But perhaps the time is coming for thinkers to be braver, to push for a truer contemplation of nature, one that knows its aliveness, its spirit.
The first eye was the eye of the flesh (thought or sight), the second was the eye of reason (meditation or reflection), and the third eye was the eye of true understanding (contemplation).².²
This is the way in which the study of one has the power of drawing and converting the mind to the contemplation of true being".
So if Howell and Shepperd's theory of contemplation holds true, there would seem to be little value in knowing about risk for such diseases.
Nor is the true spirit one of contemplation alone, for the spiritual ideal of our era now is one of considerate and compassionate action.
In the Taliban's scheme of things, the only true beauty lay in the contemplation of God.
And now, from this contemplation of the true God, in whom all the treasures of wisdom and the sciences lie hidden, I think I can see a way forward to the knowledge of other things.
In Theonoston, happiness is said to coincide with a kind of inner composure understood not in terms of lack of sensibility (indolentia), but as a condition of mental vigour stemming from the contemplation of the true nature of things.
(McLuhan also refers freely to "leisure" time, but the reader will find useful for game study the distinction between leisure and recreation made by Sebastian De Grazia in Of Time, Work, and Leisure: true leisure is time for contemplation, the fertile matrix of civilization; games provide merely recreation the occupations that heal the raveled mind from its exertions).
This knowledge requires discrimination between the eternal and non-eternal and eventually a realization in contemplation that the true self merges in a universe of pure consciousness.
