CHRONIC stupidity can
arise from a number of causes, however there is one malaise in particular that
is antecedent to the currency of practical learning and retained
knowledge, that is explicit also to cognitive dysfunction.
Our thought processes live outside of our physical brain and being. There is electrical activity that occurs within the hemisphere of the brain when 'fishing' for solutions and ideas, whilst also there are 'living' records of the concepts and memories once they are attained.
Actual thinking itself
is far more complex in both structure and possibility than computation and
association alone. The suggestion that
machine minds can exceed human intelligence is glib and restrictive, whilst also
self-prophetic as it is the machine pre-organized thinking that is diseasing
our thinking in general today.
Young minds are
forceful and energetic. Life gives the young an opportunity to change and shape
their time, their era, with their velocity of thought. If you consider this for
a moment you can appreciate how quickly history can fall away and let new ideas
fashion the present. If this dynamic were not the case then change and
improvement would barely be possible.
It is the gift given
to every generation - the energetic supremacy within the world of thought. What this means is
that the collective thought world of any age is shaped and impressed by the
young of its time. From this new ideas are communicated easily and old ideas
quickly dissipate.
This is not to say that
it is only from young minds that the world can be changed esoterically, for
there are unique individuals who can carry the exuberance of their youth into
their later years, however in the main the opportunities are delegated to those
who will use them.
Returning to thinking
and the processes involved: we find that the differences between human thinking
and AI (artificial intelligence) can be simply put - one is warm and the
other is cold.
You cannot install 'caring' or nurture into a program, that is in any way real. It may mimic something but it will be in actuality an illusion.
One could argue that
we are trying to entertain emotion within the thinking and that it is
irrelevant and off topic to do so. We answer this thus:
Warmth pervades every
interior within the hierarchies of the Heavens. Warmth can be characterized by
its temperate dance - for it is neither deathly cold with stagnation nor
blazingly hot with consuming, wearing, properties.
So often people can be
described as being coldly uncaring or indifferent, or so very fiercely
emotional that they begin to wither the other folk around them. Whereas the
'warm' people are those felt to bring comfort with their presence, who do not
impinge in a negative way but rather bring life and hope and caring to those
around them.
The nobleness of
warmth far exceeds the small behaviors of dear people, for its body is that of
the essential and cosmic virtue, out from which our very spiritual lives are
formed.
Such nurture is Godliness and no less. Gentle nurture and its warmth holds and protects and keeps in check the motions of the planets, the ecology of the realm - ever weighing and balancing need upon need, place upon place, with both reverence and kindness evidential in being. Think not that life itself could continue, were it not for the kindness that the Infinite permits.
Such nurture is Godliness and no less. Gentle nurture and its warmth holds and protects and keeps in check the motions of the planets, the ecology of the realm - ever weighing and balancing need upon need, place upon place, with both reverence and kindness evidential in being. Think not that life itself could continue, were it not for the kindness that the Infinite permits.
Without the generosity
which nurturing warmth does bring, all things would be in isolation and not
even each to his own - merely one in the singular with nothing - no mothers or
fathers or suns.
The principle of
warmth manifests wherever there is need calling it into being. This is a natural response and so
characterizes its goodness and properties. Warmth is the conveyor, but not the
heat itself. It is the heavenly
deliverer conducting what otherwise would be too much energetic force, or too
little without its presence.
And likewise, even in human behavior, the warmth can temper the heat and revive the cold - it is essential to health, both mental and physical. A cold mind or an over-active mind loses its discernment for logic and the pathways to it.
And likewise, even in human behavior, the warmth can temper the heat and revive the cold - it is essential to health, both mental and physical. A cold mind or an over-active mind loses its discernment for logic and the pathways to it.
Both the cold mind and
the over-active heated thinking tend towards self-centered behavior.
Self-centeredness does not provide a conduit into thinking.
Remembering that new
thinking occurs outside of the body and into the ethers, self-centered
individuals are 'brain bound' and by their own determining and cannot reach
further than themselves.
The thought world and
the thinking processes are all around us.
In point of fact, the physical world is thought manifest.
