Beyond Knowledge

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates

And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.
Socrates

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James

So far, no one has dared to assume that the supposed constant structure of the intellect is an illusion and that the history spread out before us contains more than one style of knowing
Oswald Spengler
Decline of the West Vol. I

I dare to claim there is more than one style of knowing.

Spengler''s is book was written in the early 1900s and since then psychology and psychiatry have arisen as popular analysis structures it seems to me that these disciplines focus on an emotional source of thought and mind style creation. Although I have no doubt that emotional events have an effect on the content of one's consciousness I call into serious question that this is the root of the formation of the mind. Everyone's style of mind is at the very least slightly different because of each individual's unique position in space and time. Every individual senses different events, has different experiences, then feels, then images (thinks), then acts. What it is that is common to all these what is the root of all these supposedly different stages of perception? Attention.

Knowledge is a set of arbitrarily bounded abstractions, fragments of what is. Every belief structure, idea set, fantasy, and personal memory is arbitrarily bounded and fragmentary abstractions of what is real; the Unified Field, everything, All That Is. Every culture, religion, and individual breaks its sense of the world up differently, in to different sets of "objects" or "ideas." People often argue until they realize they were using different words to express the same idea. In mass cultures do this with different ideas summed up to create a picture of the whole universe. Every culture and individual has unique problems which to solve, therefore creating their own system of understanding, a logic system, an attempt to rationalize sensory input. This seems a reasonable use of ones attention.

For example, one person may look at a house and see the entire structure as one thing, a house. Another person may cognize the house as a set of separate objects; windows, doors, bricks, beams, shingles, etc. Another set may by glass, stone, wood, concrete, copper, granite etc. Another my see the different colors. All these sets break up the whole into different ideas or to the observer, knowledge units. On a much greater scale each person, group, nation, and culture breaks up the Whole into many different sets of knowledge units.

In addition every person and culture build up memories, beliefs, fantasies, and guesses in their mind, what I call postulate knowledge. These we think as separate "things" or sets of "things."

Logic is a process of working on a set of fragmented factual or postulate knowledge. Word Logic is only a step on the ladder of growth. Organic logic cannot be abstractly postulated. Organic logic is the observation of natural order. Nature to us is a visual language to be "read" by organs receptive to reflected electromagnetic waves. This language is NOT broken down into word fragments. It is communicated as one Unified Field. The Unified Field is too huge to know. Godel''s Incompleteness theorem proved that any system of logic has limitations and there will always be paradoxes or problems which will never be known, proven, resolved. Next Alan Turing comes along and proves that not only will there be problems that are unsolvable, we can never know which problems will be solvable and which will not. So at some point, whether you like it or not, you must realize that your knowledge cannot be complete. At some point an action is required, a movement Beyond Knowledge.

Only by realizing knowledge is not the end, but the beginning can you begin to be free. What is freedom anyway? Freedom is the unaltered expression of one''s natural synthesis with the natural order. Freedom is tremendous creative energy. Freedom is joy. Freedom is the absence of fear and of habit, of desire for pleasure and disappointment of expectation. Freedom is clear perception of Beauty.

No idea, no fact, no belief, can solve any problem. Even in practical matters its the skill of action that finally decides the issue. There is no magic incantation to provoke inner peace. Inner peace is an action not a state. Many ideas are useful tools but without practical action there is no manifestation. Democracy is a good idea but it takes the active participation of individuals to manifest it physically. Action is by its very nature a synthesis with the environment. The Unified Field. To act you must have a incoming flow of energy or to put it more accurately your matrix must surf on and still in the Field.

Any movement away from what is is a dissipation of energy. Attention to illusory images is an action away from what is. Attention to synthesense is a movement in what is. McLuhan''s mediums are the order not the content. Content is by its nature fragmented. Medium's are action. Our body, being natural technology, is by its very nature action. Irregardless of what we do we all interface, blended, with environment similarly.

This synthesis, this interface has a natural consequence which might be described as perpetuating novelty. I think it may be that when we focus attention onto thoughts (illusory fragments of the Unified Fields, or artificially bounded abstractions) we are diverting some of the energy which flows through us. The Earth produces a vast interconnected organic matrix of bio-electric fields modulating in frequency and amplitude (Read Secret Life of Plants). Perhaps Chi is a fitting word for this energy. We create images with our Sense of the world and our Chi is diverted. When these images are creative then our action is creative. When the flows of Now images are clogged with stored images (memories), some being emotive yet suppressed our resulting actions are be confounded, neutralized, dissipated. Chi flows scattered in many directions. It is possible that the unconscious emotive diversions of Chi may inflict energy imbalance in parts of the body and over time the symptom of illness develops. An awareness of the consciousness of the unconscious image habituation leads to action breaking the cycle and relieving the dis-ease.

Shamans have been active healing image sickness for their tribes and peoples for as far back of our limited and warped historical knowledge can be recalled. Now it is possible for anyone to become a healer, each in his own way for themselves, family, friends, tribe, culture, nation-world. One can only heal if one sees the root of the dis-ease.
So see into yourself and see out to yourself. A flowing stream of synthesensactia learning-as-growing.

A mind grows that uses knowledge as a tool and the mind is the ever flowing,growing, spontaneous river of uncategorized energy which pulses along universal neural pathways.

Saying to oneself "I don''t know" is the opening the door. "I don''t know" engages your synthesense.
Synthesense occurs before knowledge, creates knowledge, destroys knowledge, and frames snapshot perspectives to use as memory, image, and idea tools. Synthesense is not looking for something, it is just looking, sensing the entire field.

People who primarily identify with knowledge, beliefs, images, ideas are identifying with what is NOT SELF. Throughout the day we constantly shift through mental masks, facades, a kaleidoscope of personality. With unseen habituation and competition layered imagery design our conscious experience. Yet spontaneously rays of insight flutter sporadically. What is required is attention to attention of consciousness. An action made of non-action of dissipative movements.

After attending for some time something curious develops. Awareness of the feedback loop between patterns of consciousness and emotions. Consciousness is awareness fragmented into its content. What was once unconscious become tools.

You are the Attending, the Sense, you are the action. You are not your idea of yourself. You are not somebody else''s idea. You are that you are.

Don''t fear that you are alone in you mind. Fear is the mindkiller. No one will "think" like you. You are original. Project this original vision out!!!! Everybody has heard about the same old dead knowledge that you heard about. Give them your now. The very sensing is natural action, the knowledge and ideas attended to, drawn forward into consciousness automatically, unforced. Being attentive presently unifies you with all that is around you, your sensitivity is matched by the environment. When a mutual sensitivity feedback loop grows then there is nothing to prevent the natural energy flow and union. Emotion is unblocked and the great surge of universal energy is felt. Once resistance (unconsciousness) ceases to the unified flow of existence around you, sense is action because you naturally do what is naturally right for that environment and situation. Just see and you will speak, act.

The mind that has put its house in order, has understood the nature of knowledge. Such a mind is completely silent. And that silence has no cause. You see, "silence" can be illusory; it can be put together by a thought that is determined to be silent. You have the silence between the two whistles of a train, the silence between two notes, between two noises, between two sounds, between two thoughts - but that kind of silence is still within the realm of cognition. But when the mind is completely silent, it isn't even aware that it is silent. If it were, it would merely be playing tricks. The mind that has put its house in order is silent. That silence has no cause and, therefore, has no end. Only that which has a cause can end. That silence - which has no ending - is absolutely necessary, because it is only in that silence that there is no movement of thought. It is only in that silence that that which is sacred, that which is nameless, and that which is not measurable by thought, is. And that which is, is the most sacred. That is meditation.
J. Krishnamurti