Blog [01]
Date: 2010/06/26
FINDING SOPHIA is a research blog recording the
flow of unconscious knowledge from the right-brain mind and/or
higher Self. This information was downloaded using a pendulum as
instructed at the end of the second series.
Dualism and Reason
Download Layout:
- [01] Subject - Dualism
- [02] External characteristics - I Ching
- [03] Internal characteristics - Peace
- [2+3] Synthesis - Language
- [04] Core - Illumination
- [05] Consequence - Noosphere
- [06] Responsibility - Liberation
- [07] Probable outcome - Literalists
- [08] Conditioning - Crystal
- [09] Attitude - Dionysus
- [10] Right action - Helping
- [11] Qty and Quality - Development
- [12] Objective - Reason
- [13] Outcome - Balance
Synopsis:
The subject
matter calls for a new system of reasoning to engage higher mental
faculties that our current binary system is able to do using natural
language. This reference is perfect as a start for this new series.
It expands on this with
a description of what this unconscious thing looks like by
giving us Jung’s explanation of the I-Ching, which is the greatest
oracle of all time. Jung wrote that we need a method of enquiry with
as few conditions as possible to force Nature to give us an answer
that we can interpret with our intuition.
The internal
characteristic rounds this off by linking this dowsing method to
the interplay of Yin and Yang to the peace in Tao. Treating the
unconscious as an equal partner will bring peace, and so will
restoring the balance between the two brain hemispheres through
whole-brain thinking.
The synthesis of
these two to three to four is quite obvious insofar as it relates to
this method as an oracle that speaks out from books. It forces one
to think of the learning potential in being able to access this
massive knowledge base under the direction of a higher aspect of
Self that supports personal growth.
To test this we need to
look at what s4 introduces as the core issue to be raised
here. It refers us to the creative thinking process that has stages
of incubation and illumination, which is when we upload the problem
into the unconscious and then wait to download the answer when
ready. Another way of stating this is when we wait on the
right-brain hemisphere to finish processing the problem and to relay
the answer back to consciousness under mysterious circumstances. The
core issue here is that this process is hardly ever acknowledged,
even at creativity conferences, because of a fear of the
unconscious. This fear is stems from a prejudice against right-brain
thinking that has been around for thousands of years, which the
majority of people are not aware of. One must first become aware of
this prejudice.
As a consequence
(of s1-4) we get directed to Pierre de Chardin’s notion of the
Noosphere as the collective consciousness of our planet that
contains ‘super-vision and super-ideas’. It makes us aware of the
fact that others have already given this collective database a name,
and it is not the internet. This is about becoming aware of a
parallel Net, a mental one, a supermind.
In s6 we get a look at
our responsibility, which is to liberate ourselves from the
conditioning that prevents us from seeing the truth of our
interconnectedness and the true realization of this natural state.
The sad reality is that
the Literalists are the masses and are still driving us down the
wrong path even after thousands of years. The probable outcome
extends on this trend in(s7). To change this we need a breakthrough
in how we communicate with the unconscious Mind.
The download offers a
way to overcome the conditioning (in s8) and the attitude (in
s9) to adopt to help bring this all about. Our belief systems
reflect a conditioning that separates us from our pagan nature so it
is fitting that we are advised to adopt a Dionysian attitude.
This leads us to the
right action one should take, and here in s10 we get told that
helping "typically involves learning, as in unlearning, relearning,
new learning.
In terms of just how
much helping is required we get insight in the paradox of modern
life from Marx. There is a balance to strive for.
This is supported by
the objective for taking this action, which is to develop the
faculty of reason to arrive at objectivity. Fromm believed that if
one's capacity for reason is restricted or damaged, its use in all
other sectors will create illusionary perceptions.
In s13 the final
outcome is about realizing one’s personal destiny. This fits
with the ancient teachings that we are wiped clean of any knowledge
of our destiny at birth. It is only by working with the unconscious
mind that one can actively participate in following this path.
This download
introduces a new method with which to engage one’s unconscious in a
more transparent and meaningful way. It opens us up to Self-directed
knowledge.
[01] Dualism
Subject s[01] is
DUALISM: This is great start for using a pendulum. It suggests that
the download will deal with the limitations of language and how this
dowsing method offers raises unconscious knowledge.
Charles Hoy Fort … he is attacking the mental structure of civilized
man. He is completely out of sympathy with the two-stroke motor
which is the driving power of modern reasoning. Two strokes: Yes and
No, Positive and Negative, Modern knowledge and modern intelligence
are based on this binary system …
Where Fort is opposed to Descartes is in his insistence that we
should envisage the general from an angle which would allow the
particular to be defined in its relation thereto, in such a way that
every object or thing would be seen as intermediaries between other
things.
