Where are we doing it wrong?

[rosygyro]

Uncle Sam wrote:The conceptual mind has a role but is only a very small part of the whole being. By itself, that small part can never understand. The tragedy is that the little part has been conditioned to believe it can understand. The path Reb Johnson points us toward is a better direction toward understanding what Gurdjieff left for us than the dark, craggy, lifeless path recommended by those who put their faith only in the conceptual mind. The top heavy intellectual who in all things trusts only in that tiny part of himself, denying and rejecting the intelligence of the body and the intelligence of feeling, with stubborn, mechanized partiality to the "critical techniques of analysis and synthesis" as was drummed into the heads of recent generations in our ordinary education, is the one more likely destined for the lunatic asylum as "psychopath squared." The spiritual search is a movement. The movement can lead in a direction of wholeness, in which mind, body and feeling become better related and in balance, facilitating a finer understanding not otherwise accessible to us. Castaneda's journey is an interesting study from the standpoint of the movement toward and away from wholeness. To reject offhand everything Castaneda gave on the featherweight grounds some critics have suggested would be silly. As for Castaneda's writings, it is far better to read those works for oneself. As Reb Johnson rightly suggests - don't judge a man (or his work) by the tales of others.Yeah it like if you unravelled and mapped the entire human DNA helix.. the part for the mind would be tiny..