Fundamentalist Christians and its Wrong Approach to Spiritual Teachings (21):
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Image and its Dialectics [Posted initially on 13th May 2021]: There is no doubt that ‘truth’ can be an ambiguous notion, and when it comes to history … notions like ‘facts’ slide between facts and myths. So, adding ‘movement’ after truth, as in ‘truth movement, is like a wave set to hit the shores of contemporary ideals. We know Christian-conspiracy- theory can be self-defeating, but in a modern context, it plays a role in shaping social and political ideals. It’s gnostic but a debased version of Gnosticism. Often, their absolutism creates a duality of ideals or dialectic polarity of truth and can usually lead to a perpetual stalemate. All this is a form of an information war waged upon you and is strongly Hegelian and rational in its dialectic approach, making no room for the true spiritual Gnostic self.
The debasement version of Gnosticism would mean that the word ‘meaning’ would not reach its synthesis. This means the evaluation of ‘things,’ events, people, etc. When one can see/perceive a value in/of something, someone, etc., one can establish a meaningful relationship with the other (being ‘thing’). Meaning is a perceived value attached to something, some person, situation, or event concepts/beliefs (religion with its symbols and ideas). This type of meaning is fully charged (emotional issues)… often there are several levels to ‘value’ and ‘meaning’, varying from survival value to aesthetic value and intangible value. The association with meaning can take time; specific frameworks and contexts must be present for meaning to emerge. We can further appreciate authentic content by developing our simple perception and intuitive awareness. Marty Monteiro has developed a theory of interaction that incorporates some essential features in this regard.
This can benefit and connect people with meaningful context and meaning, which otherwise may be perverted; this process can stimulate intuition in oneself, determining the result from the work they set up upon themselves. A gradual comprehension of information allows intuition to grow. The spiritualist teacher must often finish, re-educate or re-contextualise mainstream Christian’s many claims of truth or half-truth. The canon paradigm in which Christians follow to a fault without question is concerning. Due to occult texts (like the Nag-Hammadi, the Book of Enoch, and so forth), the Gospel of Christ and occult (hidden) teachings cannot be separated.
The term ‘modern myth’ as a focal point at this time is inaccurate; one must view it timelessly and truth as a timeless quality. This attribute can never really be modern in a post-Jung, post-Campbell era. View it in the way of new units coming in, but the name of those units (myth) is still the same. A typical case … using the movie The Matrix as an example: the ‘Agents’ (gatekeepers, techno-archons) are Angels (or Archons) of old. Within this, also viewing ‘myth’ as something more important than fact – facts can change, and there is a transient quality to facts. Blavatsky also mentions that one must go through several factors in interpreting myths.
These units are often understood with more meaning, which usually coincides with an awakening in the spiritual and the false constructs of the world. The archetypical ‘hero call’ is often led by that awakening and afterwards a ‘mission.’ The illusion of a system that sits upon a false one hints at an allegorical truism in today’s society. Stephen Hoeller, paraphrasing Alan Watt, ascribes to the notion that our lives are about: “taking away the pejorative meaning of disillusionment and we should re-establish the idea that we all need to be disillusioned, having our illusion taken away …because only in that way, we can find our way to reality.” (Hoeller, S)
The viewpoint of living in an illusory world and that we need to cut through that illusion world and awake from it, and when we awaken, we are not going to awaken to something good right away, but rather the awareness of things that are darker and more powerful, more conspiring, the result of that presence … maybe, is a way to achieving our freedom (the first steps before taking physical action) by the liberation of the self within. It is slightly differentiated by Christians’ belief in the faith of Christ, but not the Christos; there are many steps to this, and at least they have the first one (or be it a transfixed step).
This, in turn, has ultimately dampened society’s transcendental progression, and so when one is confronted by such extremism, people lack spiritual strength because they are not connected with anything. Except for our bodies, money and ideals, this will be an unsustainable living process during a specific time and when reaching that peak. The answer to such a problem is to recover your spiritual roots but realise there are no recognisable differences between transcendental awakening and spiritual recognition of human potential. On the other hand, one aspect of the two …must go deeper; there will be no spiritual effective potential as long as we stay in a limited state of consciousness; an example of such limitation takes form in a dialectic approach, but before critical dialecticism, one must understand symbols and images through general semantics, as to identify any blockages.
This, in turn, has ultimately dampened society’s transcendental progression, so when confronted by such extremism, people lack spiritual strength because they are not connected with anything. Except for our bodies, money and ideals, this will be an unsustainable living process during a specific time and we are reaching that peak. The answer to such a problem is to recover your spiritual roots but realise there are no recognisable differences between transcendental awakening and spiritual recognition of human potential. On the other hand, one aspect of the two …must go deeper; there will be no spiritual effective potential as long as we stay in a limited state of consciousness; an example of such limitation takes form in a dialectic approach, but before critical dialecticism, one must understand symbols and images through general semantics, as to identify any blockages.
Korzybski (Vitvan’s) General Semantics: Vitvan’s re-interpretation of (Korzybski) General Semantics is about developing forces and energies that are in Mother Nature by understanding it to an extent that is helpful to everyone, and in its simplicity, becomes effective in the understanding process. Through ignorance and reification of symbols and words, over-intellectualisation and 2000 years of knowledge being suppressed have steered the human population astray. This turning point has blocked the natural flow of energy to a large degree, and it has become an expression of something else entirely. This is something else that now forms the basis of what we know civilisation to be. An overemphasis on materialism fuelled by egoism is a distortion of the minds of the human race, resulting in the forgetting of our true purpose and destiny.