What he demands is a new mental
structure, capable of recognizing as real the intermediate
states between the yes and the no … In other words, a
system of reasoning which is
higher than binary and would be, as it were , a third eye for the
intelligence. To express what this third eye perceives, language
(which is a binary product, an organized conspiracy and limitation)
is not sufficient.
[Pauwels
I. & Bergier J. The Morning of the Magicians, 1979, Granada
Publishing]
[02] I Ching
The external
characteristics is to be found in the symbol s[02] I CHING, which
introduces the Chinese way of thinking to the problem raised in the
subject s[01]:
The exact method of divining is explained … Jung's description of
this process is reprinted here (Jung and Pauli,1955) … The I Ching,
which we can well call the experimental basis of classical Chinese
philosophy, is one of the oldest
known methods for grasping a situation as a whole and thus
placing the details against a cosmic background -
the interplay of Yin and Yang. This grasping of the whole is
obviously the aim of science as well, but it is a goal that
necessarily lies very far off because science, whenever possible
proceeds experimentally and in all cases statistically …
The workings of nature in her unrestricted wholeness are completely
excluded. If we want to know what these workings are, we need a
method of enquiry which imposes the fewest possible conditions, or
if possible no conditions at all, and then leaves Nature to answer
out of her fullness. …
Chinese sages … supposed that the same living reality was expressing
itself in the psychic state as in the physical. But in order to
verify such a hypothesis, some limiting condition was needed in this
apparently limitless experiment, namely a definite form of physical
procedure, a method or technique which forced Nature to answer in
even and odd numbers … this naturally presupposes an intuitive
knowledge of the meaning of each oracle figure …
The interpretations formulate the inner unconscious knowledge that
corresponds to the state of unconsciousness at the moment, and this
psychological situation coincides with the chance result of the
method …
The method, like all divinatory or intuitive techniques, is based on
an acausal or synchronistic connective principle.
[Hook D.ff. The I-Ching and You, 1973, Routledge & Kegan
Paul]
[03] Peace
Symbol s[03] is PEACE:
it may refer to the dualistic relationship between the two brain
hemispheres that is also male:female and how harmony is restored
when communication respects the unconscious (read as also mute right
brain) as an equal partner.
Peace. (Yang supporting Yin and going to meet each other …)[Hook
D.ff. The I-Ching and You, 1973, Routledge & Kegan Paul]
[02+03] Synthesis – Language
The SYNTHESIS s[2+3]
relates to the limitations of language that must be addressed if we
are to learn a language of symbols that can allow us to interpret
unconscious knowledge. It relates to the harmony of thought
generated by whole-brain thinking - Peace of Mind.
[04] Illumination
For the Core Issue in
s[04] we are given the symbol ILLUMINATION. This stage of the
creative process depends largely on invoking a meditative state of
mind to receive this type of thought.
The Creative Process. All creativity means is the use of the
imagination to produce some new thing … What makes high creativity
so elusive is that, in general, we do not know how to evoke the
state of mind in which we can easily make new, unique, and useful
associations between ideas … creative expression is a process.
Inspirations … in a flash of illumination…
Herman Helmholtz first described the stages … saturation,
incubation, and illumination… Incubation begins when a problem
solver gives up actively trying to solve the problem, handing it
over to the realm of the unconscious … will then give birth to
illumination …
Elmer and Alyce Green, biofeedback researchers … The entrance, or
key, to all these inner processes [is] a particular state of
consciousness in which the gap between conscious and unconscious
processes is voluntarily narrowed, and temporarily eliminated when
useful. When that self-regulated reverie is established, the body
can apparently be programmed at will, and the instructions given
will be carried out, emotional state can be dispassionately
examined, accepted or rejected, or totally supplanted by others
deemed more useful, and
problems insoluble to the normal state of
consciousness can be elegantly resolved.
[LaBerge
S. & Rheingold H. Exploring the world of Lucid Dreaming,
1990, Ballantine]
[05] Noosphere
As a consequence s[05]
we get the symbol NOOSPHERE. Teilhard stated that our biological
evolution is giving rise to special forces that are a psychic
phenomenon of hominisation; that this has created a dimension of
'thinking substance' that he called the Noosphere. This fits
perfectly with the goal of Mx, which is to tap into this collective
Brain.
