Cleric K wrote: ↑Tue Feb 28, 2023 9:41 am ...
The future is not simply a point along the time axis that lies so far away that it's pointless to even think about it. This kind of thinking is influenced by our materialistic world conception which sees reality as a chaotic stage, where small changes today can have great and quite unpredictable consequences in the future (the famous butterfly effect). Thus we imagine the future similarly to weather patterns which are highly chaotic. We can barely forecast the weather for few weeks from now, what's left for millennia from now. Thus from our intellectual-bound perspective we say that it's too early to discuss the future because it's completely unpredictable. This however doesn't take into account what can only higher consciousness perceive - that the Time potential has structure and certain events in the far far future are even more certain than the weather tomorrow. We can only understand this if we conceive of the superimposed rhythmic waves of the spiritual potential, where the higher order archetypal rhythms shape the evolutionary envelope (the telos) for the lower.
Yet the way this envelope will be filled with manifested potential still has lots of degrees of freedom. Everything that we do today already affects the future.
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Thank you Cleric! This is such a helpful reminder. There's the attractive power of the structured future, and there is also the attractive power of the past and the mind habits, which - not always, but often - still make me think of the future in the materialistic terms you have described. It's not an elaborated train of thoughts, but an imperceptible overall conception that remains there, imprinted in the riverbed.
This reminds me that understanding and intuiting things is important, but equally important is to use effort to recall the new realizations, and actively seal them in the riverbed, so that they can appropriately shape the future flow. That's where most of the work is left to be done. Getting an idea once is no guarantee that it's profoundly understood and integrated. The idea (we) could very well linger at the periphery of our (its) reality for a while, and then evaporate, under the influence of the powerful flow of events streaming through a largely unchanged riverbed. You have used the very telling freight train metaphor as well.
So I am reminded that the rhythmical unfolding applies to everything, including learning. There is a materialistic conception of the future, and there is also a materialistic-inspired idea that grasping a concept happens in one well identified instant, before which we are ignorant, and after which we have acquired knowledge. But that's not how it works. It's necessary to ingrain the evolving understanding through willful layering activity. How these threads unfold is another continuous living demonstration of the same. So snapping back is normal, it only prefigures the conditions for the next bit of progression, provided that we continue to do the work. Thank you for the astronomical levels of patience!