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philosophical advancement lies in struggle: each new “great” school of
art or philosophy comes about as a reaction to the previous, now ossified
and static system. Many of these breakthroughs come as a result of
critically analyzing these axioms, as we see with Galileo. The story of
Buckminster Fuller’s life is a wonderful parable about the absurdity of
our modern practices when compared with where we could be, technologically,
spiritually, and ethically speaking. In this day and age there is
no reason for starvation except for greed and ignorance. These problems
are unresolved not because they cannot be, but because they cannot
be within our current global structure. Familial structure breaks
down around 150 members. Interest focuses again entirely on individual
interests. Tribes that grow beyond this point must schism as a point
of progress or the schism will merely occur as cultural schizophrenia.
The binding glue of compassion turns to competition. Greed and competition
are biological imperatives for primates, however so is cooperation
and nurturing. We can choose which impulses to act on.
Our current corporate, mass-media culture owes itself, in part, to an
ideology that poses itself against nature and the natural order. In the
religion of Zoroaster, Judaism, Manichaeism, Christianity, and to a
lesser extent within the works of many of the Greek philosophers you
find this ideology present, and while most people today are unaware of
Zarathustra, all of us live in a world fashioned from these models. A
world where the human dimension is held in tension against nature,
where the purpose of the human animal is seen as bringing light to the
world, changing a dark, wild world into a world of light through conscious
intention is also—as we can see in the history of Western
thought from 500 B.C. to the present age—inevitably a world governed
by the laws of rationality, with all of its blind spots. The world we exist
in experientially was formed by Newton, by Descartes, and so on.
When we deal with maps and models we will really bring more light to
this matter.
Study of the theory provided here, followed by the practice of the
ritual itself, will invariably provide initiations to your nature in accord
with these myths. However the way this initiation unfolds will be
unique in each and every one of you, as we are all inventing new
mythologies, most of which will likely remain untold and die with us.
The method that will be used to bring about this change is simple
enough in theory, it is in the practice and application that you will find
your trials and rewards. Because we create maps of our environment
that are not the same as the environment, we may analyze our maps—
our history, as I said—our symbol systems, and, through this, continually
deepen our experience of our self. I would like to eventually express
to you that symbols, religious symbols in particular, are literary
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