Whose translation of the Rg V is that in? It's very good, except we can now improve on the wording. Antiquity used the heart as a symbol'image of holistic understanding that results by balancing and integrating inner and outer. It's in the balancing act of the "quick mind" that the quality of insight emerges. Intuition usually pops up when relaxed and not thinking of anything in particular. It's a bit of a timid beastie. At first it pops up sporadically so needs encouragement. One poet mentions that to give it a chance you have to appear to do a lot of nothing much. I use it by poking in the expectancy that I've known this before and simply wait for it to pop up. In writing I put in a string of ???? and when I go back over it again fill in the gaps. Usually works in second but may take weeks. In my case it comes in the abstract, without form but it can deploy every sensory style of imagination. Fi in seeing auras one relies on the background part of the retina which detects motion. So you have to relax seeing into somewhat like a blank stare or use ganzfeld, ie, cut a pingpong ball in half, stick together with elastic and clap over the eyes. I tried Lilly's epsom salts sensory deprivation bath but found it disappointing.
LOGIC, it appears that the use of "ALL" guarantees a wild generalisation and carries a buried paradox. I'll start on my Episteme, next post. adrian How many people on this list? There seem to be, as usual, a lot of lurkers? I fancy I sort of have the measure of this group, using the foot putting tactic. The composition is fairly typical. "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." Howard Aiken, computer geek. More usually many of then rush in to plaster their own over them. I'll clear one bicker first. From Onelook: sentience: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness. RogetIII, 1995 concurs with several others there's no synonym for sentience. That's why I picked on it. Of course it includes man's, but it applies to everything for once, including IT or intelligence transcendent, aka god. It makes it out as a universal, so subsidiary instances. I suppose one could say that every baby, etc. everything, is born with undifferentiated sentience which is soon filled up with an individual content. adrian ornamentalmind wrote: > I'm delving into Integral Phil. now. > And, yes, IQ tests specific test taking...not full agility of > cognition etc. > Thanks for the 4 rhetorics...direct apprehension, intuition, > contemplation, analogy and ignorance make a good list. > About the ancient floods...until I moved to the Pacific NW, I had > never heard of the Missoula Floods...a fascinating thing to learn > about...and see all around this area. > One generic site to jump off of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_Floods > By the way, I chatted with Bjornstad a bit when he came here to talk > about it. His newer book "On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods, A > geological field guide to the Mid-Columbia Basin", although dry...and > more of a how to travel the area..is very well documented. > One last one from the Rig Veda: > "When Men of the Word, companions, worship, in their hearts refining > flashes of insight, then some become fully conscious of knowledge, > while others go their way mouthing empty words." Rig-Veda > Yes, heuristics perhaps...and a coherent praxis for sure. > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