Thought itself may have many shapes, forms and density variants, but it is essentially, the 'stuff of stuff' around us continually rearranging itself.
Thought itself may have many shapes, forms and density variants, but it is essentially, the 'stuff of stuff' around us continually rearranging itself.
To the seer the
thoughts an individual entertains can comically be forming in the ethers around
him - like an animated play. The memories and imaginings can appear etherically
with form and shape and sometimes even person - in entourage to the individual
who visits these thoughts, and for a time, makes them so tangible.
The act of wondering
is literally the experience of stepping out from oneself. To ponder, to question, to wonder, opens the
door of self into the immediate and provoking otherness, and one only has to
imagine this feeling without even a direction, to sense the ideas that lie
outside of their own reckoning.
The talent of a man
lies in his discerning and choosing; it was never in one's own genius alone.
For it is impossible to know something you have not known before without it
coming from outside the realm of your own immediate thinking. And unless you
were born an adept with the recall of many lifetimes past, you simply do not
have the original knowledge or pathways to it within your own mind.
One's own soul holds
recollection and can 'think', yet the soul does not live in the brain and nor
will it be found there.
The egoic complex has fine thinking, but it does not reside in the brain nor can it be found there either.
The egoic complex has fine thinking, but it does not reside in the brain nor can it be found there either.
Our egoic thinking
really is developing into that which chooses all things within the deepest sincerity.
In some it functions well, in some it is yet too feint: for many physical and
mental aggravants inhibit its purpose and drive the mediocre impressions
primarily. Egoic thinking is prime, yet handicapped by intoxicants, corrupt,
selfish or lewd thinking, trauma and of course physical decline.
This subject borders
the considerations of free will and choosing. If it is to be the function of
the ego to choose, then generally speaking we are empowered also to ignore it
and the values of choosing 'wisely'. If habits or ill health presides, then
original choosing will be mean and determined by our glibness... often needing
a fresh start, a new life with young eyes, to be able to try again with our
strengths so intended.
Secondary to this is
the overall thought world and the impressions it has to offer. In eras past there were all kinds of
struggles and philosophical imaginings that were about physical and spiritual
survival, and the Divine. This generally (in the West) is preoccupied with
fantasy and entertainment - with an immense amount of mental energy being spent
on going down electronic paths of predetermined games. Hours, days, months and
years can be spent 'exploring' the visual stories given out through these games
- and also their best years, when it comes to the formation of new thought
which is to be plastic to the aspirations and velocities of the generation at
hand.
The concept of
entertainment is very much one of being temporarily disconnected from the
concerns of ordinary life - to feel a 'relief' as it were, from the pursuing
worries. Not only does media disseminated knowledge exacerbate great fear and
concern in relation to the worries of countries, currencies and the ecology
today, but also the immediate thought world is saturate with this concentration
of fear.
Then there is the internet - where for the moment one can find resourceful knowledge, and communication can be useful, generous, supportive and even warm.
Then there is the internet - where for the moment one can find resourceful knowledge, and communication can be useful, generous, supportive and even warm.
Fundamentalist reforms
will become larger and stronger than ever before. Even though one might imagine
that they are based on older traditions and respect for such etc., you will
find that it is the young that drive and enforce these factions, populating and
promulgating their 'truths' now repackaged.
Idiocy is on the
increase for two reasons - firstly self-centeredness, secondly, the ethers
close by are over-full right now with relatively useless, go-nowhere thoughts
inspired and inspiring this age of entertainment. For the more folk consider
escapism as a proper part of living life, the worse this relay will
become.
Nourishing thoughts
are to be found still, and for those with a compassionate heart the way of
warmth will bring them lively interactions with both this world and the next.
Perhaps in this era, it shall no longer be spoken that one walks the path of the light or the dark, but of the divine deliverer - that of Warmth.
ReplyDelete"By its very nature, however, being a living path to the super-sensible realities, Anthroposophy is a means whereby the religious feelings, the whole-hearted devotion of men to the super-sensible worlds may be enhanced, quickened, pervaded with warmth."
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 79 – On the Reality of Higher Worlds – Christiania (Oslo), November 25, 1921