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Most people trap themselves in the certainty of belief. Some move beyond the certainty of belief and get trapped in nihilism. Those that move through nihilism
by orasis 10y ago
Most people trap themselves in the certainty of belief.
Some move beyond the certainty of belief and get trapped in nihilism.
Those that move through nihilism gain a perspective on meaning itself, realizing that meaning is relative and can be objectified. All of meaning and reality become a playful flux of creation. Buddhists are the most studied in this regard.
A quick and easy read on different levels of human development can be found here:
http://newpossibilitiesassociates.com/uploads/9_levels_of_increasing_embrace_update_1_07.pdf http://newpossibilitiesassociates.com/uploads/9_levels_of_in...
- hathawsh 10y agoThat is excellent reading material. Thank you!
- armitron 10y agoThis was fun, so kudos, but deeply flawed I feel. It's basically Tim Leary/Robert Anton Wilson's model dressed in psychobabble. I'd give her more credit if she at least credited/referenced them and let's also not forget that psychology is not really a science [1]. For something with far more substance, I suggest metaprogramming by John Lilly [2]. At least he had the conviction to spend more than half of his life experimenting (radically) on himself. [1] http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-fail-reproducibility-test-1.18248 http://www.nature.com/news/over-half-of-psychology-studies-f... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Metaprogramming-Human-Biocomputer-Experiments/dp/0692217894 https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Metaprogramming-Human-Bio...
- ZenoArrow 10y ago>"It's basically Tim Leary/Robert Anton Wilson's model dressed in psychobabble. I'd give her more credit if she at least credited/referenced them" Are you suggesting the two individuals you mentioned are the originators of that line of thought? Why is it important to you that these two individuals are name dropped?
- armitron 10y agoPlagiarism is not something I find easy to accept thus I do my best to counter it whenever I encounter it. Besides, mentioning the originators of certain ideas and models and guiding people to their work is surely adding a lot of substance to the discussion.
- ZenoArrow 10y agoOnly if they were the sources of inspiration. What I'm trying to suggest to you is that similar ideas to those put forward by Leary and Wilson existed before either of those two individuals were born. With that in mind, why are you convinced these two individuals are being plagarised? Can you point to any passages that reminded you of their works?
- nikki93 10y agoThis is funny/meta because the idea of ownership (almost in a way reminiscent of weak vs. strong pointers haha), I feel, originates from some semblance of ego and associated 'territorialism' which RAW touches on in eg. Prometheus Rising.
- notduncansmith 10y agoWhile there's overlap with some of the work you mentioned, I would think it most congruent with said work to be appreciative of yet another inroad to the same conclusion (as opposed to unappreciative based on cosmetic difference). Not defending the text you're talking about, but if you feel like it's "deeply flawed" could you please point out some concrete examples?
- notduncansmith 10y agoThank you very much for posting this. While I haven't made it very far in the linked text, it led me to the following two pages that gave me something that people in this thread might be looking for: - Kohlberg's stages of moral development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_of_moral_development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_o... - Some Thoughts on Kohlberg's "Stage 7" [pdf]: http://glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~garveya/Stage_7.pdf http://glasnost.itcarlow.ie/~garveya/Stage_7.pdf