| ilya_shambat2004@yahoo.com 2006-04-10, 11:29 am |
| There are many who want to shove down people's throats falsely
contrived and manipulated "lessons" that are used deliberately to
further a fallacious arrangement. The correct response is that wisdom
is gained by taking lessons that are right rather than ones that are
wrong, and by having perspective that makes such judgments possible.
Through manipulation of social climate and attitudes and actions and
reactions pursuant those attitudes, consequences are assigned to
actions that are not natural, but rather artificial & create an
impression of good actions being bad and bad actions being good. We see
that run through all societies and times. We have, for example, Pakis
saying that romance is disastrous and proving it by killing those who
fall in love. We have, for example, Cubans saying that business is
antisocial and proving it by killing those who do business. The idea of
God being through all things is used to excuse deliberate social
manipulation, by modes and creators of modes, as though those were
divinely ordained rather than manmade. The obvious problem is that
substance may manifest through nodes, but nodes, involving choice, mean
that they are not obligated to the ground of being but are as such
nodes capable of deliberate choice, God-ordained or not!
And then it is used to impose this order as though it was divine. Which
requires calling the bluff. If God is through all things, in other
words, then not only the order you create but the order I create is
manifestation of God - as is the order created by any of your other
enemies.
So we have environmental science claim that environment exists
according to its order, unless disturbed by man (devil #1). We have
systems like Confucianism that claim society as a matter of social
order having a place for everyone - place according to divine order -
unless that order is disturbed by man's ego (devil #2). We have
economic science that has applied this to economic activity and said
that all things are guided by "invisible hand" when in a "free-market"
context, with everyone competing against everyone, unless disturbed by
intellectually conceived and goal-directed political action (devil #3),
even as this same science adopts will and ego and montarily defined
self-interest (combination of devil #1 and devil #2) as basic concept
of legitimate human interest and claims the competition within
framework of law to be the natural order. After which we have the
concept of intellectual-political action uniting people in what it
believes to be intellectually right ideology; that seeks to educate
people based on intellectual and philosophical ideas and shared
interest (and which the economic mindset sees as meddling or evil or
arrogance - the same way the social interest was to the economic
mindset from the beginning - even as the media-intellectual-political
ideas created anyway necessitate for the people to move toward a place
of politics and philosophy and awareness of their civilization beyond
the dogmas of laissez-faire and even to protect laissez-faire demand
political and intellectual action on the part of the business class).
In this political-intellectual order the devil (devil #4) is
spirituality, which main proponents of this ideology see as being one
or another form of mental malfunction - much like the capitalists think
of the political-intellectual. Once that stops working, after many
corpses and disfigurements, and people start realizing after collossal
battling that, no, spiritual experience is real, the next step seeks to
create an order of people united in their spiritual experience and
loyal to their knowledge and conception of the divine. In that order,
the devil #5 is attained will. In all cases, we see a concept of
nature, then society, then economy, then intelligence, then
spirituality, then attained will, being divine; which order in all
cases starts through one or another stage of will-assertion. Each level
considers itself divine - unless disturbed by the artifact of man's
deliberate act of choice and of will as it stands to disrupt these
supposedly divine workings. And what each level fails to understand is
that the case of something being divine does not make what goes to the
next level less divine.
Each of these deified orders regard the next one as being demonic in
origin. It refers to it as one or another form of hubris, without
realising that according to a previous order it itself has been
regarded as hubris, and that what works is for gradations of hubris to
build on itself! We have evolutionists saying that the problem with the
world is that "freaks won't know their place" when if his belief in
evolution is true then it is the freaks that are the source of all
evolution, and it is their "place" to move the world forward. The
social order is based on man - the demon vis-a-vis the natural order.
The capitalist economy is based on ego - the demon vis-a-vis the social
order. The politics and ideology are based on ideology-based action,
which is the demon vis-a-vis capitalism. The same dynamics work at the
next levels. And what we are seeing at every level is, essentially,
demonization of the next stage of liberty, until it is either
supplanted by it or unless it subverts it to perpetuate itself.
The interesting part consists, once again, in the absolute insistence
of each preceding order ind the demonic quality of the coming one. The
new order gives promise to lift man to a higher level; the previous
order attacks by claiming that motive to be based in thinking oneself
better than the authority by which the order is believed to be ordained
(and to which will is made to believe to be subjugated). Essentially
each order considers the preceding level to be divine and the following
one as based in disruption of divine order. Both are right, and both
are wrong. If all is God, then so is what man does (and to all the
you-think-you're-God people, the response is: "ye are gods" is part of
the New Testament, it's a matter of how you use it). As the situation
rises, the deliberateness quotient rises, but the complexity of the
system builds. The life becomes more free of the preceding level, but
more tied to the following level. The devil becomes the shaper and is
then himself exceeded.
The patric religions and ideologies therefore envision a hierarchical
worldview, in which the levels (whether they be chakric, or corporate,
or social, or political) build on top of each other. Each succeeding
level is held in higher esteem than does the preceding, and each
succeeding level is held to be closer to the truth than the preceding.
