@NatureSchoolSU Sniffing about in '94, I met with Willis Harman of the IONS and, separately, the manager of London's anthroposophical bookstore. When I raised the topic of intuition, both ignited like fuses finding flame—a pivotal suprapersonal threshold confirmed. Later, among contemplatives...
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On holistic experience, essentially Thomistic 'intuition of being', Richard Rohr: "Ideas are not a problem, but a true inner experience is something else: “full-access knowing”—prerational, nonrational, rational, and transrational all at once. [It] refuses to be reductionistic.” 1/6 🧵"Nothing is more injurious to immediate experience than cognition," noted Jung, echoing a universal planetary refrain delineating the deeper ground of a supreme aspect of being independent of encapsulation in any ‘a priori’ scheme of ideas, conceptions, or ideologies. 2/ If not unity, what do we 'see' then? As a rule, an identification with the distinctions and divisions of materialist and religious logic; the forms, concepts, rationalizations and, ultimately, caricatures of reality co-existent with fallacies of ontological detachment. Quote tweet: Happold named it, "depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect"; Sufis, "the consternation of intelligence", revealed when one has found freedom from opinion. Einstein: "Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world."
Open original document@Plough There's more. Conscience, a universal human endowment, is the supernatural virtue of authenticity in the domain of thought, a vector of divine presence and purpose, and an embodied conduit whereby divine guidance infuses and transforms history and reality in its co-creative lure.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: The true authority of the illuminated conscience. "The spirituality of our times requires a shift from merely awakening consciousness to the awakening of the conscience, which encompasses a realization of interdependence and interconnection between all beings." - Pir Vilayat Khan 7/ What is it then, to reconcile our autobiographies to the enormous force of the spirit of an age, to wed consciousness to conscience in the concrete embodiment of a personal response proportionate to the needs of our era, concomitant to awakening to life's intrinsic wholeness?