Terry Blanton wrote:
We all have the key. The courage to use it means abandoning the EGO.
I do not think this is possible. The ego and biased opinions resemble
an instrument bias. You can never eliminate it. You can reduce it to
some extent, and you can estimate the size of it and take it into account.
As Francis Bacon put it:
"The images or idols [illusions; bias] by which the mind is
preoccupied are either adventitious or innate. The adventitious have
crept into the minds of men either from the dogmas and sects of
philosophers, or the perverted rules of demonstration. But the innate
are inherent to the very nature of the understanding, which appears
to be much more prone to error than the senses. For however men may
be satisfied with themselves, and rush into a blind admiration and
almost adoration of the human mind, one thing is most certain,
namely, that as an uneven mirror changes the rays proceeding from
objects according to its own figure and position, so the mind when
affected by things through the senses does not act in the most
trustworthy manner, but inserts and mixes her own nature into that of
things, whilst clearing and recollecting her notions.
The first two species of idols are with difficulty eradicated, the
latter can never be so . . ." - Novum Organum
- Jed
