Rip Parker
6 min readSep 10, 2021

RECONCILIATION OF OPPOSITES — BLENDING

All extremes have their opposites. One cannot exist without the other. Extremes tend to cause a system to become imbalanced, and if not motified by an some force, eventually to fly apart. The human being is a system.

Not an easy task, being counter intuitive as it is, balancing opposing forces is fundamental to every aspect of our lives. Yes, that is a big statement. It can sound presumptuous and prideful. Perhaps it is, but I, for one, know no greater philosophic endeavor.

I will do what little I can to elucidate, and find a little humility. Humility does not…

Rip Parker

Geophysicist, lawyer, mediator, student of Jung, phenomenology, semiotics