Philosophical Speculations

Kaje977 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 10, 2026 8:33 pm Hello, Cleric. Thank you for your reply. I see. I think I understand now what you mean, but there is still one thing left that leaves me confused although I do see that prayer and having faith is what I should be striving for in order to find the right alignment towards the Divine curvature.
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So, doesn't this mean that it is possible to anticipate and discover something that we can absolutely be sure and certain of?

It all becomes simpler when we realize that our human thoughts are like artistic dance moves that express certain intuition. This allows us to see things in two aspects.

What does it mean to be absolutely sure of something? Experientially, we produce an art form, a mental sculpture, and say, "This is the truth. What I have produced is an undeniable truth." Yet, put like this, we see the thought gesture can never be 'the truth'. This is very deeply embedded in the human psyche. Because of certain secret pride, human beings expect that the World operates or is created through forces that are essentially compatible with our intellectual gestures. This is why we seek the truth in a thought. For example, we imagine that God has created the World from within a consciousness similar to our human. There could be a thought in the Divine Mind that is responsible for, say, gravity. Then, when we find that though (since it is intellect-compatible), we may say "this is absolute truth". In that case we would be justified because this thought is the actual blueprint of creation. But higher consciousness reveals that our intellectual thoughts are not the forces through which the Cosmos is created and supported. They are specific intuitive movements within the constraints of our bodily organization, producing mental images. So, what I meant in the previous post is that these mental art forms can be produced in their opposites. Even something that seems like an absolute truth, for example, "There's existence", can still be negated as far as the art form is concerned. So every art form is deniable, that is, we can produce its opposite.

But where does our sense of truthfulness come from then? It does feel that "There's existence" is an absolute truth. Here, however, we should distinguish things. What is real is the actual intuitive experience of existence. Producing a thought that reflects this intuitive experience is already an art form. We scratch a sign in the tree bark and say, "This symbolizes that I experience existence."The symbol only has value as long as I continuously replenish it in my consciousness from within the living experience. Without this continuous replenishment, thoughts are like inert puzzle pieces. We can assemble them in ways that feel to make sense or not, but through such manipulations only, we can never arrive at the feeling that a certain mental art form is 'the truth'.

So, to your original question, it is clear that simply assembling thought forms can never give us the answer "Yes, this is my destiny, and this is an undeniable truth." What about the other approach? Can I access such a truth in a deeper intuitive experience and express that as a thought? Here, however, we should once again be very careful. Such a question once again secretly presupposes that there's somewhere in ideal space some universal pattern whose intuitive experience can be expressed as "X's destiny is this and that." This, however, is simply not the case. There's no such abstract rule placed in the invisible, to which our destiny is forced to conform. Everything is a dynamic process, much like in Ashvin's response above. Our destiny is like a seed falling into the soil. The qualities of the environment and the seed are the true constraints within which our destiny meanders. There's nowhere written as some abstract rule that "It is the oak seed's destiny to become an oak". It is its destiny insofar as this is what results when the archetypal and elemental forces work together.

So our task is not to guess "what is written" for our destiny but to continuously grow our orientation for the way we are placed within these archetypal, soul, and elemental forces. And we can only start growing from within our present state.