Güney27 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:11 pm
I realized today that I wanted to understand what intuition, meaning, thinking ...... In form of intellectual, thought-perceptions.
I tried to construct a framework to get a grip on these themes.
Trying to understand thinking, by using thinking (arranging thought perceptions) treats thinking like some objects in nature wich we study.
It's pointless.
I now can see what Ashvin meant in the discussions.
The right way is to try to relate this themes to one's own experience.
I don't know what the deeper nature of this tendency is, but I think it is a reason for the inaccessibility of these things on this forum.
It has nothing to do with the thread but I wanted to share this insights.
Guney,
Thanks for sharing your insight. Yes, that seems to be a consistent source of misunderstanding on the forum. In a sense, it stems from our refusal to confront the fact that we are really in a tragic situation of addiction to one-sided 'left-brain' thinking, the constant rearranging of thought-perceptions into models that are supposed to match the dynamics of reality (physical and spiritual). We first need to honestly confront how diseased our thinking is in that respect. Then we need to take some courageous and radical interventions to heal the addiction. To put it in a crude metaphor, most of the tactics we use are like giving a lifelong smoker a box of nicotine patches. Or trying to rehabilitate someone who hasn't used his legs for 10 years by giving him light leg massages. These things may be helpful supplements but they won't address the root causes of the sickness.
What we need is radical mental exercises (although not at all 'complex' ones), including soul purification exercises (like the 6 subsidiary exercises), that strain and challenge all of our habitual ways of thinking and feeling. Through such exercises we are aiming to intimately experience the connection between our willed activity and the resulting thought-perceptions - this is the only place in our experience where our perceptions are immediately explained by, or transparent to, ideational activity. In all other cases, like the rocks, plants, animals, and other humans in our environment, we can infer that there is ideational activity animating their existence and movements, but we don't experience that activity inwardly. It is through intimate exercises that the holistic 'right brain' functions can become more conscious - normally we only awaken to the
finished products of our thinking activity that are expressed as fragmented perceptions (concepts and sense impressions) to analyze by the left brain, but through the portal of concentration exercises, we can awaken 'deeper' in the flow of our thinking activity that structures our perceptual life.
With the liberation of our spiritual activity from the rigid contours of the brain and senses, conditioned by our lower desires and feelings, we can begin to perceive clearly how spiritual themes manifest in the rhythms of our living experiential stream. We gradually awaken to the gravity wells of desire and feeling that attract our thinking-perceptual stream. I mentioned our nested rhythms of expansion/contraction before. We could represent the overarching dynamic as follows. At the outer conceptual-perceptual level, the 'seed point' of Cosmic potential has expanded into the complex physical sphere of perceptual dynamics.
We have awakened into this sphere of complex relations between the natural kingdoms, cultural institutions, and planetary/stellar dynamics. These all delaminated from the unified Cosmic potential. We designate all of that as the planetary incarnations (Saturn, Sun, Moon, Earth), the evolution of the Archai and Humans (at a mineral stage), the Archangels and Animals, the Angels and Plants, the Earthly Humans and Minerals. The evolution of Warmth, of Light and Air, of Tone and Water, of Life and Earth. Physical body, Etheric Body, Astral Body, Ego. Intuition, Inspiration, Imagination, Intellect. We could go on and on with these correspondences between spiritual scientific concepts. The main point is that all of this delaminated from the Cosmic potential, emerging as hollowed-out holistic Intuition, providing support for beings in developing new modes of consciousness and corresponding virtues. It all resulted in our current stage where we reached the true grounds of inner freedom via spiritual activity. The price of this freedom has been our complete experiential isolation from the Cosmic spheres from which we descended.
At the same time, however, the sphere of
inner forces has contracted into the 'seed point' of our seemingly atomic head-space, where we experience thought-perceptions lacking all sense of reality (compared to the outer world of sense impressions). We should imagine the outer spectrum expanding as the inner spectrum simultaneously contracts. The outer delamination is a reflection of the inner
lamination. The Kingdom of God is truly within us, despite how much this challenges our normal spatial intuition. We only need to remember the physical body is itself a spatial representation of the
totality of Cosmic forces and our spiritual activity is therefore not confined to the 'space' of the representation (although we can relate all the Cosmic forces to aspects of our physical organism). The task now is to gradually delaminate the inner forces from within so that our outer conceptual-perceptual experience is simultaneously spiritualized, which practically means we once again experience the rhythms of our collective and individual existence in harmony with the High Intents of the Cosmic organism.
