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Roy
Quasi-Infallible Egocentric Tyrant
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Posted: Sat Dec 31st, 2005 09:07 pm |
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Life is not a series of analyses, but a series of judgments about value aided and assisted by analysis.
The body, the home of the Queendom of Sensation, is part of that process. All of our organ systems have some kind of analogue in the psyche.
Psychic castration is a reality for men and women and impedes both the intensity of response, its timing and the urgency needed to take on the battles of the world.
The mind with its reasoning, if there with reasoning, is not a substitute for the Self, the totality of the psyche and the body's contribution..
As Gurdjieff explained, the emotional body is the horse, the source of the energy responsible for doing the heavy lifting in life, dragging about the body and so on.
We are often "saddled" by minds that cannot read the "horse" and cannot take care of the horse as well.
Jung's work would be part of an education of the mind that would seek to place the miind, not at the service of itself, but at the service of the Higher Power, the Self, that will eventually seek to be heard from the Self's postion in the carriage itself.
Most "drivers", especialy the rationalist modern ones, eschew having to listen to those messages, as they are so taken by their "knowledge" and find sources outside of their own confused hall of mirrors to be akin to "folly".
So, a modern human, with no education about the "horse", and an anti-education, an education and indoctrination against the Spirit, against Higher Power, against the Self, has no capacity to get his "carriage", anywhere at all.
He or she ends up representing the very soulless mechanicality that the modern world touts as the solution to the excesses of the sins of institiutionalized religions and their half-baked tragically flawed attempts to be the ushers of Spirit into the world.
Balls is part of masculinity.
The castrated male may be predictable and faithful as eunuchs tend to be, but real women eschew anything deeper with such a man of so little fire in the belly.
And that lack of fire and the conceit of a mind that has taken the place of the "horse" and especially the "passenger", the Self, makes for a weak and ignoble representative of humanity's masculine pole.
Gee, I get the idea here that some posters should begin the "aerobics" of decorum and then go get the cure for that other disease as well.
Roy __________________
"Well, if politicians, artists and religious leaders aren't the vainest of all as I thought you had said, Gurdjieff, then who are the vainest creatures around?"
"Angels and devils!" G replied.
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"The force and degree of a man's inner benevolence evokes in others a proportionate degree of ill-will" - Gurdjieff
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." — George Orwell
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