Güney27 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 10, 2022 9:38 pm
Cleric,
Thank you for your time and effort in making these things easier to understand for me.
I read your posts and find them very instructive, especially the trilogy "the center of the central topic".
Kind regards
Thank you Guney for your positive feedback. You're really at an age where learning to think properly can make a great difference in what you'll be able to contribute to the Whole in this lifetime. It is the new wave of souls like you which will really further human evolution.
Everyone knows about the gaps between the generations. Why are there such gaps? It's completely natural that interests differ at different ages but the fact that the older generations can't even
understand the new, only shows how cognition is completely rigid and shaped by the natural and social environment of a particular strip of time. We can see it also here in the forum, we can see it with Jeffrey. The particular context of the life situation
imprints in the individual and forms the rigid channels, ducts, valves, through which consciousness flows (or the shape of the river bed from the previous metaphor). In most people who never awaken to their creative spiritual activity which weaves in thoughts, these rigid forms become the templating patterns for all their thinking, feeling and willing. A silicon chip is a metaphor for this. The layers etched on the dye are an example of how the environment imprints itself in the organism. From then on, electricity (the spirit) flows only through predefined channels. In time you'll quickly learn to recognize people whose thinking flows in such a templated way. We could see it with Jeffrey. Even though he's highly learned, his academic experience has led him to a point where certain way of thinking was etched into his organization and now it's even impossible to point to him that his spirit is still alive and can modify the ducts and channels, the river bed.
Note that this is not at all said to be judgmental about people. It's the opposite - we must learn to understand them. We must always remember that everyone goes through unique life experiences. We shouldn't be criticizing because maybe if we were at their place we would fare even worse!
Let me add once again an illustration to what Ashvin said about higher cognition. It connects naturally with the above. Consider the fact that our state of being is continually metamorphosing (the game state, if you have followed the
VG metaphor). Today we should
move away from trying to make a mental model of reality that should
map to the way perceptions metamorphose. This is what Ashvin speaks of with the 'view from nowhere'. The intellect, half-consciously, tries to swirl eddies in the time stream of consciousness (for example, the thoughts about matter, quantum fields, energies, MAL, etc.) and expects that these eddies can be
overlaid on top of other shapes of the stream which we seemingly don't influence directly (those that we call sensory perceptions and thus feel to us as outer world). This has been the whole scientific and philosophical endeavor in the last 500 years or so.
The paradigm shift in scientific and philosophical thinking today demands that we recognize that our thought eddies are just as part of the stream of reality as everything else. As long as we're blind about the fact that we think and impress these eddies in the stream, we'll always feel as some thinker/observer standing outside of reality and time, and seeking the perfect intellectual model (constellation and dynamics of eddies) which
correlate/match the eddies of sensory perceptions.
Now, assuming that we understand that our thinking is an active force which not only produces thought-eddies but through them also influences the river bed and thus the future flow, the goal of the new science is to have real time understanding of how our spiritual activity (thinking, feeling, willing) modifies the time stream of reality. Obviously this requires new ways of thinking. We need the ability to will our spiritual activity and at the same time be as closely conscious as possible to the way this will affects the stream (which we perceive). That's why we need to learn to observe thinking. This is exactly where our willing nature encounters in the most immediate way the effects that the same that will imprints in the stream. This is very uncomfortable for people indoctrinated in the dual mode of thinking so widespread today. It feels as a dog chasing its own tail. Today's science wants to stabilize its objects of investigation. It wants to have stable readings of the instruments, stable graphs, stable mathematical models and so on. This completely breaks down when we try to employ the same habits to our own thinking because we're observing what we think. We're continually changing the object of observation! That's why the cognitive sciences of today have so little success - the intellect simply doesn't want to confront itself because this requires new skills. Instead it wants to observe stable perceptions EEG scans, MRI scans, etc. because they give the comfortable distance between thinking (in the blind spot) and completely independent perceptions.
I tried to illustrate this through the hysteresis process and its spiraling into unity. Imagine we're looking at a real time EEG or other kind of reading which displays our current brain activity. Let's say we think about
"dog". This will draw some spikes on the EEG. But then we see the EEG and our inner state becomes
"This is how my activity looks like when I was thinking about 'dog'". But then the new EEG prints out, which corresponds to the last quoted thought. When we see that EEG our inner state becomes
"This is how my activity looks when I was thinking about "This is how my activity looks like when I was thinking about 'dog'"". And so on. We don't really need EEG for this because the observation of our own thinking already provides us with the same experience.
This is very uncomfortable for the intellect that is used to feel as invisible subject thinking about objective reality (independent of the subject). This simply doesn't work when we observe our thinking process. Thus we need new skills which we'll hardly receive from mainstream academia.
The solution is simple. And no, it is not the mystical solution "Just let go and observe thoughts as you watch leaves blown by the wind". We must simply learn to
swim with our spiritual activity. We must realize that we're continually navigating a time-stream of consciousness. We're willing the navigation and continually receiving perceptual feedback (first and foremost as thoughts and imagination). Things become difficult only when we insist to objectify the perceptual stream and conceptualize it as something independent of the thinking process which does the conceptualizing.
