I’m trying to choose my words very carefully here because this is important. We seek catalyst to expand our own understanding. We don’t read a book for the wisdom contained in it. We read a book to be stimulated by the concepts contained within it. Then we form our own concepts that belong only to us. We learn from others and apply what we have learned to our own lives, adapting it as needed. We are not clones of each other and never can be. Each one of us is unique and the same catalyst will affect each of us differently.
It is never enough to be able to repeat what someone else does or believes. We must integrate it and do or say it in our own words and in our own ways. This is the opposite of a computer program or a hive mentality in which each is a copy or reproduction of all the others. This is two totally different approaches in which one leads to stagnation and death and the other leads to creative adaptation and life. Choose wisely!
Let’s explore the difference between a paradigm and a matrix. A paradigm is a complete and fully functioning belief system. A matrix is an integrated collection of self evident truths! Can you discern the distinction? You arrive at your beliefs in various ways, including life experience, logic and reason and philosophical thought. But they remain beliefs that might not be accurate reflections of what really exists.
A matrix on the other hand is a collection of self evident truths that once you are confronted by them and exposed to them you cannot avoid them or deny them. There is no logic and reason about them. They simply are and most people run and hide from them in a desperate attempt to maintain the sanctity of their beliefs and paradigm structures. A matrix will always be a threat to a belief system or paradigm.
If we explore this further we discover that self evident truths are instantaneous perceptions that occur in mystical illuminations or direct personal experience while beliefs are most often contrived through logic and reason or a blind acceptance of social mores.
What happens is that someone will have a sudden illumination or glimpse of a self evident truth and keeping that seed of truth will seek to embellish it and expand it to fit other things. For example Freud glimpsed the self evident truth of how important sexuality is in our lives, in our mental and emotional health, and he sought to make sexuality the reason for everything. He began with a core of self evident truth and then lost it by trying to expand it. The same can be said for almost any paradigm. It begins with a core seed of self evident truth and is then expanded to absurdity.
In Organic Gnosticism I’ve sought to collect these seeds of self evident truth and leave them as simple seeds without expanding them. After I collected enough of them they began to crystallize and merge on their own into a mutually supportive matrix that is extremely potent and powerful in its effects. What I had was not a theoretical paradigm, but a collection of self evident truths that were often at odds with currently accepted and politically correct thought. I will continue this in my next post.
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