We are going to continue with the history of the Church and how the general population reacted after it became standard practice for priests to be celibate. The Church then turned to an even bigger problem. The growing threat of logic and reason!
People were beginning to get into all this head trippy stuff and it was stimulating the philosophers into new debate about all kinds of things.
Now if every word corresponds to an idea and every idea contains an essence of true reality than the correct use of words as ideas and logic is the true science. This is the escape from reality which they created for themselves.
Let’s make everything in the mind and if it’s all in the mind then true science is in the mind as well!. You can go into the mind to discover the reality behind physical reality. That was their thought. So there was no longer any need to observe physical reality and its influences. They were free to ignore the physical and just focus on what is behind the physical. The true reality that exists in the mind.
Pay attention to your thoughts, because those thoughts are the ultimate reality. Just as the ego, the sense of self, or the watcher self, represents the soul or the true essence of who you are. But our souls are much more than mental energies! They also include or could include all the other energies of life experience as well. Living in one’s head is really an escape from reality and a delusion. It is the combination of the head and heart energies that bring compassion and love into the world.
So the elite, the educated, gave up thinking about the physical world and withdrew even deeper into their heads in a denial of physical life. They dug up fragments of Aristotle that had been translated by the Arabs and wrote commentaries on them. Then they wrote commentaries on the commentaries until these head trippers were able to logically prove the divinity of Christ and his martyrdom. You can prove anything you want using logic and reason! And then they proved that the entire Christian doctrine was based upon Aristotle and his philosophy!
The great philosophers of the dark ages were Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus. Thomas Aquinas brooded over the psychology of angels and Duns Scotus discovered the thinking machine in man.
What is the thinking machine? What it means is that people think like a machine. It’s like computer code created from associated thoughts that are all linked in some way.
If true existence is immortal and nonphysical it’s all in our heads anyway. Then words are things. Ideas are things. Every combination of words represents compilations of things and realities. This is just like computer code. I am reminded of Sigmund Freud with his theory of free association. One thought is connected to another thought is connected to another thought and there is a meaning behind those connections just like there is in computer code.
Awareness strings these things together, but the words and concepts have to be in the proper sequence to be understood properly. Putting words together in the correct sequence brings perception of reality just like getting the computer code right makes the program work properly and then things happen right. This is the idea of the thinking machine.
The logical sequence of associated words and ideas gives us the thinking machine and you don’t even need to think about it if you have the right code. If you have the right computer code you don’t have to think about it because awareness just goes where you want to go. That’s what the church was saying! That they were providing the correct code to the masses and if the masses would just believe what they told everything would be fine!
That was the plan, but logic and reason can only go so far and it led to paradox.
There are two sides to every equation and I know in my own life that when I’ve debated something all of a sudden I found that I was debating the other side when trying to prove a point. It’s a very slippery thing.
Logic and reason lead to paradox and that’s what the church wanted. They wanted the paradox to come in and then everybody would be stalled. Everybody would be trapped by the computer program of Church doctrine. They would be controlled and they wouldn’t be thinking their own thoughts. They would just be parroting computer programming code and so the church would be safe. Or so it thought.
Today’s world is doing the same thing. They are using words like computer code. They are using trigger words and always putting them in the same sequence so that people always arrive at the same conclusions. This is what politically correct is all about.
If you are fed the same string of ideas you are going to arrive at the same reality and it’s dangerous to break the computer code. That’s because you don’t know if you are going to end up in the same reality. You might end up thinking for yourself and that would be a bad thing!
Well for some of us that’s a good thing because we believe in self-determination. I believe in free will. I believe in trying to think for myself and I don’t like external authorities dictating what I should be believing and what I should be doing.
That’s just me personally. And I’ve always had a problem with external authority, but this entire concept, this concept about thought as a chain of association is very powerful. It was recognized by Sigmund Freud with his free association theory. Then Scientology improved upon it by going back on the timeline in memory to the first moment of pain.
It is important to recognize that this is real, that awareness travels lines of thought just like a computer and that it is in fact, an organic computer.
It is a kind of thinking machine. I’ve been amazed! I’ve been studying some computer programming and I am amazed at how similar the fundamentals are between coding computer language programs, and the way human thought works.
They were really onto something here, but there’s a problem because physical reality is organic and we live in a physical world. It may act as a machine as well. It may also react in a similar way to what computer code does.
But there has to be an association. The words that you use and the ideas that you use have to have an association with physical reality. Otherwise they are divorced from each other and that’s the trick.
What happens in the computer industry? I’m going to give this as an example. We are limited by the computer language we use. The programmer language that we use limits what we can do and every generation or so a new language is invented that’s more complex and that will allow us to do more things in our programming.
That’s what’s happening now. The natural evolution of thought is to find new words, and new associations, new thoughts, so we can do things that were never before even considered possible! Every new generation brings something new and that’s how humanity evolves!
PS: I’ve created a new Facebook discussion group called Organic Gnosticism. Feel free to join if interested.
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