Re: Why Man Creates Art: Kanye West as an Archetypal Artist
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:03 pm
AshvinP wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:42 pmGrantHenderson wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 2:04 am
I agree. The life of higher thinking is necessary to give persistent direction to our spiritual beliefs so we can access the true knowledge sheathed underneath, which is often lacking in most people. But I do suspect that this can be developed in the “average individual” with practice. As in, they do not necessarily need an innately strong higher thinking capacity. They just need to practice integrating these faculties with their spiritual sense.Well, it may depend on what we are calling "wisdom". Certainly you are correct that a more intuitive feeling and moral (willing) life can come to expression when the intellect is not prioritized, and this is reflected by the 'everyday folk'. On the other hand, it may not be clear to many such people how exactly to direct their will and feeling and when it is possibly leading them astray, into comfortable spiritual beliefs but not genuine knowledge. In no cases can a person become more spiritually free, pursuing the Good, Beautiful, and True out of only their inmost individuality - without also working on their life of higher thinking. And then the question becomes, how long can an unfree individual, even with the best intentions and wholesome yet naive spirituality, resist the subconscious tendencies which work to subvert higher spiritual knowledge? I would say most indications in modern society and the way it is trending answer, 'not very long'.
I think there is a really beautiful living dynamic between the sun and the planets. I wonder if you have come across similar ideas.Christ says that, if the grain of wheat fallen to the ground does not die, it will remain alone in this world. What really is loneliness? Loneliness is the greatest suffering that one can experience on earth. To be multiplied is the purpose of life. All suffering in the world comes from the fact that people want to live for themselves alone.
Evil is always born out of our wish to remain alone and become the centre of the world. For we should be like the sun: when the sun rises in the morning, it rises for everybody because it loves all; it is considerate to all beings from the lowest to the highest; that is why all turn their eyes to it. But does the sun say that we must enter it? It tells us to make use of the benefits it gives us; and just as it illuminates the world, so should we shed light and
enlighten those around us.
The sun is in a continual state of “dying”. It gives itself completely to the planets that surround it. The heat and light which the sun gives out is the life force upon which the planets can contain, and also peer beyond themselves and into the realm of ideas. However, the planet can only do this once it has developed competent mental and sense perceptual faculties. How well the planets can use the sun's energy to develop these faculties depends on their proximity to the sun (and mass, but I won’t touch on that). Too far away and they don’t receive enough light and heat for liquid water to originate on its surface. Too close and they receive too much light and heat, and liquid water will not persist. Us humans can relate entirely to this problem. Our body and mind generates heat along with the generation of ideas, and cools down when we engage in rote or externally demanding thought tasks without much introspection. We will often find that if we generate ideas “too prematurely” the idea breaks apart in our awareness. In a very real sense, our physical and mental being can only withstand a limited soul connection before it overheats, and breaks apart. On the other hand, ideas that are formed without much involvement of our soul do not give off much heat or have much potential for inner-growth. However, an idea thrives when it comes in contact with us at our ego — not too “far” or too “close” to our soul. At the “boundary” separating our inner and outer perspectives. Our ego must be involved with the process of idea creation in order for it to gain stability in our awareness. Just as the ego makes sure the different faculties of our soul are functioning competently and in unison, so does it moderate heat levels throughout the body, to make sure that our physical organs operate properly and in unison.
Likewise, Just as an idea thrives where we come in contact with it not too far or too close from our soul. Planets thrive when they are not too far or too close from the sun — at the “Goldilocks zone”. These planets receive the proper amount of light and heat for them to develop their mental and sense-perceptual faculties. Plants and trees on earth are especially prominent examples. Plants and trees are the earth's primary sense organs. They take in light from the sun, create nutrients and spread them below the earth's surface for the earth's inner-enrichment.
There are two implications of this process. Firstly, the sun can now peer through the earth's sense organs and into the earth itself, so it can “live through” the earth. Secondly, the earth generates enough resources from the sun's energy such that it has more agency to live self contained, without as much direct support from the sun (ie, winter or night time).
Just as we have an ego at the “centre” of our being, and the sun generates an ego for itself in the earth (along the habitable zone of the solar system), so does our planet have an ego at its core (centre), where the earth sends and returns nutrients from near the earth's surface via convection processes. Just as our ego moderates our physical and mental temperature, the molten iron in the earth's core generates a magnetic field to moderate the amount of heat that it allows to enter into its atmosphere from the sun.