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You are a zetetic skeptic so nothing interests you other than bottom up reasoning you attempt to verify inch by inch. Top down contemplation which verifies itself by experience is foreign to you and most are like you, Yes the initial problem we experience is on the surface. We are not balanced creatures. The head, heart, and body do not cooperate so often they are in conflict and reconciled by imgination. This conflict creates all sorts of opinions which comprise our ego. It is what creates Plato’s cave or unbalanced opinions based on justifying imbalance. This is the life of the Man Animal.
Some begin to question what is all this “doing” and why am I doing it? They sense that this is not “I” I am something different than what is happening. This is the beginning of the third direction of thought. Previously a person’s life was based on duality and a life of reaction. Now the question of the heart arises who am I and why am I here. This is no longer a matter of arguing opinions but the need for direct experiential knowledge.
You seem to be caught up in duality and demand it produce proof of the conscious third direction of thought. It can’t be done. Yet when a person experiences it as young people so often do, they are open to experience. It is quickly closed by the attitudes of secular intolerance which makes a person feel embarrassed about the questions of the heart and the inadequacy of the answers they are exposed to.
The higher part of the collective human organism is what enables a person to have the impartial experience of themselves and yet be open to an even higher level of consciousness that seeks to know us. We can witness our mechanics while higher consciousness can witness our conscious part. Spirit killing is the destruction of the human need to experience what is greater than themselves. Spirit killers seek to indoctrinate people into the conclusion that there is nothing greater than society – the Great Beast. All our efforts must be put into making ourselves acceptable to the Beast.
It is far better initially to learn for ourselves personally what a balanced person is in comparison to what we are to avoid even being led further astray, It is good for society as part of its metaxu but only the beginning for the seekers of truth concerned with what we ARE in relation to the potential for human “being” as opposed to mechanical technology. Where secularism reconciles opposing opinions by a lie, universalism reconciles by a higher conscious truth within which opinions reside.
“There is always something more than two opposing truths. The whole truth always includes a third part, which is the reconciliation.”
I Am Not I.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/1 ... needleman/
“This is the entire essence of life: Who are you? What are you?” So proclaimed Leo Tolstoy in the diaries of his youth. “I: how firm a letter; how reassuring the three strokes: one vertical, proud and assertive, and then the two short horizontal lines in quick, smug succession,” eighteen-year-old Sylvia Plath marveled in her own diary a century after Tolstoy as she contemplated free will and what makes us who we are. Indeed, these three smug lines slice through the core of our experience as human beings, and yet when we begin to dismantle them, we begin to lose sight of that core, of the essence of life. What, then, are we made of? What, then, makes us?
In I Am Not I (public library), philosopher Jacob Needleman picks up where Tolstoy and Plath left off, and enlists more of humanity’s most wakeful minds — from Nietzsche and Kierkegaard to William James to D.T. Suzuki — in finding embrocation for, if not an answer to, these most restless-making questions of existence. Out of the inquiry itself arises an immensely hope-giving offering — a sort of secular sacrament illuminating what lies at the heart of the most profound experiences we’re capable of having: joy, love, hope, wonder, astonishment, transcendence.
The spirit killers offer secular answers which close the mind in the effort to make people into indoctrinated members of society. I support the efforts of those capable of having an open mind and need something more than the technology the Beast offers and feelgoodism to pacify the needs of the heart.
Matthew 22:15-22New International Version (NIV)
15 Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words.16 They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17 Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax[a] to Caesar or not?”
18 But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19 Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, 20 and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
21 “Caesar’s,” they replied.
Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
22 When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.
Secularism is only concerned with giving to the state what it takes from you. Since the Great Beast is God the secularist gives loyalty the Beast and money to the state (Caesar.) The state has the potential to be a sacrament and aid the evolution of human being. However when it has been secularized it only serves the body and spiritually kills the rest.
So if any kid starts to sense the problem and asks inappropriate questions, every attempt to spiritually kill him and these questions replaced with age appropriate ideas will be adopted. It is too insulting to let it go on. All the kid needs to know is political correctness and the laws of the state. Anything else is just disturbing the peace and must be eliminated.