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Michael Holloway's avatar

Very good composition.

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F.J. Mast's avatar

Hierachy is based on the illusion of division in separated parts, basically the subject called I by the I itself AND the object THAT, which the subject WANTS to know………. Which obviously is just a trick ”played by the mind”.

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Gnuneo's avatar

The abusive western cult known as 'psychiatry' regards such Buddhist insights as 'Unified field' as a mental aberration to be cured by one of their toxic pills. Ofc, they probably also have a toxic pill for the opposite, too.

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F.J. Mast's avatar

No pill solves the inherent problem of the mind’s knowledge system, I.E, the contradiction. Nor does for example meditation. .. …. ……..

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Niall McLaren's avatar

Important point. The physical systems by which the brain stores its knowledge and computes its decisions is far, far removed from the gross level of slopping drugs into the blood stream and expecting they will hit just that informational system and no other. It's absurd but that's the result of psychiatry going down the biological path.

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F.J. Mast's avatar

It’s the so called scientific path-way, the illusion that knowledge(imagination) can tell/inform you/the subject I what the object/body is. You could say knowledge is an artificial imitation of the body or whatever the object imagined to be. The image/knowledge looks like the “real” thing, but it never ever is the same. OR, the body and mind are separated according to the mind’s I. IN fact the image is a “dream”/an ilusion, just as the dreamer or knower of the dream “who” says i am dreaming or hallucinating. To know yourself is absolute impossible, unless the I separates itself in an subject I and an object the I WANTS to know by turning/changing/shapeshifting itself in an object/thing/image. That’s Why Socrates, not Plato!, says: “(try to) know yourself by yourself(so not with the help of an other I,scientist,friend, psychologist/psychiatrist, etc) untill it suddenly dawns as a schock, or “flash of light out of nowhere”, it is even impossible to know yourself….. …. …… oké, if somebody thinks/believes assumes he can, no problem, good luck😉

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Gnuneo's avatar

Very well written, and your rightful passion shines through. I would have only suggested that you end the essay with a repeat of the 'Paradox of hierarchy' as summary: "The reality is that humans like to dominate each other, they like to set up dominance hierarchies just because it feels good, but… and it is a very big but, at the same time, humans also don’t like to be dominated.", for the final thought for readers to think about.

I'll be reposting the link for others to read anyhoo, because far too few Westerners ever even ponder for a second the POV of their historic (and current) victims. Especially the fash who ever whine about "My grunts" as though they cause the problems "Just because they are bad"; and not because their home nations have been destroyed by deliberate Western wars and they don't fancy being impoverished or starving to death.

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Niall McLaren's avatar

Thanks for that, good suggestion. Cheers,

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F.J. Mast's avatar

Wanting to dominate vs not wanting to be dominated is a “catch 22” both parts/parties can not escape. Eliminating(killing) the other simply does not solve the problem, obviously. To know how, is a non-starter as the contra-diction is the essence of the mind’s knowledge system. Consciously or unconsciously, every scientists uses LOGIC, the manual with the rules how to create knowledge, or, the condition that knowledge must meet, which in essence is that may Not contain a contradiction…………… A “problem” as basically knowledge consists of two each other contra-dicting parts. For example: an A and a B(on the first page of the manual), or, a One and a Zero, 1 and 0, Yes and No, On and Off, Good and Bad, etc, etc. All the same different parts/quanta/bits/pieces/dots, which are connected/integrated by thinking. What a part/quantum alone is NO ONE KNOWS 🤓🤔. Just ask a quantum physicist😄

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