of this (he got....... complicated)

the 'duality' thing stuck in my mind and i was just wondering what it meant....

sorry for the confusion there, i'm sort of flying blind on this one...

 

[codeseeker]

I think the duality comes form the fact that our ancestors saw the world in balance. Everythings has an oppisite. Male/female, night/day, good/evil.
It's the balance of these opposites which keeps the world moving. It is an easy way to describe a world which is difficult at best to understand.

 

[MinkSoul]

ok....

so it's an idea handed down from our ancestors...

kind of a traditional way of looking at life?

 

[DevilMayCare]

My guess is the author is talking about our tendency to divide things rather than contemplate the interconnectedness of life.

You've probably seen the Chinese symbol for the yin and yang, two embracing halves, one white the other black. It is easier for humans to discern the halves rather than the whole. But that symbol also includes a small circle of the opposing color within the midst of each half, suggesting that any effort to split things apart, make them dual, will ultimately fail. As an example, its useful in many ways to speak of men and women as being different, but fundamentally, we're all human beings.

I think codeseeker has the idea of it. The symbols of yin and yang, feminine and masculine principles, are part of Taoism, which very much endorses balance and wholeness.

 

[DarlingBri]

Where did the idea of "Duality of human nature" come from?
is it a right brain/left brain (intuition/logic) thing or a Female/Male (Shakti/Shiva) consept?


and what in the world is an 'Anthroposophical Physician'?

An anthroposophical physician is one who believes that a person's unique history contributes to their illness. It is spiritual medicine practiced by qualified physicians, and was pioneered by a guy named Rudolf Steiner.

Duality is an ancient concept, but it's been famously studied by philosophers like Aristotle, Descartes and Kant, physicist like Heisneberg, and psychologists like Marlow.

The core concept of Duality is a metaphysical idea, or Law, stating that everything has positive and negative, a masculine and feminine, but it's applied in a million different ways:

Christianity: Jesus was both fully human and fully divine
Philosophy: the impulses for both good and evil in the human mind
Psychology: the balance between dominance and submissiveness
Physics: wave particle duality
Spirituality: the freewill to choose between materialism and spirituality

Outsider, he can't rephrase the question if he asking about a concept he isn't familiar with, now can he? Sheesh.

 

[MinkSoul]

Thank you codeseeker, DevilMayCare and Bri...

it makes what he is going on about a bit clearer...

but on the physics end...

i understand that electrons sometimes behave as waves and sometimes as particles but...

as i remember it the sub-atomic particles are each made up of 3 quarks...

and there are six quarks up/down, right/left and strange/charmed....

the universe is stranger then one can imagin...

 

[DarlingBri]

On the physics end...

Wave/Particle Duality specifically refers to the idea that an object on a quantum level is both localized (particle) and distributed (wave) in it's properties. It cannot be two things at once, yet it is.

Quantum physics is very interesting, I think, but you don't get to discuss it too often <g>

 

[MinkSoul]

now There's true duality....

"we know where the electron is.....but not where it's going"

or
"we know where the electron is going.....but not where it is"

 

[DarlingBri]

That's it exactly! What a good way to describe it, thank you!

 

[MinkSoul]

does this mean i answered my own question?




i hate it when i do that....

 

[DarlingBri]

We all have loads of info flaoting around our heads, don't we? Sometimes we just need a kick in the arse to stumble off in the right direction and connect the dots.

Then we get to go, "DUH!" and skulk off back to our books <g>

 

[MinkSoul]

well thanks for kick in the arse ....

i think

but i'm going to give that particular book a rest...


gotta go start the barbeque....

but i Do want to thank you for the help....

 

[DarlingBri]

No problem, you're welcome to my floating bits of info any time

Have a good BBQ!