Installment no 2. After thinking over whether to stay linear or go beyond.
I'm going beyond. Plato suffers from nominalism. If an idea can be captured in
a word, it's
usually made into a noun which usuallly names an object which then has to be
given a location
somewhere. It's obvious that ideas don't grow on trees and are not found in
rabbit holes or
squirrel's nests, so it must be somewhere else. Since I don't speak ancient
gReek or am in
touch with the Greek zeitgeist It is possible it is not Plato but translation
into a modern
language with those faults that distort such things. Photons are an example. If
they were
actually photons, light particles, the sky should be lit up like a Neon
shopping site. It is
not, so a better explanation would be that whatever it is, a radiation, changes
into light when
hitting earth surrounding energy fields.
Occultism ditto. It talks about the Akashic records, name first coined by
Madame Blavatsky.
There are no angels with sharpened feathers writing it all down on papyrus or
bleached
sheepskins. NO factories in heaven. Heaven would need extra buildings pretty
fast, not to
ignore the legions of clerics to read them. Besides I doubt heaven is
interested in trivia
collecting. If it rains there's no little pages with placards running around
with" "this is
rain" printed on them. Rain is its own information you readily interpret, eh!
So let's assume information all sentient life is equipped to interpret to
advantage of its own
survival and comfort. A rabbit found grazing alongside a very noisy highway ran
away when
somebody trod on the grass nearby. Obviously rabbit knew the noise was not
going to kill it but
as to humans it was not so sure.
Get the message? It applies to many other things, even cosmology where we
should not plaster
our silly parochial ideas across the sky and complain when it turns out not to
be the case. I
have been visited by what one may call an angel. A polycoloured sphere, size
varies. Ancient
and up to medieval ideas have it they can shape change, something Sheldrake is
into as
morphogenesis and calls it science, haha. That happened at Lourdes when the
Virgin Mary visited
those children. Other people saw flying saucers. My daughter just visited and
told me her
oldest daughter is attended by invisible to daughter monsters who do a
brilliant job of
manipulating mummy and Daddy, which sound like an intelligent solution to me.
My own son when
he passed through the nightmare stage, which is when children discover is not
as nice a place
as they believed before, etc blahh. WE discussed the matter and invented a
lioness who slept
under the bed during the day and came out and, like the cat, to sleep at his
feet on top of the
bed. No more nightmares. I never found out where she went when he grew up some
more and did not
need her any more. Grand daughters monsters have all manner of hiding places
but they always
know when she needs them. Daughter's hubby got a new job in Wellington and
we're both curious
where the monsters are going to hide now. 2nd grad daughter has not yet decided
to join the
human race and seems like to be one of our families later developers. I very
much doubt she's
mentally deficient, just does not happen in our family. Besides her beady
little eyes are flat
out watching everything. Speaking personally I never had any invisible friends,
did not need
the. I knew quite well how to play off one addled adult against another.
Since mythology was much into process thinking about actions but
pre-alphabetic writing in
eidolon, images that included personification its quite possible Plato used the
Greek language
in that way. Indian godly pantheons and Egypt have plenty examples of the kind.
It's quite
possible to have very sophisticated thinking alongside crude portrayal. I don't
know what Plato
thought. But I'm quite sure modern translations don't have a clue about all
that. This last
sentence is an example of nominalisation as it ain't the translation but the
translators that
make the mistake, but no great matter. Always think into the blank space below
the fine print
on the bottom line.
Another time I'll talk about ARS memoriae, arts of Memory antiquity used.
Remind me if I don't.
They're used to stuff untold masses of data between the ears, needed when you
are a story
teller, poets, etc. Look up Dame Frances Yates on "the art of Memory, 1966 she
opened up this
can of worms, and Giardano Bruno, Ramon Lully, John Dee and there's now more
stuff on internet,
quite recent, getting pop, about time. It'll help you with Arica. I've got
quite a list of
them. see http://www.synaptic.ch/infoliths/textes/arsmem.htm I happened
across.
adrian
ornamentalmind wrote:
> adrian, perhaps you would be willing to share a short overview of your
> views re: Plato?
>
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