Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The World According to Physics | The Greatest Physicist of our Age | The Science of Reality [ Superb Explorations for the Layperson]

great thanks, Cornelius, thanks for the link to a Google search for waḥdat al-wujud , Unity of Being as understood in Islamic thought, particularly as developed  by the great Ibn Arabi.

i would love to combine depth and breadth of research and writing in African, Western, Asian and Islamic thought at the intersection of the visual and verbal arts, philosophy, spirituality and science.

great thanks

toyin

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 05:13, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

Great thanks, Cornelius.

Deeply honoured.

toyin

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 03:45, Cornelius Hamelberg <hamelbergcornelius4@gmail.com> wrote:

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju,

Thank you for constantly reminding us about the waḥdat al-wujud and the marriage/ confluence of  metaphysics and physics 

In my humble opinion,  if one doesn't already exist, a special chair should be created for you to take a serious look into the various schools of African - Nigeria-based spirituality, Ibadan, Ife, not just a research position...

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 20:47, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

great thanks, Cornelius.

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 17:06, Cornelius Hamelberg <hamelbergcornelius4@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Oluwatoy-in,

I hope you'll be there in time .

With regard to our place in the universe/multiverse, I guess that these kinds of theoretically scientific peeps into transcendence and the vast vastness of God in and out of space and time being anchored in the understanding of the little ego brain known as "i" is a fitting rejoinder to any disagreeableness or disagree-able anti-thesis from e.g. Alagba Agbetuyi in that his last critical put-down of your humble efforts at opening up our minds, if not our souls.

For some of us, an interest in those kinds of questions started with the popular bestseller "The Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Capra circa 1975, easy enough for dudes without a grounding in theology  or theoretical physics or Hindu mythology, to read and understand.

Nowadays, there's no excuse for not understanding everything when we have gurus and popularisers  such as Neil deGrasse Tyson and Michio Kaku in addition to whom we have had Stephen Hawking at hand, to teach the common man and to stimulate our sense  of awe and our not so mundane imagination.

You may believe that it's the year 2020 A.D. and we're back to "The Roaring Twenties" but with regard to the Hebrew Scriptures and the Hebrew Calendar which postulates that we are now living in the year 5780 after the creation ( before dear Sister Gloria in Excelsis Emeagwali starts getting excited about the age of  the pyramids, the Pharaonic dynasties and the roots of Scottish freemasonry, may I kindly refer us to  Gerald Schroeder, in particular, his " The Science of God" in which he sets out to explain how the year  5780 may not be a too farfetched time reckoning, after all…

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 at 12:57, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

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