The matric religions and ideologies envision a holistic worldview, in
which the totality of human beingness is held in similar esteem and
seen to be worthy of nurturing and existence.
I am of the belief that the two must combine, in a way that checks the
disagreeable features within each other and synergize to create the
best of all.
The hierarchical worldview is frequently visualized as a triangle, or a
pyramid. The holistic worldview is visualized as a circle, or a sphere.
The complete worldview I see as being visualized as a triangle within a
circle, or a pyramid within a sphere.
The hierarchical and holistic approaches are both ways of attaining at
divinity. Both the pyramid and the sphere are perfect, and
indestructible. It is impossible to destroy a sphere because there is
no space in it to invade it and shatter. It is impossible to destroy a
pyramid, because its sides are arranged in such a way as to make
destruction impossible.
Both are perfect; but both are also incomplete. Both likewise possess
capacity for right and capacity for wrong. The hierarchical model leads
to excellence, but also leads to cruelty and coldness and contempt for
what is held to be lower levels. The holistic model is encompassing,
but lacking the quality consideration fails to lead to improvement and
excellence. In combining the two it becomes possible for the two models
to check each other in capacity for wrong and to synergize in a way
that makes the best of both.
>From the perspective of the center of the sphere, every place on the
sphere is equidistant. To the sphere, all things are equal in worth.
The triangle however increases in worth as it rises above the
foundation. The combination of the two arrives at a correct conclusion:
That all things are equal in inborn worth (sphere) but entirely
distinct in accomplished worth (triangle).
The sphere enfolds, nurtures and gives life to all levels and the
entirety of human beingness. The pyramid motivates and structures and
leads toward higher places. When the two combine, life is served; so is
improvement. The sphere prevents the pyramid from becoming cruel and
oppressive and instead imparts beauty and goodness and kindness toward
life at all levels. The pyramid prevents the sphere from becoming
ensnaring and static and therefore guides toward excellence.
Both the sphere and the triangle serve and take away freedom. The
sphere frees from cruelty and coldness but also is capable of being
devouring and entrapping. The triangle frees from ensnarement but also
is capable of stomping, controlling and brutality. The freedom is
served, as it does in the government of checks and balances, when the
two levels must compete with each other and check each other's wrong,
while combining at what is right to achieve a greater state than each
is capable of doing.
The two levels of attaining divinity therefore must both work together
and work to check each other. The holistic gives life and goodwill to
all and makes the process beautiful rather than cruel and soulless. The
hierarchical motivates toward self-improvement and guides people to
make the most of themselves and the most of all. Like Quaballistic
pillar of mildness and pillar of severity, the sphere and the pyramid
work together to make the most of human existence: To make the most of
human experience through the the sphere's awareness and goodwill and
kindness, and to make the most of humankind through the pyramid's
rigor, motivation and demand.
In combining the sphere and the pyramid, are combined two great
approaches to wisdom. Both, I repeat, being perfect; but both being in
and of themselves incomplete. The two complete each other and check
each other's capacity for wrong, while together combining to do what
each is in of itself incapable of doing.
It is held in holistic approach that the heart is a way toward
knowledge and wisdom - that, being created in divine image, it
contains in itself blueprint for truth. It is held in hierarchical
approach that the mind is a way toward knowledge and wisdom. Both are
capable of knowledge and wisdom; but they know and are wise in
different ways. The way at which the mind and the heart both attain at
the same truth, is to be seen as the consummation. In the interim is
possible wrong in both cases; and in checking each other in doing
wrong, while guiding each other to consummation, both the holistic and
the hierarchical reduce the wrong done while improving each other and
helping each other be its best and make the most of life.
The holistic and the hierarchical, the heart and the mind, like female
and male, are of equal truth and of equal value. They synthesize to
make the most of each other and most of self and to make likewise what
has not existed before. The holistic nourishes and heals and
replenishes; the hierarchical motivates and guides. When the two come
together in mutual understanding, is achieved a state of affairs that's
both kind and excellent. And as they check and balance each other, what
is eliminated is the wrong in each other, while allowing the right in
each other to blossom and achieve more magnificent state of affairs
than one of which either is capable.
The result of this combination is complete humanity and complete human
experience, where life is made best it can be as are the living. People
are motivated to be their best; they are also given (and give) goodwill
and love and nourishment toward that purpose. The mind is improved; so
is the heart. And the mind and the heart, both being made their most
and both as such imparting of their fruits to the living, work together
to make the most of human experience, both for humanity and for each
human being.
Checking each other in each other's capacity for wrong, and synergizing
in where they are right, the hierarchical and the holistic express and
give life to and empower and challenge and vitalize the totality of
human beingness - leading toward most of human existence and most of
humankind. Through its own efforts, humanity becomes its best and makes
the most of human experience, bringing together both the holistic love
and the hierarchical excellence to make life the most it can be. Love
is served; so is improvement. And the result is the best of all worlds.
In holistic and hierarchical working together in synthesis, or synergy
within the framework of checks and balances, is achieved the optimal
state of humanity and the optimal state of life.
Ilya Shambat.
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