THE LOSS

Separating the mind from the divine and sacred ground as a significant communication authority to God created meaning gaps in modern humans’ spiritual lives.

Humans become desperate when they do not know whether the voices rising from that inner emptiness belong to them, to evil or to benevolent forces, to the devil or the angels, or to the Divine Creator. Then, a human could not hear the Divine Creator’s most resounding voice whispering the purpose of creation within that polyphonic choir. It was hard to listen to His voice! The color in His voice and the meaning of His words, has disappeared in the cacophony. Humans are created with the potential to give meaning but let the purpose of life slip from their hands. Absolute gaps of meaning eventually drive many people to mental illnesses, and to suicides in more tragic cases.

Humans became a being of the mind. And, if this mind does not turn towards the truth, it remains attached to specific, individual realities or assumptions of multiple minds. The cutting of the cables connecting to the divine source (revelations) leads to the conclusion that mentally generated values only concern one’s self. As long as each individual searches for their own truth, many subjective truths that are different from the Divine Truth arise.

This is the result of modern philosophy, which has created an insurmountable gap between Mind / Soul and Me / the Other.

Therefore, we do not have any factual information regarding the commonness of values that a person produces in his/her mind. Since different identities and values will arise from various biological and psychological structures, it is impossible to measure the commonality of one’s mind with another’s. Still, we can assume that we have some shared values of reason.

We can trace the historical roots of the modern philosophy- science attitude back to Aristotle.

According to Aristotle, there was complete harmony between the laws of Being and the laws of the Mind. The Being was able to dictate the rules of existence to our minds. Aristotle said: “In a world of concrete realities which surrounds us, we can explain the knowledge of the manifesting beings as particles and as a whole, moving from the potential to the actual state in the apparent world, through the knowledge of their concepts in our minds by connecting, separating, combining, classifying, and categorizing.”

With this attitude, Aristotle has allowed the development of the natural sciences, but he also has disconnected contemplation from heart and revelation, placing it at the mind’s disposal only. From that moment on, philosophy has ceased to be an endeavor, a research, a mastery of life to make human life meaningful. Alas, it has turned into an institution that researches knowledge with the help of logic by using the human thinking procedures within correct thinking laws.

The same gap, initiated by Aristotle between the mind and soul (heart) has deepened in modern philosophy with the development of natural sciences. Aristotle placed the cause of ‘teleology’ in nature, meaning that every being is directed to its best possible state. Once again, with the dismantling of this cause, nature too has been turned into a lifeless form, a pile of aimless objects. This statement is the real cause of the quarrel between Galileo and the church, and the point was never that the earth revolves around the sun!

The philosophers influenced by this trend gave importance to rational knowledge instead of intuitive knowledge. The last great heir of this line is Descartes.

With the Cartesian World Design, everything started to occur in the human mind in the form of separate beings and bipolar contradictions such as human/nature, mind/ faith, body/spirit, science/religion. In Descartes’ Res Cogitans/ es Extensa duality, the Being is subordinated to the subject’s thinking potential, thus the whole Being is imprisoned in the person’s mind because the person assumes that “nothing, that is not the subject of his/her knowledge, that s/he cannot evaluate in his/her mind, has any existential value.”

Now, the Being has been completely expelled from the stage of philosophy as a lifeless being and it is transformed into a mental information as a correctly functioning machine produced by the reflexive ability, cogito of the human mind.

In the modern age philosophy, mathematics has been the basis of logical reasoning. Religious philosophers have always placed mathematics upon a divine foundation. We have seen examples of this process since Pythagoras. Explaining the “golden proportion” in the universe in terms of mathematics was a great discovery.

Galileo very clearly states the harmony between the divine and the mathematics:“There are two kinds of revelation: One is the Bible; the other is mathematics.” On the other hand, Einstein, whom we describe as a religious scientist and philosopher, stated that mathematics is “perfect”, considering its perfection within the axiom system. Axiom is the basic proposition or the fundamental belief, on which unproven but provable ideas or beliefs are produced.

We owe the excellence of the philosophically consistent and unambiguous systems, of which we see the highest point in Plato’s teachings, - to the axiomatic feature of mathematics. Perfection is achieved within the system by adhering to the axiom and when the axioms are changed, the system can be changed accordingly. These unprovable fundamental beliefs, which are not required to be proved, are called faith in religion and postulate in geometry. In the New Age, the idea of creation is replaced by mathematics, as a means of expression that will save us from relativity.

In order to comprehend the world, the “mind” contains a potential for mathematics that is included within the concepts of perfection and logic in the mind’s structure. This facility provides the community with thinking Selves. Intelligence is the foundation on which the intersubjective, Selves’ partnership is based.

In nature, we cannot find an equivalent of the structure “perfection” and “logic” and “mathematics’ ‘. These ideas are placed in our minds a priori (pre-experimental / congenital). It is God Himself who does this.

