How Things Work – A Brief History of Reality: Part-2 "The Power of Three" (PDF)

Part II – Understanding Reality Through Science and Religion: In Part-I we focused on human beings’ unique ability to use their senses and reason to determine the nature of their reality though the recognition and connection of patterns; particularly patterns relating to opposites. Both Eastern and Western civilizations utilized this knowledge and understanding to build highly civilized cultures based on the principles of dualism. However, within dualism also resided the possibility of not only recognizing reality but understanding and affecting it as well. This is where the East and the West separated into alternative realities; with the East focusing on the ability to directly experience the nature of reality, and the West focusing on the ability to rationally understand and alter reality. In Part-II we come to recognize how important this distinction was in transforming the primitive experience of our ancestors into the modern world and the age of science that we know today. The un