A New Spirit of seeing things
26
Jan
Separation between mind and spirit is a contemporary construction, as well as the
relationship with objects, technology and other objectivities, such as money, for example, exert on Western thought, especially, certain mistrust.
The objective world that exists outside man must be understood in order to have a good relation with him, modernity says that man must “dominate” it, but nature and objects seem to rebel, not because machines control us, but because its use requires behavior changes and new relationships with society and context.
The existence of evil, which Augustine of Hippo said was the “absence of good,” and he was a Manichaean (the struggle of good and evil), and that for society in crisis is a set of symbolic facts, war, challenges among rival twists, xenophobia and other phobias, is closed in the fact that we live in an “evil” context that needs to be renewed.
One of the first things that must be renewed is thought, says Edgar Morin, but they also say good spiritualities and authors who work on human subjectivity.
A world without feeling is not because of the machines, but of the thought and social relations that surround us that are complicated in the current context.
In Mark 1: 27 we read: “And they were all amazed, and asked one another, What is this? A new teaching given with authority: He commands even the evil spirits, and they obey! ”
The fact that Jesus “healed” was for many at that time a new fact, with a certain amount of “exorcism” because of the fact that many diseases were not known, clarification about many things was obscure, but they did not fail to understand that there was ” a new teaching given with authority, “that is, a new spirit of seeing things
