[MD] The Trouble With Wilber

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Hi DMB
> 
> As Sneddon explains for those who jump to invalid conclusions:
> 
> "This is not the kind of god to whom religious worship is typically 
> addressed. Moreover, Whitehead's later atheistic (in a narrow sense) 
> position is evident in Lucien Price's book, The Dialogues of Alfred North 
> Whitehead:
> 
> God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. 
> This creative principle is everywhere, in animate and so-called inanimate 
> matter, in the ether, water, earth, human hearts. But this creation is a 
> continuing process, and 'the process is itself the actuality', since no 
> sooner do you arrive than you start on a fresh journey. In so far as man 
> partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine nature of 
> God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of 
> whether his individuality survives death to the estate of an irrelevancy. 
> His true destiny as co-creator in the universe is his dignity and his 
> grandeur. (Price, 297)
> 
> Whitehead's 'god' is not a personal entity but a principle in the universe."

Right. So is Pirsig's "Quality."




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