The findings of the Austrian economists, starting with an affiliate economist Milton Friedman, opened my eyes to the importance to the invisible forces in our world.
The spiritual realm cannot be discounted, for God is spirit, and man at his core is spirit, received from the breath of God.
The many forces that move the universe and which characterize daily life are also invisible and a matter of faith. The operation of markets, language, customs, culture, the realm of higher layered realities which physicists have identified: these realities cannot be attested to but by faith, by taking the word and inference of a third element to substantiate the present which we cannot sense yet discern as present.
The phenomena of respecting the invisible forces is not unique to the Austrian economists. The Israelites acknowledge the presence and power of the Lord God, who by His Word spoke into existence the universe and all that grows and multiplies.
Then the Chinese thinkers, specifically Lao-Tze and Daoism, which manifests a calm respect in "The Way"
The Eastern impulse suggests a recognition for forces which are not immediately relevant to the intellect, and which require resting rather than working in order for everything to work out as expected.
The dominant themes in these Eastern modes of thought include:
1. Do nothing, and watch great things happen
2. Believe in the unseen
3. Let natural and supernatural forces propel themselves
I find the connection with the ease of these principles and their Oriental origin very intriguing.
The West indeed can learn a lot from the East -- that reason and thinking cannot produce the solutions to the problems which arise in our communities.
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