10-25-2011, 12:00 AM
Ravenmoon wrote:
Like these last two posts here.
Seeing/knowing things for oneself, direct experience, is a must if one is to be free.
As one advances as a warrior, one resists assigning meaning at all - because it becomes clearer over time that it's the conclusions we draw that are often in error, while the experience itself remains just "what it is", whether it can be explained or understood or not. For example, I'm always amused by websites offering to sell certain crystals with this or that "special properties." Quartz for clarity! Amethyst for healing! Aventurine for fertility!
They're just rocks. An amethyst is just as likely to make you fertile and aventurine is just as likely to gift you with clarity... Not. All of these "meanings" are just random assignations by humans, but the thing-itself is just the thing-itself.
With that said... A warrior MIGHT decide to assign meaning to a stone as a tool of "fake it till you make it" (i.e., a power object), but ultimately a wo/man of Knowledge *sees* the underlying truth: it's still just a rock. The fact that it is a pretty rock or a different kind of rock doesn't alter the fact that it's still a rock. And, of course... "pretty" and "different" are also just random assignations.
The only thing that makes gold so valuable is our belief. The only thing that has kept the economy functioning for so long is our belief that there is gold behind all that paper. As the mass beliefs start to disintegrate (i.e., as the conclusions we have drawn cease to have 'meaning'), the thing itself reverts to just what-it-is...
No-thing.
In the human world, it seems there is virtually no way to have a society that doesn't depend on conclusions and illusions, agreements and consensuses. If our economy weren't based on gold and paper, it would be based on beans and sand, or turnips and feathers. Point being: it seems our survival as organic beings depends on certain assignations of "meaning", but at the same time our inorganic freedom depends on seeing beyond those things upon which our organic survival depends.
It's no coincidence that this is somewhat of a flawless trap - a basic construct of the foreign installation.
I think there is deep inner meaning there.
Like these last two posts here.
Seeing/knowing things for oneself, direct experience, is a must if one is to be free.
As one advances as a warrior, one resists assigning meaning at all - because it becomes clearer over time that it's the conclusions we draw that are often in error, while the experience itself remains just "what it is", whether it can be explained or understood or not. For example, I'm always amused by websites offering to sell certain crystals with this or that "special properties." Quartz for clarity! Amethyst for healing! Aventurine for fertility!
They're just rocks. An amethyst is just as likely to make you fertile and aventurine is just as likely to gift you with clarity... Not. All of these "meanings" are just random assignations by humans, but the thing-itself is just the thing-itself.
With that said... A warrior MIGHT decide to assign meaning to a stone as a tool of "fake it till you make it" (i.e., a power object), but ultimately a wo/man of Knowledge *sees* the underlying truth: it's still just a rock. The fact that it is a pretty rock or a different kind of rock doesn't alter the fact that it's still a rock. And, of course... "pretty" and "different" are also just random assignations.
The only thing that makes gold so valuable is our belief. The only thing that has kept the economy functioning for so long is our belief that there is gold behind all that paper. As the mass beliefs start to disintegrate (i.e., as the conclusions we have drawn cease to have 'meaning'), the thing itself reverts to just what-it-is...
No-thing.
In the human world, it seems there is virtually no way to have a society that doesn't depend on conclusions and illusions, agreements and consensuses. If our economy weren't based on gold and paper, it would be based on beans and sand, or turnips and feathers. Point being: it seems our survival as organic beings depends on certain assignations of "meaning", but at the same time our inorganic freedom depends on seeing beyond those things upon which our organic survival depends.
It's no coincidence that this is somewhat of a flawless trap - a basic construct of the foreign installation.
I think there is deep inner meaning there.