The Formation of the Noosphere: c) The cerebral apparatus. Between
the human brain, with its milliards of inter-connected nerve cells,
and the apparatus of social thought, with its millions of
individuals thinking collectively, there is an evident kinship … On
the one hand we have a single brain, formed of nervous nuclei, and
on the other a Brain of brains … the 'cerebroid' organ of the
Noosphere … a synthesis … a vault above our heads, a sphere of
mutually reinforced consciousness,
the seat, support and instrument of super-vision and super-ideas
… it is on a higher level than the individual that everything
achieves its fulfilment. [de Chardin
P.T. The Future of Man, 1969, Fontana Books]
[06] Liberation
The responsibility in
s[06] is to free oneself from the causes of suffering, and to work
at understanding life from an awakened perspective using the
unconscious knowledge that rises into awareness.
Liberation: Jamgon Kontrul: " … The cause for liberation is
unconditioned insight, the
true realization of the natural state that is free of ego-clinging,
which has the capacity to eliminate all negative emotional states.
The cause of this true insight is one pointed samadhi … the cause of
samadhi, which is the utterly pure discipline of renunciation. Thus,
right now, in order to free myself from samsara, I will stick to the
discipline, train in samadhi, and generate true insight in the sense
of understanding the meaning of impermanence, suffering, emptiness
and egolessness." …
In other words, we want to be free of samsara, of all samsaric
states, the causes of which are the three poisons of ignorance,
attachment and aggression.
[Edited by Schmidt M.B. Skillful Grace, Tara Practice for our
Times, 2007, Rangjung Yeshe Publications]
[07] Literalists
The probable outcome
s[07] is that humankind will continue down the bloody path that
LITERALISTS have carved out over the centuries unless we start to
push back against intolerant religions and try to reclaim what was
lost. To do this we need a breakthrough in how we communicate with
the unconscious Mind.
The Destruction of Gnosticism:
In response to the continuing popularity of Gnosticism the Roman
Church set out to unify Christianity by force … In 381 Theodosius
finally made heresy a crime against the state. Gnostics writings
were condemned as a 'hotbed of manifold perversity" which 'should
not only be forbidden, but entirely destroyed and burned with fire'.
All philosophical debate was entirely suppressed …
Inherent Intolerance:
Although modern Christianity is made up of countless
diverse sects with opposing approaches … are fundamentally shaped by
the triumph of Literalism in the fourth century …
The wanton destruction of our Pagan heritage is the greatest tragedy
in the history of the Western world. The scale of what was lost is
hard to comprehend. Pagan mysticism and scientific enquiry were
replaced by dogmatic authoritarianism.
The Roman Church imposed its creed
with threats and violence, denying generations of human beings the
right to think their own thoughts and find their personal route to
spiritual salvation … (we ask)
why was Pagan civilization
replaced by the 1,000 years we appropriately call the 'Dark Ages'?
[Freke T. & Gandy P. The Jesus Mysteries, 2000, Thorsons]
[08] Crystal
The conditioning in
s[8] relates to CRYSTAL and brings up an interesting problem that
the collective unconscious which controls human behaviour, remains
unchanged by civilization. The conditioning that I believe we need
to overcome involves changing that which we can, the belief systems
that prevent us from allowing for our pagan nature.
The crystal is a fascinating phenomenon in physical nature. Its
structure, like that of an archetype, is transcendental, a noumenon:
the eternally existing pattern of any class of things, of which the
individual things in that class are imperfect copies, and from which
they derive their existence. (Plato's Primordial Idea) …
In the same way that the structure of a crystal can be imagined and
derived from an actual crystal, the psychology of an archetype can
be derived from psychic utterances llike dreams and visions …
[Edited by Mason & Stanely. Quest, 1975, Analytical
Psychology Club]
[09] Dionysus
The attitude in s[09]
is that of DIONYSUS, which supports the preceding point in offering
a fresh perspective on Nietzsche's work.
What I Owe to the Ancients … the still rich and even overflowing
Hellenic instinct, that wonderful phenomenon which bears the name of
Dionysus: … For it is only in the Dionysian mysteries, in the
psychology of the Dionysian state, that the basic fact of the
Hellenic instinct finds expression—its “will
to life.” …
I
know no higher symbolism than this Greek symbolism of the Dionysian
festivals. Here the most profound instinct of life, that directed
toward the future of life, the eternity of life, is experienced
religiously—and the way to life, procreation, as the holy way. It
was Christianity, with its ressentiment against life at the bottom
of its heart, which first made something unclean of sexuality: it
threw filth on the origin, on the presupposition of our life …
Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems, the
will to life rejoicing over its own inexhaustibility even in the
very sacrifice of its highest types—that is what I called Dionysian.
[Nietzsche F. Twilight of the Idols, 1972, Penguin Books]
[10] Helping
When faced with
overcoming conditioning and the right attitude to adopt, it is
fitting that we get HELPING as the right-action to take
in s[10]:
Helping as an Education Process: Another way of looking at the goal
of helping is client learning. As Strupp (1986) puts it,
helping "typically involves
learning (unlearning, relearning, new learning), which may
take many different forms …
The outcomes may manifest themselves as changes in cognitions,
feeling, or behaviour (or some combination of these)" (p. 124).
