The Era of Natural Philosophy & End Times Prophecy?

 

This personal blog post continues the theme of the previous post: Creation, God, Jesus, & Resurrected Truth? And the post that effectively begins a new series of posts, since my initiatory series on perceptual wisdom & realized being, began back in 2019. With these new posts explaining all that I've learned about perceptual wisdom and realized being since then. 

Especially the undeniable truth that language makes us human beings feel like we are more conscious of reality than we truthfully are. And why this post is about the historical era of natural philosophy, and how it led to an end times prophecy that is bound to come true. Please consider:

The era of natural philosophy spanned from ancient Greek antiquity in the 6th century BCE through the 19th century, serving as the historical precursor to modern empirical science. It covered the study of the physical universe before splitting into specialized modern disciplines like physics, chemistry, and biology.

With this new series of posts taking on the existential challenge of the final post in the previous series: Humanity's Reification Redemption Challenge back in September 2022. When I wrote about my fears for generation Alpha and the world they will inherit, as an escalating mess created by my baby boomer (post world war II) generation. 

Especially all that hope for the world to come during the decade of the 1960s, cultural revolution. Like the lyrics of the Beatles classic "All You Need Is Love" Which many people of my generation thought was a fitting tribute to the pro-love anti-ignorance natural philosopher, Jesus of Nazareth. As we puzzled over the existential meaning of the verse lines:

Nothing you can make that can't be made
No one you can save that can't be saved
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time
It's easy

With a friend of mine making the interesting observation that the verse lines of popular songs have something in common with verse lines in the Bible. Mind you, she did come from a devout Catholic family, and regularly confessed her sin of preferring rock guitarists and rock concerts to Catholic Confessions. "Its dead boring," she used to say, with typically ironic & sarcastic Mancunian humor.

Creation, God, Jesus, & Resurrected Truth?

 

This post follows the theme of: Are Words Reality? And is Humanity Truly Awake? In exploring the nature of perception, for biologically conceived human beings, and our relationship with reality. In the historical context of the story of Jesus of Nazareth, and what the story "cryptically" conveys about Creation, God, & Reality. As I ask you to consider whether the world famous cross of crucifixion, is actually a symbol of a balanced human consciousness? A needed balance, cryptically conveyed in one of Jesus' famous sayings: "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make free?" 

If we contemplate the possibility that this famous story, is subconsciously motivated by the subconsciously motivated beings, that we all are? That the story is most likely about our species oldest and most universal fear, the darkness of night? And the truth of the darkness within us all, as our conscious unawareness of our own reality, and the earth-turning reality of our existence in time? That the whole Christian Bible, is about the truth of the darkness within us? And our species perennial need to balance our human experience of consciousness?

Are Words Reality? And is Humanity Truly Awake?

 

Is this one of those images that speaks a thousand words, so to speak? About a behaviorally subconscious phenomenon, intellectually thought of as reification and more viscerally understood as our mind's habit of thingification? And put more simply, is it about an age-old problem with humanity's waking dream of a consensus reality? I mean why did the DeepAI.com algorithm create this image of objects atop a human head? In response to the prompt, "transcending confusion & the greater awakening?" As this blog-post asks the questions; "are words reality? & is humanity truly awake?" In an attempt to convey how language makes us humans feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we truthfully are.

With the question "are words reality" related to our unwitting habit of judging our own reality and the reality of the world around us. And the question "is humanity truly awake" is related to the functionally automatic nature of our adult behaviors. Like how learning to ride a bike becomes functionally automatic with practice, just like learning to drive a car did. In the same way learning to think, speak & write words became functionally automatic when we were children. 

The Christ-Mind Awareness of a Simple Truth?

 

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.

As you can see by the date of this blog post, it's been a while since I wrote the post: Humanity's Reification Redemption Challenge As I continue my efforts to understand the historical nature of the perceptual wisdom of realized being, and the personal meaning of the word Christ. How its "anointed one" meaning applies to the biologically anointed mind of the biologically conceived creatures, named human. And our species-specific preference for unwittingly valuing the nature of language above and beyond the nature of reality. And thereby burying God, as the reality of creation, with our the reality-labeling words of our conditioned mind's, matrix of allusions.