Vitvan emphasises that we live in a dynamic energy world, out of which eventuate ‘things’, ‘bodies’, the configuration of units of energy. The conception of ‘things’ and ‘bodies’ are part of a semantic device, a sort of artefact that helps people remember that those artefacts do not exist. Therefore, energy and the configurations of units of those energies are all there is. Vitvan expresses that subtle energies are a natural phenomenon, intrinsic to nature and somewhat a proto-antithesis to a metaphysics mindset. This distinction is not new, but a way to express an aspect of consciousness through a filter of a science-spiritual definition; Vivtvan foresaw a change of this mentality, a change in orientation towards life, a splitting in the mind taking place in the world. One is stuck in a static ‘material’ world; the other is about new ideas on how to live sustainably.
A way to view general semantics is through one of two paradigms: one, using the analogy of how a camera works: how the lens processes images through a plate, and two, by the focused manifestations of the mind through electrical and magnetic neurons. The difference or (a closer truth) between the old and new paradigm is that ‘light’ is thought, and the thought of what we are intended to see is implanted within the liquid crystal prism of the brain.
What is an abstraction? It is ‘to draw from’, drawing/receiving stimuli while also meaning ‘drawing inferences’. An essential factor is that the image is not the ‘thing-in-itself’. Identifying the two in the same way confuses the order of abstraction. The zero-order must come before the first, and that zero order is the ‘energy configuration’; any confusion with an image of the ‘thing’ itself is to live in ignorance about the dynamic nature of life’s processes. Physicists postulate that there is no ‘static world’; everything changes and transforms internally and externally. Furthermore, only a tiny portion is registered and processed from the infinite range of frequencies/energies. This means that only some bandwidths can be registered in the very nature and structure of the human nervous system, and so many aspects of nature are unknown to us. In the film, the matrix neo approaches cipher after his slumber and asks Cypher, ‘Do you always see it in coding?’ where Cypher replies, ‘‘well, you have to; image translators work for the program’. – (The Matrix 1999)
Spiritual evolution takes form in cellular upregulation through light waves and other factors; the result is having more enzymes waking up or a re-connection both in the cells and psyche to a past where we had a higher spiritual self. If you think the old paradigm is abstract, the new paradigm goes deeper. The dialectical response to the ‘thing itself’ not being the image is that ‘thing itself’ is pre-implanted through our brains as subliminal suggestions, and we believe in these senses when all it is …is light.
The second order of abstraction is labelling, when one assigns a label (word) to the image, which becomes substantive. This is an unconscious expression, ‘a tree’, ‘my body’, ‘my wife / my husband’, etc. General semantics is about identifying symbols (words) and becoming aware of the conscious and unconscious aspects of it. Order of abstraction is a natural process, but it has pitfalls, and one of those pitfalls is identifying the word with the label when the label stands for the image or the ‘thing itself’. Korzybski said: ‘The map is not the territory’; this is what general semantics is about. You won’t find these thought processes in our educational system; the corruption lies in ignorance. If such a notion is embraced by academic institutions, such knowledge can work as programs that can factor in …a collective change of thought.
Corruption (confusion) in the orders of abstraction: Understanding general semantics is a way to decipher mind viruses brainwashing mechanisms (advertising, media –alternative/mainstream), which is a way of controlling or managing truth. Liberation from such structures validates a higher truth to recognise well–funded, well-planned false flags and hoaxes, which rarely have victims, but not always (one event that stands apart is the 9/11 event, a false flag event that had victims, a constructed situation using technological advancements with corrupt institutional backings, which makes this event a pivotal point in history because they made themselves known).
Post 9/11 showed or awakened people to a new enemy, an empire, to which most people were oblivious. Also, the realisation of how deep the control goes from media (entertainment/reality) to corporatism to government. The result of this event paved the way for a rampart disinformation and misinformation dialectical war on everything under the sun. Many vested interests are at stake, so being alert to mainstream, independent, and alternative media raises self-awareness and can change the structure from the bottom up. Subgroups will emerge within each group, such as alternatives to alternative media, because truth can be manipulated or bought. Ultimately, individuals must take responsibility for discerning the truth. An essential factor is having ‘faith’—not just faith in God, but also a broader sense of faith itself.
Examples of confused abstraction:
There is a Human tendency to identify them with the images they abstract from the dynamic configurations in the energy world. Along with adding values attributed to these images, a world of false-to-fact abstractions is built, hampering a free flow of creative energy. This leads to what we call ‘blockages” (also leading to blockages in the nervous system, ‘body’, etc.) The solution is to abstract consciously, about which Vitvan writes in his booklets’ Veil of Maya’, ‘Perceptive Insight’ and ‘Clear Thinking’. (Euser M, 2007)
Vitvan recommends not using words for which no proper referent or reference has been established, building up words, labels, and so forth for higher order abstractions. We form notions upon hearing words we don’t have referents, so the nervous system creates artificial referents after repeated exposure to such words. As a result of false-to-fact notions, continual, habitual use of words that do not have referents is devastating, both individually and racially. There is no way to Jump from ‘C’ to ‘A’ without proper indication, and strictly advice not to use words with no referents.
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