“I closer to a panentheist. Do I believe in a personal God? My response to this question, were I as wise as he, would be something like Carl Jung's [response (Ѻ) to query: ‘do you still believe in god?]: I don’t need to believe, I know.”— Matthew Segall (2013), YouTube forum post (Ѻ) about belief in god
Dissertation = Alfred Whitehead + Friedrich Schelling + Rudolf Steiner(add discussion)
A labeled version of Segall's Facebook Plato and Aristotle at the “School of Athens” avatar, with Whitehead's process philosophy in hand. [5] |
“The key notion from which [the construction of a cosmology] should start is that the energetic activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity entertained in life.”— Alfred Whitehead (c.1910), cited by Segall in 2014 lecture [6]
“It is very certain that it is the effect of conversation with the beauty of the soul, to beget a desire and need to impart to others the same knowledge and love. If utterance is denied, the thought lies like a burden on the man. Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told: somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas; sometimes with chisel on stone; sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music; but clearest and most permanent, in words.”— Ralph Emerson (c.1910), description quote of 0ThouArtThat0 (Ѻ) video channel