It's hard enough to get some agreement on what is in the physical realm much less the metaphysical. Some are content with a material universe, some are satisfied with a particular immaterial construct that explains and defines everything and some, perhaps the majority, have a combination of both held in varying degrees, ratios, and emphases. Common phrases like we're all alone, he's so heavenly minded, he's no earthly good, and the opposite of that, plus in the world but not of the world similarly I'm just a poor wayfaring stranger, which in more modern times does not apply to many religious, and God is on our side are just a few expressions of or approaches to living. There are also sayings about saying anything about the areas that even angels fear to tread. But when the options don't satisfy, help, fit, make sense or get you to where you need to go, further explanations are sought.
The universe, and the part of it that we get to live on, is a wonderment as are all the creatures except snakes, mice and flies. The human body is a masterful construction that has an integrated economy of function on the highest level. To be able to contemplate and explore how humans came to be, along with other classical questions, points to a dimension that questions if such complexity could come from a singular source or modality. It seems as if some have made the answer to that a sole determinate. Which comes up short when you consider how many more mysteries need to be explored. But in doing so, a couple factors are in play, the limit or capacity for man to know and understand, and what he has done with what is already known.
However, you can't discount all that humans have accomplished and the amount of civility they have been able to obtain. It appears that humans do well with all things physical noting the many changes over time and especially the last couple centuries. One can only imagine someone who was born in the last of the horse and buggy days and lived long enough to witness the landing on the moon. Likewise, imagine someone who started first grade with a thick pencil and a Big Chief tablet and lived long enough to make the most of all the electronic devices that have changed the way we learn and communicate.
Cities symbolize and contain so much about humanity. Most include nature in someway, but it could never be compared to standing on top of a 14,000ft. mountain or finding a forest meadow that for a moment is all your own. Yet there is something to the bright lights of a big city and what they provide even with all the problems that have been a constant.
In all of this, there is the something more that is considered in many, many ways. You would think that would be enough and to add more or in a different way could easily be seen as a fool's errand. But the place between the physical and the metaphysical doesn't seem like a boundary but an expanding zone from which one can develop an understanding that includes something more in a more mystical way and the harsh realities and neglected wisdom from the margins of life. Such an approach will be discussed in this blog, but for now, this painting attributed to Bansky answers the question of why one senses something more and why it's important to make something of it.
It is not necessary to eliminate others in order to have a place to be.
Credits: Huff Post, Bansky, Wikimedia, Digntaswpp