Helping is thus an
education process whose goal is learning.
An excellent definition of learning is this: Learning takes place
when options are increased. If the collaboration between helpers and
clients is successful, clients learn in very practical ways. They
have more "degrees of freedom" in their lives as they open up
options and take advantage of them. … Every helping interview can be
seen as an opportunity to help clients develop more options in their
lives.
A
poet once described the lot of people to be "cabined, cribbed, and
confined."
At its best, helping enables clients to learn to open doors, to
throw off chains, to stretch.
[Egan G. The Skilled Helper, 1990, Brooks/Cole Publishers]
[11] Development
For the quantity and
quality aspects in position s[11] we get DEVELOPMENT. Note the
references to archetypes and Dionysus as covered in s[8 & 9], and
the paradox.
Marcuse's criticism of Marx … where Marx's favorite is attacked … :
Prometheus is the culture-hero of toil, productivity, and progress
through repression … the trickster and (suffering) rebel against the
gods, who creates culture at the price of perpetual pain. He
symbolizes productiveness, the unceasing effort to master life. …
Prometheus is the archetypal hero of the performance principle.
Marcuse proceeds to nominate alternate mythological figures, whom he
considers more worthy of idealization: Orpheus, Narcissus, and
Dionysus … [They] stand for a very different reality. … Theirs is
the image of joy and fulfillment, the voice that does not command
but sings, the deed which is peace and ends the labor of conquest …
If Marx is fetishistic about anything, it is not work and production
but rather the far more complex and comprehensive ideal of
development - "the free development
of physical and spiritual energies" (1844 manuscripts);
"development of a totality of capacities in the individuals
themselves" (German Ideology); … "the universality of individual
needs, capacities, pleasures, productive forces, etc." (Grundrisse);
"the fully developed individual"
(Capital). … Marx wants to embrace Prometheus and Orpheus …
The great gift he can give us today, it seems to me, is not a way
out of the contradictions of modern life but a surer and deeper way
into these contradictions. He knew that the way beyond the
contradictions would have to lead through modernity, not out of it.
He knew that we must start where we are:
psychically naked, stripped of all
religious, aesthetic, moral haloes and sentimental veils, thrown
back on our individual will and energy, forced to exploit
each other and ourselves in order to survive; and yet, in spite of
all, thrown together by the same forces that pull us apart, dimly
aware of all we might be together, ready to stretch ourselves to
grasp new human possibilities, to develop identities and mutual
bonds that can help us hold together as the fierce modern air blows
hot and cold through us all. [Berman M.
All that is solid melts into air, 1987, Verso]
[12] Reason
In s[12] we get insight
into the desired objective for the right-action, which is to develop
the human faculty of REASON. There is an important distinction
between reasoning and intelligence that fits brilliantly with the
rest.
But even if man's frame of orientation is utterly illusory, it
satisfies his need for some picture which is meaningful to him … the
picture of the world which he has depends on the development of his
reason and of his knowledge … it
takes a long evolutionary process to arrive at objectivity …
Reason is man's faculty for grasping the world by thought, in
contradiction to intelligence, which is man's ability to manipulate
the world with the help of thought. Reason is man's instrument for
arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's instrument for
manipulating the world successfully; the former is essentially
human, the latter belongs to the animal part of man.
Reason is a faculty which must be
practiced, in order to develop, and it is indivisible … If
one lives in illusions about one sector of life, one's capacity for
reason is restricted or damaged, and thus the use of reason is
inhibited with regard to all other sectors. Reason in this respect
is like love. [Fromm E. The Sane
Society, 1991, Routledge]
[13] Balance
The symbol for the
final outcome s[13] is BALANCE, which relates perfectly to the
download as a whole. I think this reads well for a first attempt
using the pendulum, I'm happy :)
Finding balance is key to the success of any karmic journey.
Grappling with the challenges of life often means that we have to
reconcile conflicting energies. Each of the karmic paths seems to
require finding the middle between two concepts that often appear to
be unrelated or mutually exclusive. Resolving this paradox is part
of the journey … Working with a paradox causes one to move outside
the framework of ordinary perceptions or notions of logic and can
bring the student to new levels of awareness …
It is important to develop the objectivity to gather the fruits of
the lessons as you encounter them. Otherwise life may seem
meaningless or, worse, hopeless.
[Goldschneider G. & Elffers J. The Secret Language of Destiny,
1999, Viking Studio]
