Hofmann
embodied the synthesis, so unusual in our Western civilization, between the scientist and the mystic.
decided to be a chemist because I wanted to figure out the minimum components of matter. Considered that, in a civilization focused on the material world, that profession set its foundations. On the other hand, was a philosopher experimental spirit. Country inconsequential to the natural sciences. Hofmann This book seeks to give coherence to a spiritual science, vanity, has fallen for the nonsense to ignore the meaning of what he describes.
Chemistry, he explains, has concluded that the entire universe consists of a few elements. That is fascinating, but useless for establishing the idea that organizes the universe. Compared to someone who wanted to describe the magnificence of a cathedral listing their stones, wood and bricks.
In the essays in this book, do not try to spread its discovery, Hofmann plans a new way to interact with the natural sciences, understanding not as instructions and means for the plunder of nature, but as revelations of the metaphysical plan construction of the building.
The first of these trials addressed the relationship between the outside world and inner world. Brought examples of science, but without losing clarity, Hofmann explains that the image we have of the outside world is mediated by the limitations of our senses. Our eyes, for example, capture only a fraction of the known spectrum of electromagnetic waves. The outside world is the issuer and our senses are the recipients. But these receptors capture a part of the broadcast. In this part we call reality. However, this dualism transmitter / receiver, a theoretical construct that separates us from the material world to allow the scientific work has made us forget the idea that there is behind all the construction of this cathedral known universe. That idea survives in each body, is the risky and complex distribution of matter in the exact proportion that makes life possible. The dissolution of the ego in all when the receiver is open to the entire width of the reception band , leads to a spiritual state (which the Christians called mystical Unyo ) in which melts a dualism between matter and individual.
Hofmann tells us that a child in one of his walks in the woods, saw the merger for several minutes, after which he remained a sense of belonging with the environment like never felt before.
Through this book we know the thoughts of a chemist who never forgot that first experience in the woods chemistry and who gave him a means of returning.
inner world outside world, Albert Hofmann, The March Hare, 1997, 127 pp.
