THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM: A Trilogy
As a Sci-Fi novel The Three-Body Problem presents yet another exciting version of how individual effort can save a world threatened with extinction–a favorite theme today in the Arts. In this essay I show how Cixlin (the author) instead reveals, through the “hidden soul” in his text, that our technological world is determined solely by the will-to-power, now working through the fundamental NATURAL principle of self-preservation. I also demonstrate how his total omission of an equally fundamental SPIRITUAL principle from the novel—that of willing self-sacrifice for the sake of another—reinforces the likelihood of our collective doom.
The soul phenomenologist thus reads text, language, as a speaking of soul as it enters her inner being and brings her into participation with the movement of negative reality, for as long as it lasts. The withdrawal and coming-to-be of such soul phenomena are simultaneous. Soul phenomenology ‘happens’ when the human interlocutor receives the soul movement, understands its ego-alien nature even now in identity with her human being and proceeds to generate an art form expressive of that unity-in-difference.
Netflix is releasing a TV series based on the book at the end of March 2024.
