John D. Brey
Well-Known Member
We only respond like this when we are still attached to drinking old wine. Similarly, we don’t get to know what we’ll find in the chaotic unknown as long as we still consider staying in the counterfeit Garden.
It’s not about a new belief system replacing an old belief system within the domain of rationality. It’s irrationality vs rationality, truthful blindness vs deceptive vision.
Since we have invited death in — which you have effectively described — we have also invited in the resistance to everlasting life. What makes sense to us, the wide road leading to the wide gate, is not the way. Our desire is the way, but not the desires that are filtered through our concealed values. In that situation, we get what we value packaged with a counterfeit fulfilled desire rather than what we truly desire.
One of the things I, for myself at least, consider important, is to shy away from pure mysticism where all the concepts are floating in a chaotic ether so that any word or concept can mean whatever the speaker or writer wants it to mean; and where they can change the meaning if need be.
Even a concept that comes from irrationality must tether itself to a rational argument; or make itself reasonable through a rational argument.
Imo we need to strive to make irrational intuitions and revelations serve the community that functions through rational communication. Private insights, though valuable to the individual, are quite possibly worthless, or worse, in a communal environment.
John