Embracing the uncertainty principle
By Valson Thampu
Marx’s indictment of religion as the opium of the masses points to a core human perplexity. What is reality? How are we to relate to it? Or, how are we to not mistake reality, and run amok for it? In the old Indian tale of the elephant and the blind men, the elephant is real. Each one of them relates to it but only in part. The separate limbs they touch pertain to the elephant. But, in themselves, they are not elephants. The elephant is all of what they quarrel about, and a great deal more.