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Hi Douglas,

Matt Segall has written a fascinating book on the deep relationship and accordance between Schelling and Whitehead: Physics of the World Soul: Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology. I loved it.

Here’s a quotation from his book:

“The philosophies of Schelling and Whitehead can evidently be understood to orbit around a common intuition, that the modern ontological bifurcation separating the physical from the psychical can be healed only through an aesthetic act of creative imagination, an act that allows us not only to think but, by thinking organically, also to feel the world in a new way. Modern philosophy since Descartes has blocked the way toward such healing by severing reflective thought from bodily affect and perception, elevating the former to the only source of truth and dismissing the latter as fundamentally confused, philosophically irrelevant, or at best of secondary importance. Schelling and Whitehead sought a new truce between thinking and feeling, an integration that would welcome both modes back into philosophy as essential ingredients in any scientific scheme seeking to coherently integrate humanity, the cosmos, and the divine. They recognized that new modes of thinking inspire new modes of perception, and that new conceptually synthesized perceptions then feedback onto thinking, generating an iterative and cumulative cycle of learning.”

Segall, Matthew. Physics of the World-Soul: Alfred North Whitehead’s Adventure in Cosmology (p. 14). SacraSage Press. Kindle Edition.

Warm regards,

Bill