| | | | Good old Ornstein, he always takes me to a new place I can believe in. You will like this roadwalker.
Remember this guy has spent 50 years as a research psychologist and teaches at Stanford and UC medical school. He is the real deal.
Ornstein: "According to esoteric tradition, the organ of perception, which can be
(tutored in the same fashion as is language) is what we term intuition.
Although the phrase is often maligned, conventionally used to indicate random guesswork or mysterious combination of elements, it should be properly understood as "knowledge without recourse to inference".
The diverse and seemingly unconnected practices of religious and esoteric conditions centered around the cultivation of what we might call nonlinear immediate understanding, and complement to the inferential, meditated, ordered sequence of rational thought. The metaphor of site is often employed, it is like explaining to a blind man what color is like."
koan: So here is what he is saying, I think. Some knowledge cannot be understood, nor explained through language. Existentialism and ZEN would be two of these, IMO. That is why the Zen masters never try to explain it, but rather help the student to see it for themselves. Intuit it.
I never understood it like that before. I always referred to it as seeing it "in my minds eye". But I can see he is correct. I had been out of school years before I "saw existentialism in my minds eye". It just popped up one day and then later Zen.
I was seeing the "whole elephant" not just a trunk or a leg. It is sort of like critical mass. Through study, it just popped up one day. Einstein sort of implied that is how he "saw" relativity. One day he just saw it.
So in the east they actually teach this, but in the west we do not even recognize it as a real thing, but rather as a pseudo science..
Three books:
The Evolution of Consciousness - the biological evolution of the mind and structure - ie. we have many minds
The MInd field - eastern thinking and other intellectual perspectives
Multimind - virtual reality |
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