So this personal blog post is essentially about humanity's linguistically confused sense of reality, and resurrecting God, aka the reality of creation, and understanding the simple truth about human languages, cryptically described in the Bible. After so many years of exploring the implicit—suggested but not directly stated—meanings of a Biblical treatise on the human condition. Or how the first book and the last book of the Christian Bible, disguise a simple truth about our human perceptions of reality. That is inherent in the tree of knowledge we all call language. As I write the preface of a book about the Jesus story's spiritual diagnosis of humanity, and the personal nature of spiritual self diagnosis and realized being.

While this blog post comes after writing a post on Substack.com that has seen my account suspended for what was first deemed a spamming offence, and then a content rules offence. With no subsequent explanation, despite my request, of what I assume was a large language model, computer based AI decision. And that post is essentially about trying to understand the existentially confusing relationship between the recursive nature of language and the nature of reality. 

Especially the simple truth that the recursive nature of language makes us all feel like we are more conscious of reality, than we actually are. As the subconsciously orchestrated nature of our every behavior, sees us fail to notice the way we simultaneously describe and disguise reality, with reality-labeling words. A simple truth you can attest to, by looking at your hands and asking yourself; "how" is the word hands, making me consciously aware of the reality of my hands? As you see the surface-level reality of your hands, that is being received by the biological reality of your eyes. Those biological organs of consciousness, of the biologically conceived creature that you are. As you find yourself performing a spiritual self-diagnosis, of your own reality.

Because you were simultaneously breathing as you asked yourself this question about the relationship between the recursive nature language and your own reality. Performing a spiritual self-diagnosis, even if you are unaware that the root meaning of the words; spirit, spiritual, and spirituality, is Breath. While in the context of the simple truths that lead us towards realized being, please consider and contemplate:

(At their core, the words spirit, spiritual, and spirituality all trace their etymological roots back to the physical act of breathing.

Spirit: Originates from the Latin noun spiritus. Its literal root meaning is "a breathing," "breath," or "the breath of life". It is derived from the Latin verb spirare, which simply means "to breathe".

Spiritual: Derived from the Latin adjective spiritualis, which was built upon the word spiritus. In its original historical context (particularly in early Christian writings translating the Greek pneuma and Hebrew ruach for breath/spirit), it meant "of or concerning the spirit". Originally, it was meant to contrast with "flesh"—describing a person or thing animated or influenced 

by divine breath.

Spirituality: Comes from the Late Latin noun spiritualitas (via French), also rooted in spirare. Historically, it referred to a state of living oriented toward the divine spirit, but it has since evolved in modern usage to encompass an individual's personal quest for meaning, inner life, and connection to something larger than themselves.

Throughout ancient languages—including Greek and Hebrew—the concepts of wind, breath, and the unseen driving force of life were deeply intertwined.) A Google AI Overview

Humanity's Reification Redemption Challenge

 You live in a deranged age—more deranged than usual—because despite 

great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea

of who he is or what he is doing. — Walker Percy

As a baby-boomer of post world war two conception this image reminds me of Pink Floyd’s song Another Brick in the Wall and contemplating how my beliefs were built up from infancy. Along with the memory of an old monk saying “words are not reality and only experience reveals the nature of being.” As well as Socrates’ “true knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.” And writing this paragraph I'm singing “we need education to thrive, not just survive,” in harmony with the remembered melody of Pink Floyd’s song.

The Walker Percy quote heads the list of quotations opening the epilogue of Iain McGilchrist’s challenging book with its apt subtitle; Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World. While this chapter/post title, Humanity’s Reification Redemption Challenge reflects the idea that human history will repeat itself until we all notice how our unmaking of the world is caused by a conscious reification-fallacy.

Suggesting we need a synthesis of knowledge to increase our depth of understanding and awareness of the unseen reality of our body and the cosmos we inhabit. While inside my skull Pink Floyd song-line “we don’t need no education” has become “we don’t need no reification.” As I build on the last chapter/post idea that humanity needs a perceptual wisdom revolution to face mounting global challenges and save itself from itself.

A Perceptual Wisdom Revolution

 

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we
really believe in, and those we never think to question. ― Orson Scott Card

Orsan Scott Card’s comment sums up the way I began self-questioning beliefs about my reality while reading neuroscience accounts of nervous system function back in 2007. The calendar year concept of space-time that in hindsight, was the beginning of trying to understand my reality from the inside-out. The period of my life when I started to make sense of experiences of being the earth turning in space, as a visceral challenge to my consciousness.

