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Om!
May my speech be based on the mind; may my mind be based on speech.
O Self-effulgent One, reveal Thyself to me.
May you both be the carriers of the Veda to me.
May not all that I have heard depart from me.
I shall join together day and night through this study.
I shall utter what is verbally true;
I shall utter what is mentally true.
May That protect me; may That protect the speaker;
may That protect me; may That protect the speaker,
may That protect the teacher!
Om ! Peace! Peace! Peace!

Nada-Bindu Upanishad

 

In The Beginning

Humans are social animals. As members of the species, we are embedded within social systems from the time of our birth to the time of our death. It has always been so. We cannot survive our infancy without the support of a social order. Our natural condition as adults is to engage in social interaction. If we’re ever incarcerated, solitary confinement is the penultimate sanction for abrogation of the rules of the social order, exceeded only by execution. Should we seek to do so, our abilities to lead solitary lives devoid of social contact are characteristics more tolerated than endorsed by the social systems in which we exist. Personal isolation is not our normal posture. In the XVIIth Century, John Donne expressed this social state of being in his Meditation XVII (published in the Works of John Donne by Henri Alford):

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.

A social existence is not the result of a lifestyle selection on our parts. We are driven to seek social acceptance and social structure by our physiological makeup. Our perception of the world around us is defined by our sensory system and the stimuli for our response to that world are driven by needs that have common form across all members of the species. Hence, Donne’s reflection addresses not a personal choice, but rather a physiological condition of the biophysical person. At least since the emergence of proto-historical records and artifacts of modern humans more than 30,000 years ago, social structures have extended beyond those based purely on

 

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ComputerTheology
Intelligent Design of the World Wide Web
Bertrand du Castel and Timothy M. Jurgensen
Midori Press, Austin Texas
1st Edition 2008 (468 pp)
ISBN 0-9801821-1-5

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