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Personification is describing an inanimate object or an abstract concept as if it were a living being. An example sentence exhibiting personification is "The sun shone brightly down on me as if she were shining for me alone". In religion and spirituality personification is applied to aspects of the universe which would usually be considered as being purely mechanistic such as space, time, creation and entropy. | Personification is describing an inanimate object or an abstract concept as if it were a living being. An example sentence exhibiting personification is "The sun shone brightly down on me as if she were shining for me alone". In religion and spirituality personification is applied to aspects of the universe which would usually be considered as being purely mechanistic such as space, time, creation and entropy. | ||
| − | If we consider the possibility that the mechanism | + | If we consider the possibility that the mechanism which the universe operates in accord with is actually responsible for the perceived content rather than the western perspective of perception being a product of a pre-existing physical universe, then personification is logically valid. In the eastern model, the ultimate reality is perception and the source of perception is the I-ness which all content and aspects of the ultimate mechanism are divided from. This model is actually a synthesis of the mechanistic and the personal. |
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Revision as of 02:56, 9 November 2009
Personification is describing an inanimate object or an abstract concept as if it were a living being. An example sentence exhibiting personification is "The sun shone brightly down on me as if she were shining for me alone". In religion and spirituality personification is applied to aspects of the universe which would usually be considered as being purely mechanistic such as space, time, creation and entropy.
If we consider the possibility that the mechanism which the universe operates in accord with is actually responsible for the perceived content rather than the western perspective of perception being a product of a pre-existing physical universe, then personification is logically valid. In the eastern model, the ultimate reality is perception and the source of perception is the I-ness which all content and aspects of the ultimate mechanism are divided from. This model is actually a synthesis of the mechanistic and the personal.
