Storage Know How and the “Way” of the Universe

Great truths are simple and self evident, known but not realised. Humanity's capacity to understand storage is such a truth. It has huge social significance. It seeded humanity's distinctness. It formed the foundation of civilisation. It provided the impetus for modern society. It offers post modern society a way to consciously re-integrate with the “Way” of a universe we never left.

The Universe's “Way” concentrates on process not form. Processes are eternal. Form is a temporary manifestations of a process. Processes are experienced not seen. Humans re-discover this regularly. The impact of these re-discoveries are profound. Lao Tse's 2500 year ago wrote the “Tao Te Ching”. This encapsulates “the World the Universe and Everything” as a process. In this work the inquiring mind finds everything from the big bang through agricultural and military technology to “modern” thought on geology and leadership. It may be short but it is inspiring.

Humanity is well constructed to know and understand . Modernist thinking discourages faith in what we envision, understand and feel. Instead we are encouraged to believe in what we see, know and touch. We suspend belief in the unobservable. We then fail to understand what we know yet we need to know what we understand.

From the right point of view this is achievable. We can be aware of the processes creating what we see and know. Seen forms are a fleeting manifestation of processes. Those on the Way are eternal. Observed forms are temporary but renewed. Forms are the fruits of processes as mushrooms are the fruits of fungi. The fruits can be seen. The processes creating them can not. A fungi may invest a field. We only see are a few scattered mushrooms as temporary derivatives of the fungi's process..

Humanity is such a fleeting form. Compared to dinosaurs we are as nothing in our planet's story. The dinosaurs as a form, form a tiny part of our planet's story. Our planet is a stripling compared to the age of the solar system. The solar system is of minor relevance on the periphery of a galaxy. This is one of billions scattered across the universe. The Way is the process creating all this: the universe, galactic clusters, our galaxy, our star, the sun, our planet, us.

This route was taken by Lao Tse, Newton, Einstein and others. On it the creation story in the bible is accurate. On it time has little meaning. The “Big Bang” theory of the universe's creation now holds sway. This suggests that the processes of creation came into being in a very short space of time. Seven days may be too long. The creation of men and women was from indeed from the earth, the physically observable matter of the universe . The sequences by which life, and mankind, came into being are as in Genesis.

Seeing creation as distinct from science is to deny the word of God. Science affirms the reality of that understanding. There is no contradiction. People who think they know contradict those who understand. Those who understand contradict those who know. Humanity both knows and understands. Humanity is right. Literal creationists and evolutionary evangelicals are both wrong.