The Scientism of our So-Called Common Sense

And here's something else from the book of the last several posts that I like.

"Awakening to the original seed of one's soul and hearing it speak may not be easy. How do we recognize its voice; what signals does it give?"

From my vantage point in life I now understand better the signals I have missed. Signals that were there but which I ignored or looked for in the wrong places. Continuing. . .

"Before we can address these questions, we need to notice our own deafness, the obstructions that make us hard of hearing: the reductionism, the literalism, the scientism of our so-called common sense." (emphasis mine).

He goes on to say that there are "meanings that don't slide in fast, free, and easy, but are encoded particularly in the painful pathologized events that perhaps are the only ways the gods can wake us up."

I wrestle with this because this literalism is my nature. And such nature has been supported and amplified by my choice of occupation as an R&D engineer/scientist. Also, it is how I've been nurtured in what has to be one of the most rationalist of Protestant groups. Will continue to struggle with this because that's how one learns.