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Evil can manifest on any societal level. The greater the scope of the psychopath's influence, the greater harm done. Thus any group of humans can be infected or "ponerized" by their influence. From families, clubs, churches, businesses, and corporations, to entire nations. The most extreme form of such macro-social evil is called "pathocracy."
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Well done Luc. Your essay needs no explanation or justification. It speaks for itself.
Following the precept "know thyself" requires understanding the doctrine of "no other." What other is there to serve? What can be taken from Whole cannot diminish Whole. There is no other. "Tat tvam asi."
Consider the ten Zen oxherding pictures (abbreviated):
1. search
2. discover clues that the search is bearing fruit
3. perceive that which is sought
4. capture and...
5. master that which is sought
6. utilize it
7. transcend the bull as other
8. transcend self as other
9. recognize no-other as source
10. abide as no-other - this picture shows the Master "entering the marketplace with helping hands"
Once the tenth is reached, then no problem... That's because, by following the first nine we are able to... However, I don't think it's a linear process. More trial and error. Sometimes we get it right, mostly we don't, and my experience is that the mostly is due to overemphasizing the material, which is, or course, natural in this age. In the mystical pursuits, it's kinda the opposite, where people get infatuated with transcendent states and ignore everything else. I have a close friend like that: "Too much space," per Guruji, which is unbalanced absorption in Anandamaya Kosha, the bliss body - not good. I think that's the wisdom in authentic critiques of gnosticism and buddhism - they are misunderstood to be about getting out as opposed to being optimally in.
This is an important subject, the material world that we live in. Regarding Luc’s view that “knowing one’s self” is not enough, he quotes Goethe, “ we urgently need to look into the mirror that other people hold up to us ”. What does it mean? Luc suggests there is discernment involved, that you select those who are beneficial to your development. In Gurdjieff’s system, all people we interact with are a mirror to seeing oneself. Why? Because all people we interact with evoke some reaction in our self. The reaction of anger or irritation or disgust or admiration or inspiration all reveal our inner being. Therefore by selecting only those people who are “like us” we eliminate seeing other parts of ourselves. On many occasions, I said, “I never get angry”, but when a person cut me off on the road one time I experienced road rage.
Regarding impressions and the human being as an antenna. We all eat food including “junk” food. We have an idea of what that means, that junk food is not beneficial, but we eat it. We rarely think of music, nature, art, reading, sports viewing, movies, social media as food for our emotional and intellectual life. What is junk food in this regard? What “food” feeds higher parts of ourselves? How would you know?
I am sure we all remember “I am a material girl living in a material world” by Madonna. Catchy tune.
When Gurdjieff talked of self-deception, he was talking about each person’s individual narrative that they have built up over time to explain their life and behavior. They wear it like a mask. This is what Gurdjieff called false personality. If the image of this “false person” was threatened by someone they would react with strong emotions like fear or anger, which would act as a “buffer” to prevent this image from being revealed to themselves. Thus the driving force of this self-image-protection is fear; the fear that you do not exist.
Nice, short article, made some sense.
I am rather amazed how little attention other animals (not human) give to technology and the constant 'upgrade' and 'buzz' and 'impact' technology brings to 'life'.
Surely, they are stupid?
For they don't seem to get 'jazzed' by it. They don't automatically 'buy into it', so to speak. You kinda have to force them to pay attention to and to heed this greatest 'gift of the gods'. You really have to threaten them with it, almost. Ever noticed?
I wonder what this implies.
Yes, I do.
ned,
out
How many 'ages of man' have there been already? How many more to come?
There are many old cultures around the world that can answer that but because they don't fit in with our damnable society, we think them too stupid to have anything important to say.
We are the stupid one. Stupid in our belief that we are the pinnacle of life.