shaman sun
07-29-2006, 07:54 PM
Is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
It is self-evident to the human experience that we develop through stages of life. We may not label the stages, we may not notice them, but nevertheless there is growth. When we are young, we do not understand particular time-space aspects. As our mind develops, we begin to understand that which made no sense before. A question worth asking is: We have physiological and psychological development, does that mean there is also a development of the spiritual? If the sky is the limit, is it the sky of reason? Or is there an infinite cosmos beyond?
It would make sense to me that there is post-rational as well as rational and pre-rational, just as it would make sense to me that to a child the world is the world as they see it, as to a teenager the world is their world as they see it, as to adult, etc. Each stage of development is within a particular paradigm, holding something that is relatively true, or perhaps universally true, but not seeing the entire picture. The proceeding stages gain a more and more transpersonal, worldly understanding. So, would it be possible that "Reason" has its limitations, and must die to itself in order continue the process of maturity in a human being? Must the mind of reason give way to the mind of spirit?
Even if this were to be the case, I'm not saying that the mind abandons reason, merely transcends its limitations, harnessing its potentials simultaneously.
It is self-evident to the human experience that we develop through stages of life. We may not label the stages, we may not notice them, but nevertheless there is growth. When we are young, we do not understand particular time-space aspects. As our mind develops, we begin to understand that which made no sense before. A question worth asking is: We have physiological and psychological development, does that mean there is also a development of the spiritual? If the sky is the limit, is it the sky of reason? Or is there an infinite cosmos beyond?
It would make sense to me that there is post-rational as well as rational and pre-rational, just as it would make sense to me that to a child the world is the world as they see it, as to a teenager the world is their world as they see it, as to adult, etc. Each stage of development is within a particular paradigm, holding something that is relatively true, or perhaps universally true, but not seeing the entire picture. The proceeding stages gain a more and more transpersonal, worldly understanding. So, would it be possible that "Reason" has its limitations, and must die to itself in order continue the process of maturity in a human being? Must the mind of reason give way to the mind of spirit?
Even if this were to be the case, I'm not saying that the mind abandons reason, merely transcends its limitations, harnessing its potentials simultaneously.