Leo's Blog: Infinite Insights
Miscellaneous bits of wisdom and resources on personal development, life purpose, philosophy, epistemology, nonduality, psychedelics, etc. Published randomly throughout the week.
- penetrating mental vision or discernment.
- the sudden act of grasping the inner nature or truth of a situation.
- a deep understanding of a person or thing.
Insights here are meant to be quick and half-baked. Consider these food for thought.
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This is a great example of the pre-rational stage of cognitive development. This is how all tribal people reason. This is a good example of how the pre-rational mind corrupts spirituality and turns it into self-deception. This is why you should never trust shamans. Shamans do not have the epistemic understanding necessary to not corrupt spirituality.
The pre-rational mind believes that a ghost dance can reverse the demise of the Native American peoples.
"Wovoka, a Paiute mystic started the Ghost Dance movement. He preached that the Ghost Dance would bring the old world back. The dead would come alive, the buffalo would return, and all whites would be removed from the plains. In order to make the event happen, the Native American warriors should dance the Ghost Dance. To the poor, defeated, and disappointed people, most living on reservations, the new religion gave them hope. It was also thought that the Ghost Dance shirts would protect the wearer from white man's bullets. In November of 1890 the US government banned the Ghost Dance on the Sioux reservations."
Again, notice how the spiritual novice conflates his survival with spirituality.
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This is a good insight about creativity and art.
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But I specifically want to connect this with science and academia. To be truly intelligent, scientists and academics need to allow their minds to be messy, which they are not allowing. Modern science and academia is so anti-creative that of course they are stuck. The rampant rationalism of academia constipates the mind, lowering its natural intelligence. This is the godlessness of academia.
A messy mind is more intelligent than a buttoned-up one. Mental fluidity IS intelligence. The most intelligent mind is so fluid that it can flow around anything.
In art, you are allowed to make bad art, it's no big deal. But in science and academia you are not allowed to be imaginative. As soon as do, your colleagues will eat you alive and excommunicate you like the witch that you are. But the witch's mind is more intelligent than the scientist's.
