David F. Haight
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David Frederick Haight (born 1941) is professor of philosophy at Plymouth State University and has taught there for over 30 years. With a BA in philosophy from Stanford University and a masters and PhD in philosophy from Northwestern University, his work has aimed at the preservation of philosophy as "love of wisdom". In his view this is to be reached through contemplation of the Platonic forms found throughout Nature. He also believes that through meditation one effortlessly gains contact to the "unified field" by quietening down the mind and allowing it to experience consciousness at its most fundamental level.
In 1992, David ran for the US Senate under the Natural Law Party.
In 2004, David and his wife Marjorie published their major contribution to the field of philosophy, The Scandal of Reason: or Shadow of God, 731 pages long(including title page)- making it the "number of God" in his own words reversed (137) by obsolute coincidence.
A review cited by the publishers on the book's back cover says:
The Scandal of Reason is a truly breath-taking work which takes the full measure of philosophy, as well as integrates it with quantum-relativity physics, set theory, geometry, chaos theory, cosmology, religion, ethics, and even politics, in order to prepare the way for superunification in the forthcoming century.
The book begins by covering the "Devaluation of Being" which it sees as emphasized by critical philosophers throughout history, and from there covers classical arguments for God's existence. Haight examines these arguments from the level of modern logic and then goes on to cover the knowledge gained in recent centuries concerning the theory of relativity and modern mathematics. The book concludes that truth itself is a "scandal" to our common understanding of reason and rational thought. True understanding is only acquired through "transrational" thinking and such thinking can only be cultured through contact with the infinite source in daily meditation.
