THE BRIDGE

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Reflection # 6 with Professor Marsigit

A unique experience owned by individuals depicting their personal relationship with God. Our 

spirituality differs as it reflects the way we live our lives discovering the essence of our beings. 

There cannot be any other source which this epistemology is obtained from but from our own 

individual beliefs facilitated by the different religions that we belong to, thus it is adamant that we will have different perspectives on the matter.  It is vital for a being to own an experience as such because without it, we are similar to a tree without its roots. Like a tree, in which the roots is the main connection between itself and its source of life our spirituality is the bridge that transcends our phenomenon and noumena towards our source of life.

With the above in mind, we begin to have the perception and feel the sensation of two beings within us, reflected in reality by our physical being with our methods of living.  Professor has often emphasized the importance of praying when studying philosophy. I do understand and support this notion because Philosophy as I have just realized is maybe another way in which God had wanted us to learn about the abstract world that we live in through the minds of outstanding Philosophers such as Immanuel Kant. From experience during this semester, reading a few chapters in the Critique of Pure Reason, definitely has been mind blowing directing us into another dimension of time and space. Thus, without spirituality that will keep you rooted to reality, the experience keeps you afloat endlessly.

 Philosophers, reflects deeply on the contradictory nature of human life, on God’s mercy and justice, on the seasonality of life, the nature of time and space and on many other topics that engage people in this world. Life is spent on working, labouring and what do we have to show for it? Generations come and generations go, but the world stays just the same. The sun still rises and it still goes down, going wearily back to where it must start all over again. The wind blows south, the wind blows north –round and round and back again. Every river flows into the sea, but the river is not yet full. The water returns to where the rivers began, and starts all over again. With such occurences in this world without a spiritual life it is like chasing the wind.

Reference: The Holy Bible (Good News translation)