The common mother of art, philosophy, science, and religion is Wonder. The world pours out torrents of wonders upon us and it is the most human thing in the world to ask, \u201cWhy?\u201d\u00a0 In antiquity, nobody had set up walls between these four different ways of exploring the wonders of the world.\u00a0 Consequently, Solomon could write Proverbs and meditate on the ways of God and see no conflict between doing that and learning about plants, birds, and bugs.<\/p>\n
Likewise, Pythagoras saw no conflict between thinking about mathematics and speculating about the transmigration of souls.\u00a0 Given that numbers and spirits are both real while not participating in the slightest in time, space, matter or energy, there\u2019s no particular reason he should not have done so.<\/p>\n
Likewise, the Magi saw no conflict between astronomy and astrology.\u00a0 Like pretty much everybody in antiquity, they regarded creation as an interconnected thing and saw the work of man as being about trying to figure out what the connections were.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s still the work of artists, philosophers, scientists, theologians\u2013and children\u2013today.\u00a0 And the more we learn about the connections between things, the weirder it all gets:<\/p>\n