Wilber, Ken - Marriage of Sense and Soul [sociology, science, development]

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1、THEMARRIAGEOFSENSEANDSOULINTEGRATINGSCIENCEANDRELIGIONRANDOMHOUSENEWYORKKENWILBERCopyright©1998byKenWilberAllrightsreservedunderInternationalandPan-AmericanCopyrightConventions.PublishedintheUnitedStatesbyRandomHouse,Inc.,NewYork,andsimultaneouslyinCanadabyRandomHouseofCanadaLimited,To

2、ronto.LIBRARYOFCONGRESSCATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATIONDATAWilber,Ken.Themarriageofsenseandsoul:integratingscienceandreligion/KenWilber.p.cm.Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.ISBN0-375-50054-51.Religionandscience.I.Title.BL240.2.W5261998215—dc2197-22787RandomHousewebsiteaddress:http:/

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5、PIRITPARTIVTHEPATHAHEADTHEGREATHOLARCHYINTHEPOSTMODERNWORLDTHEINTEGRALAGENDAFURTHERREADINGANOTETOTHEREADERThereisnothingthatwillcurethesensesbutthesoul,andnothingthatwillcurethesoulbutthesenses.—OSCARWILDEItishardtosayexactlywhenmodernsciencebegan.Manyscholarswoulddateitatroughly1600,w

6、henbothKeplerandGalileostartedusingprecisionmeasurementtomaptheuniverse.Butonethingiscertain:startingfromwhateverdatewechoose,modernsciencewas,inmanyimportantwaysandrightfromthestart,deeplyantagonistictoestablishedreligion.Mostoftheearlyscientists,ofcourse,remainedtruebelievers,genuine

7、lyembracingtheGodoftheChurch;manyofthemsincerelybelievedthattheyweresimplydiscoveringGod'sarchetypallawsasrevealedinthebookofnature.Andyet,withtheintroductionofthescientificmethod,auniversalacidwasreleasedthatwouldslowly,inevitably,painfullyeatintoandcorrodethecenturies-oldsteelofrel