Thanks to this granted skill, Socrates was able to enable a slave with no previous knowledge of mathematics solve a geometry problem. Similarly, Einstein was able to obtain his knowledge of the world with experimentation only through a roll of paper and a pencil, without consulting the world of experimentation.

Descartes, who says “I cannot doubt that I doubt”, places himself against himself in the last stage of doubt. He connects existence by reaching certain and obvious truths with the method of doubting and leaving the questions behind:

How do the ’Self’ arrange and organize this scattered view of the universe in its mind?

How can it deduct the cause and effect, reason and result relationship from this scattered collection of phenomena of the universe?

How can the Self and Non-Self build the world together?

Descartes divides this association into two components as Self and Non-Self and tries to analyze it by opposing his Self. Descartes’ attempt to find himself and build his world based on himself, is referred to as the Analysis of the Self after him. He embarks on a challenging adventure by dividing, weeding, disassembling and applying doubt as a method in this disassembly. Not only is the suspicion here an expression of a psychic distrust, but perhaps a logical/methodical doubt challenges all the acknowledgments ever acquired. Philosophy works with and through this rational doubt.

“I doubt everything,” says Descartes.

“All moral values, God’s existence, of what I know, what I see myself, everything... And amid all these doubts, there is one thing true that I doubt... I cannot doubt that I doubt it.”.

Doubting what you doubt is a paradox, it is a logical error, it is absurd. Thus, he can reach the basis, the foundation of the action of trying to destroy and rebuild.

The modern mind objectifies and alienates nature by dividing the Self into an evaluating Self, Ego and an evaluated Self, Non-ego, and it is possessed by a desire to reach universal, absolute, immutable laws which provide a scientific confidence.

This claim also created the delusion that the same mind can transform nature, society and human life into something material and objectify society as well as the human beings, just like it did with nature!

However, this optimistic rationality was transformed into a hierarchical tool of domination over time due to its political and social dimensions.

It initially resulted in the transformation of nature into a tool and then it transformed humans into being a tool rather than a goal.

The same understanding is placed at the center of this Absoluteness and Universality, and it sees technology as a means of struggle in order to cope with nature. It labels other societies that do not conform to their “standard of life” as primitive, anachronistic, and undeveloped societies. Again, this rises from its assertion to stand for the “absolute and universal good and perfect” in the world.

Its journeys to the other, and its discovery of new places are not an effort to understand and explore, but it is only an aim to collect information about the other, and then to forcefully pull them to their definition of standardization and transform them into beings that live according to their own conditions of existence. In Hegel’s words, it “identifies and simulates”.

The aim is not to serve people but to profit from human labor and the potential market. Within the framework of this understanding, today’s idea of offering nature to human beings’ service means presenting it to their sense of indulgence in the name of profitability.

The humans’ imprisonment in the mind in the 17th century resulted in the enslaving of people with the discoveries, destruction of others who could not be enslaved through genocides, wars and assimilation policies. By the 20th century, the world turned into a bloodbath with the two World Wars...

Even the abolition of slavery was not due to respect for human rights, but it only stemmed from the fact that slavery was no longer profitable, and it was becoming rather expensive. The same worldview change that declared indigenous peoples inferior thus declared Earth dead and put barriers between humans and the world through the Eco Apartheid illusion. The false assumption that the earth is a dead inert material has destroyed the living, biodiverse living world, making it a raw material mine for inefficient and wasteful companies, an industrial system, and an industrial pollution pond.

This cartesian worldview, which created hierarchies among people and divided humanity on the basis of race, gender, religion, class, also marginalized living things for its own interests, treating them as objects to be possessed and manipulated. This misleading and manipulating fake anthropocentrism has promptly created, as they call it, the philanthropists of today.

Nature, and ultimately the human is being transformed from being an organism into a mechanism!

Today, the being, as well as the world, has been changed from being a subject into an inanimate object!

Cartesian world design, with the aid of the theory of evolution, stripped the spirit of individualism through dualism. Stuck in the societal laws of the materialist approach in a dizzying world, modern humans are sentenced to live with schizophrenic and bipolar personalities that consist of many Selves, identities, and are thus divided into many parts.

It is a system in which each individual is isolated from his/her thing in itself (the essence, soul or substance) and is taught to live as if it does not exist!

We are expected to live like a robot, go to work, or shopping, make babies and always be in a rush until death. We come home in a hurry, eat in a hurry, we show our love to our children in a hurry, we even make love in a hurry. Like anxious birds knowing what to do, we go from one end to the other without knowing what we are looking for.

The soul?

In such a system, is it possible for us to feel the only part that belongs to God?

The system does not allow anybody to feel the sacred side of the Self, not even for a moment. Life conditions, we say!

Are we talking about the real conditions that life demands us to live under or are we the ones who make ourselves be crushed under these conditions?

Aren’t you aware of how consciously these conditions are created? It is exceptionally diabolical that everything is deliberately designed in a way that makes it impossible for people to feel their God’s side!