From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article ,   
    haiticare2011@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > Yep it was Fechner who stared too long at the sun. Here is a general quote   
   > from   
   > wkipedia:   
   > Fechner's world concept was highly animistic. He felt the thrill of life   
   > everywhere, in plants, earth, stars, the total universe. Man stands midway   
   > between the souls of plants and the souls of stars, who are angels.[14] God,   
   > the soul of the universe, must be conceived as having an existence analogous   
   > to   
   > men. Natural laws are just the modes of the unfolding of God's perfection. In   
   > his last work Fechner, aged but full of hope, contrasts this joyous "daylight   
   > view" of the world with the dead, dreary "night view" of materialism.   
   > Fechner's   
   >  work in aesthetics is also important. He conducted experiments to show that   
   > certain abstract forms and proportions are naturally pleasing to our senses,   
   > and gave some new illustrations of the working of aesthetic association.   
   >  Charles Hartshorne saw him as a predecessor on his and Alfred North   
   > Whitehead's philosophy and regretted that Fechner's philosophical work had   
   > been   
   > neglected for so long.[15]   
   >   
   > Also, it mentions his book on "Life after Death," with a forward by William   
   > James.   
   >   
   > Many of these "scientific romantics" have come back into favor due to quantum   
   > mechanics impact on our world view.   
   >   
   > Sounded sympatico to you, and I find interesting.   
      
   Thanks for that, and my world view is also somewhat animistic.   
      
   I don't recommend that anyone repeat the sun stare, and I don't   
   plan to.   But the facts that the sun stare was brief   
   and that I had discarded my very strong near-sighted   
   glasses such that the focus of the sun's light did   
   not form on my retina meant that I didn't suffer any   
   lasting eye damage.   
      
   --   
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   "But once there was a darkness, deep and endless night   
   You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light" (Sarah McLachlan)   
      
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