Now let's look at the metaphor. Imagine that the continual transformation of our inner state is like movement through a labyrinth, a maze (of course it's not a 3D spatial maze, yet it follows some lawful patterns - see the examples with
non-Euclidean geometry). We move from frame to frame in this maze and try to build an intellectual map. In spatial sense we can say something like this: "If I will a step forwards, the visual perceptions in front of my face grow larger, while those behind my head grow smaller". This is one of the lawfulnesses. For those adventurous it might be interesting to see how this is not necessarily the case in
spherical projection. The point is that our state of existence transforms from 'frame to frame' and we're quite used to many of the lawfulnesses but still we try to understand them only through intellectual maps. Logic is a general intuition about the laws through which our thought-states progress from frame to frame. To think logically means to transform from frame to frame such that every thought-state feels as proper advancement through the invisible maze. If we hit walls all the time, this means that we don't grasp the logic, the lawfulness of the state flow. If we grasp this, then we should really understand logic as a kind of
perception of our transition from state to state. It's not something that we abstract from reality and then use it to think logically about the reality out there. It is the very perception of the walls, turns, traps, obstacles of the maze, as we crawl through it.
Imagine that we didn't have a feeling for the continuity of 3D space. Imagine that we're just presented with visual snapshots but we can't grasp their inner logic. Eventually we build completely intellectual ruleset, not different from what was said above. Such human beings, without a feel for 3D spatiality would have some common wisdom about how to operate in the world. For example, elders would pass down knowledge to the young, saying "We have no idea what this reality is all about but we know that if you want perceptions to grow larger you need to move your feet thus and thus. If you want them to grow smaller, you need to move them in the opposite way".
Sounds strange? Well it is actually what modern humanity currently does, not in respect to space but in respect to Time. Our intellect has managed to completely merge with the spatial lawfulness of the sensory spectrum. We have very good intuition about how to operate our will in order to enlarge the perceptions that we need (like food) or make the perceptions we dislike smaller (like some dangerous threat).
Unfortunately, we don't yet know how to do that properly in respect to Time. Ultimately, there's continuous metamorphosis of stream of inner being. Space is only a subset of lawful relations which we grasp intuitively and which seem to bring coherence to sensory perceptions. But what about all the other perceptions? For example, let's look at the current tragic events. Most people would certainly declare that they would like to experience such a stream of being, so that the sensory, emotional, ideal perceptions of war should grow smaller and smaller. But the facts show that we, collectively, don't yet understand the geometry of Time. It seems we want to avoid war, we take some steps but similarly to the linked video above, the spectrum of war grows larger and larger instead of smaller.
The reason is because we have completely mechanical understanding of the stream of becoming. The maze that we move through is not spatial in the 3D sense. It is like phase space. We don't really move anywhere (we are always where our "I" is) but the 'pixels' of our state continuously transform around and in us. The question is how to grasp the lawfulness through which they transform and even more importantly - how our spiritual activity contributes to that transformation. As said, currently we have quite mechanical and heuristic understanding of time. We don't perceive time's lawful flow but based on previous experience we say "If you want to fare well in life, get your degree, get a job so that you can get your pension at old age." I'm not saying that we shouldn't do that but it's nevertheless an example of thinking that mechanically
extrapolates past experience into the future. Today more than ever we see how fragile the human economic and political world is and how it can easily turn out that the perceptions of our pension instead of growing larger as we age, may actually diminish.
So what do we do? We need to begin investigating the lawful structure of the phase-maze as it extends in time. We should start small. We should start from our most immediate time flow - our own cognitive flow. The more we perceive how our emotions, desires, beliefs, convictions, etc. (which represent the river bed) determine our current flow, the more we'll be able to transform them. The more we understand how our own spiritual flow is shaped in time, the more we understand it also for the whole World. Because our flow is an aperture of the first-person perspective of the World flow.
Once again we see how different our whole scientific mood should become. Most importantly, we should overcome the automatic thinking which presents the outer world as a temporary sandbox, from which it is enough to step back. The idea that the flow of the world today is different from our own flow is the most paralyzing idea for modern man. It makes us completely satisfied with the general feeling of blissful one consciousness and we imagine that as long as we're relatively good, we don't do too much harm, and pass our life with the least resistance, we're all good for the 'real' life after death. The primary realization that modern man should make is that the life after death
is the time-lawfulness of life here and now. It's the same World flow but at a different 'zoom level', until we rhythmically enter again the finer details of the flow in our next life. Only through such realization we can awaken to the responsibility each one of us bears. It is up to us to grow into the time-lawfulness of reality such that we can guide our common life in a wise and loving way. This can only happen if we begin to recognize the river bed of our soul life, how it shapes our default thoughts, judgments, emotional responses, and how with our spiritual activity we can reshape that soul life such that it is musically attuned and as a result consciousness extends in time.
In short, logic is the immediate perception of our thinking-flow through the time-maze - whether we hit walls or move freely. Higher cognition is the gradual expansion of that perception such that it grasps intuitively the geometry of the flow in time. The intellect is like blindfolded higher cognition, which can perceive the logic only of what it immediately touches. When thinking grows towards the past and future in the living spiritual organism of time (as if our cognitive feelers spread as water can fill a labyrinth), it's called in the most general sense 'higher cognition' (because our spirit lives in the higher order topology of time).