A challenge that, in hindsight, has always been the need for a re-adaptation of my mind towards a more heart-felt  and embodied sense of reality. Which I now understand as the birth-right challenge expressed in the cryptic clues of ancient wisdom symbols and stories. Like the symbolic image of family life within the horizons of the Aten and Jesus upon a metaphorical cross of space-time.

I believe the intuition in Bob Marley’s revolution solution idea sums up the synchronous reality of human history. Just I believe in our innate capacity for developing a higher consciousness involving deeper insights and understandings of reality. As I continue to wrestle with two cryptic sayings of an old Buddhist monk in Thailand, “Words are not reality?” ― “Only experience reveals the nature of being?”

Our Twice Born Experience of Being & Belief

 

If I have ever seen magic, it has been in Africa. ― John Hemingway

This post looks at the evolutionary magic of how consciousness became twice born over thousands of years in Africa. Twice born through our need to communicate by using the symbolic nature of language to describe our experience of life. Creating a flow of attention + awareness towards the reality of the world that differs from any other creature on the planet, as we learned to overlay the momentary (millisecond) nature of perceptual events with names.

Creating thousands of names for our human experience and many names for the same experience. A pattern still replicated all over the planet as people grow into the experience of being human. The blog/book represents my decades long journey to develop a whole life perspective on the experience of being and belief.

Following an intuition that many ancient sayings and stories allude to a need for illusion transcending perceptual wisdom. After spending most of my life confusing my intellectual ability to master information with my intuitive sense of insight and understanding. An intuitive ability that inexplicably involves both my body and my mind in that way implied by the not-two meaning of non-duality.

The Sentient (feeling) Experience of Heaven

 

Without the aid 3d glasses and technology we can't perceive the reality captured within this 3d photo? And in the context of perceptual wisdom and realized being can any words define our 5-senses experience of that reality? Recall Socrates' "When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe, it is then you shall have it." Advice that speaks to the sentient ― endowed with feeling consciousness ― spirit of a whole, body-mind experience. 

This post examines the subjects of self-deception and psycho-spiritual rebirth touched on in the previous post. As we continue to explore the role imagination, language, and memory plays in human consciousness. With the photos and videos below providing examples of the perceptual challenge involved in a truly sentient experience of heaven.  

The Affect of Information on Imagined Reality

 

Reason without affect would be impotent,
affect without reason would be blind. ― Silvan Tomkins

Still seeking the perceptual wisdom of cosmic integration this post continues with the idea that our conscious mind is an adaptation of imagination. Introducing this unfamiliar word ‘affect’ into our contemplation of the subconscious + conscious way we human beings function. Tomkins’ quote speaks to the subconscious nature of behavior and conscious nature of our perceptual paradox. 

And by way of analogy the grammar checking algorithms of artificial intelligence testify to our unfamiliarity with innate affect and its role in human consciousness. Try a search for 'affect' and see the programmed assumption you meant to type 'effect.' In a clear demonstration of how AI mimics our conscious sense of reality with its hard-wired memory system.

Here we explore innate affect’s role in the subconscious judgments involved in our perceptions based on Tomkins Affect Theory. With nine innate affects observed as a stimulus response system that manages the way reality affects our body-mind and its stimulated responses to experiences. 

Responses like the subconsciously orchestrated motions of our eyes, lungs and limbs at birth. Like the subconsciously orchestrated responses to the words our parents used to convey reality defining information and create the ideas of our mind. Our conscious mind's imagined sense of reality?

Practicing Perceptual Wisdom & Realized Being

 

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want to breathe,
it is then you shall have it. ― Socrates

Do we read Socrates’ comment on the visceral nature of insight and the personal experience of wisdom with a false sense of history and automatically ignore it? And is that because our consensus-reality thoughts are out-of-touch with the embodied nature of our mind and the 4-dimensional nature of reality? This post examines a via-negative way to the perceptual wisdom of realized being and why not knowing is more important than knowing.

Exploring the dialectic way a negative self-questioning undermines the spirit of logical positivism and creates an experience of psycho-spiritual rebirth. Because when we accept our subconsciously orchestrated behaviors and recognize the spiritual truth of the ancient wisdom saying; Know Thyself. We find ourselves on a realized-being journey of ascension and rediscovering the cosmic reality of divinity.