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Veteran Posts: 214  | [Previously posted at the Google group. Note: read carefully, don't skim] "You are dreaming. You are with some beings, somewhere. You are given a smooth stone slab, say, 10 by 12 inches, made of a pearly, shimmering material in which an infinity of patterns fluctuates. A piece of paper is folded and cut, then unfolded, and you have a symetrical pattern of cut holes. Laying this paper over the stone slab, you see visual events in the slab confirming the pattern cut in the paper. You cut a different pattern; the visuals in the slab seem to corroborate the new pattern of the viewholes. It occurs to you that the paper pattern acts as a screen, selecting from the infinite field only patterns which correspond to the viewhole arrangement, bits of other patterns which may exist in the stone are seen, if at all, as noise, since their complete symmetricity is screened out. You understand: this is the Philosopher's Stone. It occurs to you that all our philosophies are like the cutout patterns you lay on the stone; That corroboration by symmetricity has been sufficient to establish the particular cutout screen as 'truthful'. It is clear though that one 'truthful' symmetry excludes others, by treating their components as noise. You realize that this applies not only to philosophical systems, but to your daily life- that we screen and select patterns which we live in, and live by, and the rest is noise. This is fundamental to our continuity of consciousness. It occurs to you that the more cutouts there are in the screen pattern (greater complexity), the more 'truthful' symmetries will be found. The upper limit being the infinite field which we first started out with, and to which we needed to apply patterns to perceive. The most inclusive way of seeing the stone's infinite field is then with no screen at all." ==================================================== From: http://www.mkzdk.org/philosopherstone.html You may think "what the heck is Agric wittering about now" or it may make perfect sense to you with no further explanation. Perhaps that is your choice. Perhaps someones else made that choice for you. What you perceive and how you perceive it is a function of you and those that have influenced you. Truth may exist (logically it should) but can you ever be sure you could know it? I might contest that this is important to you and everyone now, but it becomes much more important a couple of years hence. Meanwhile the cacophony of distraction and un-news does its very successful best to hide accurate and meaningful perception (insofar as that might exist) from you, and you probably conspire to assist that. Taking these blinkers off is a long and not easy process. That is why I begin now to have a sporting chance. I don't ask you to believe or trust me; I ask the opposite: trust no one, nothing, including me and yourself, on what is reality and 'truth'. Be skeptic. That is not easy, I know. It means you have to think and question everything, often incurring much greater mental processing cost. That will hurt if you are used to a simplified, routine, reality. Why bother? Routine simplification works while things continue much as before, that is why we have evolved to think and behave this way - it is efficient, tomorrow is usually much like today. It fails when things undergo significant / rapid / chaotic change. That is where we go in a soon tomorrow, then you must be able to see, perceive and think for real. | ||
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| John Wood |
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Regular Posts: 79  Location: Cromarty | It makes sense to me Agric. I like the image of the paper and the stone. Of course the problem is that the universe, reality, whatever you like to call it, can only be understood by us within the limited means of our human minds. We seem to have a need to understand things, but our way of doing that, by dividing the world into words, concepts, and so on, obscures the fact that all our understanding is conditioned by the very words and concepts we have ourselves constructed. It is very hard for us to escape this way of thinking, as we build up great structures of conception by chopping up reality. In the end we have to accept that we don't understand the universe and never really can. All we do is to hold a mirror to our own mental processes. | ||
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