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Freedom is Understanding
Seeing the true reality makes your choices true choices. Rather than saying something arbitrary, honestly rather thoughtlessly like “I could never kill anyone“, why not say the truth? Under the right circumstances I would kill someone, and understand why. Rather than say I would never steal, why not say that if I needed to steal…
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Understanding Avocation
If your calling is the philosopher, you function on meaning and principles, and if a situation seems to have no principle you feel lost. Me, I function on rhythm or cycles, flow. I function on chaos. When the fire stops burning then I wonder what’s up. Creating chaos? Ah no, I don’t need to create…
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Organized Understanding
Anyone familiar with Carl Jung‘s work? It can be wrapped up simply. He wasn’t swept up by the “age of reason” BS. Carl Jung was a student of Freud’s, but his work took a different track when he looked at a surprising similarity between all world practices and symbolism, and he focused on what these…
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Understanding Conflict
Conflict is not an easy thing to understand. If one can recognize that it is a matter of opinion, and that it isn’t necessary to agree. Most of the ways you get “wronged” are in fact not about you or your well being at all. I love a good debate. I have learned it is ok…
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Understanding A Dynamic
The topic is productivity. We tend to be very concerned with productivity, don’t we? Even if you aren’t employed? It’s a convoluted idea, this productivity. Have any of you spent a day doing literally nothing ever? Everything gets done always, but no one needs to do it. That’s the issue with productivity. As we live…
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Intuitive Understanding
Where does the intuitive knowledge come from? I can maybe use the recent findings about my disability. My prefrontal cortex is impaired, not totally broken, but not fully functional. Sort of absorbed by other parts of the brain. In the case of neurotypical people, when you dream your sensory center, your emotional center, and your memory…
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Transcendent of Human Understanding
What are miracles? My first thought on that was about other people calling it a miracle, that thing that is not supposed to happen, out of the ordinary, and divinely stimulated or brought into being. My real feeling about this is everything is a miracle, and not all, or if any of it, is explainable.…
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Understanding in Being
We have in our being an understanding of our whole nature, and a reference point for understanding the entirety of nature itself. We research things because we want to. We build things because we want the tool or means to our end that our “industry” produces, and we are working with what is effectively a…
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Growth in Understanding
Gnani yoga doesn’t of necessity preclude reverence for a deity though many traditions do not incorporate such reverence in their core teachings. This is one of the elements that all schools of yoga have in common. The gods they traditionally venerate are not seen as especially invested in anyone’s specific affairs. The wheel of karma…
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All Understanding
Are these angels like energy patterns of a matrix? Yes. The angel of fire wasn’t a bureaucrat responsible for starting fires. This angel is fire. The elements responding to the will of god would literally be angels obeying the commands of god. Are the symbols in the enochian tablets representative of these energy patterns? They…
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Religion as Inspiration for Understanding
I will ask you friends, do you feel the larger scientific community acts with philosophical integrity? There are some scientific thinkers that do advance the notion that scientific discovery will offer change as regards society and human social ills. It tends to get around to the same idea though. You are an accident of nature,…
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Tribal Understanding: Listening to the Earth
Example, a big element of tribal understanding (though one of those vaguely mystical things orthodox scientists are so keen to dismiss) is the idea of listening to the earth in whatever form they symbolize it. They have been slowly accepting that animals can and do sense the earth electromagnetic field, birds and fish mostly, but…
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Tribal Understanding: Capacity for Language
Another example, the old legends of humans talking with animals was seen as absolutely nonsense. More and more, brain size seems less likely to play a role in brain power. Even things like sea slugs seem able to perform cognitive functions that would seem impossible, even microscopic worms, and some of these organisms don’t even…
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Understanding Brings Understanding
So my own take on the whole apathy matter, my philosophy of how to deal with it, and it has proven reliable… I hate dead ends. Dead end trains of thought, dead end understandings. “It is because it is” answers. They vex me seriously, but my moto is (and yes it’s a circular thought) understanding…