How can you process all of the different cultures?

[onacloudynight]

How can the mind assimilate this much information? I feel like I'm going to explode.

[Tyler Robinson]

 

• One at a time 
• Take the good, leave the bad
• Be open minded 
• Use critical thinking 
• Integrate some of it in your life 

[Oeaohoo]

On 04/12/2022 at 2:40 AM, onacloudynight said:

How can the mind assimilate this much information? I feel like I'm going to explode.

There are underlying unities which transcend particular differences. For example, most cultures throughout history have organised themselves into similar hierarchies: Dumézil wrote about this in an academic setting and called it the “trifunctional hypothesis”. Until recently, initiation was a universal cultural practice. Most cultures have a ruling class and a monarchy, which often survives even through decadent democratic phases, and organise life in terms of rites and ritualised customs. To my knowledge, René Guénon did the best job of restating this underlying unity for modern times: the key insight here is that exoteric diversity is grounded in esoteric unity.

On the other hand, have you noticed how so many aspects of globalised society are an inversion of this underlying unity in the name of an externalised uniformity? Rather than a liturgical calendar we have “Black History Month” and “International Women’s Day”, rather than Mass or Communion we have the sports match, rather than ritualised anti-structure we have “It’s Friday! Party time!” and clubbing… These are surely a grand testament to the great strides made by “mankind” (itself a uniform and homogenising term) in recent times! There is no longer an underlying unity of organic cultures, only a sterile uniformity enforced by global bureaucracy.

Having said all of that, the tremendous variety of human cultures is bound to be slightly overwhelming… Maybe it is supposed to be! There is a talk somewhere by OSHO in which he talks about taking the “Path of Confusion”: reading thousands of books, he drowned himself in knowledge until reaching a point of total confusion and a radical state of not-knowing, which served as a kind of kenosis or “self-emptying” for the reception of metaphysical truth. For a while now I have been fascinated by the Egyptian God Seth, who was the God of Confusion. I think that practitioners of his cult would have practised a similar self-emptying confusion…

[Mohammad]

@Oeaohoo Interesting information, thanks man!

 

On 12/4/2022 at 6:10 AM, onacloudynight said:

How can the mind assimilate this much information? I feel like I'm going to explode.

Indeed more knowledge slowly increases confusion, kind of a paradox, right?

[halfknots]

You don't, it just happens