Yesterday I made reference to the post-modern world we’re living in. The crux of this age seems to be a clashing of different world-views. These world-views have been with us for centuries in the case of some, and untold millennia in the case of others. It’s yet to be seen whether we will merge those world-views to synthesize new ones, or whether certain ones will die out, or whether we’ll move beyond them all to other ones that expand our understandings of our selves and our universe in massive, profound ways. These are the sorts of things I’ve been thinking about lately. And I found a book along these same lines that I started reading yesterday: Cosmos and Psyche by Richard Tarnas. So far it is a very well written book on the subject.

Anyway, I’ve been thinking about how to talk to the kids about world-views. It can be a complex subject, and I imagine that it will be an ongoing discussion as the kids grow. But it seems to me to be a very important subject, since as I said, this is the crux of the age we live in. At this point I will try to keep it simple and let them show me how much of this topic they are ready to digest. Today I think I’ll take them to see the movie Waterhorse: Legend of the Deep. It’s a kid’s movie in live action about a Scottish family who finds and raises a baby Loch Ness monster. This mixture of reality and fantasy is everywhere you look these days. This is yet another aspect of the thing I’m talking about. Anyway, it should be a good opportunity to talk about different world-views with the kids, and see what they understand about that topic.

- Minke