Spiritual Journal, 10/8/01

[novapsyche]

We can no more control Nature than we can control our own unconsciousness.

Nature and the sub-/unconscious are the same. Civilized man fights both if he fight one at all.

And so it is, that humans believe they must control, master themselves, be the master in the self/world slave/master dichotomy.

If a man were to master himself, he will, at the very same instant, enslave himself. To what does he enslave himself? His intellect, or in other words the ego.

What good is eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil if, as Jung says, "We can never finally know"? The Catch-22 is clear. There cannot be any ultimate knowledge, because all knowledges are grounded in the subjective.

Yet, we still owe much to the idea of objectivity, insofar as it can be conceived as "not-subjectivity". Adding perspectives to any previously held perspectives increases knowledge; and a broad body of knowledge about any one subject in particular adds to its own capacity for having an "objective view" about said subject.

Comments

[myelectricsheep.livejournal.com]

I like these thoughts! Especially the last paragraph. If there is such a thing as objectivity (and I think there is) it comes from letting go of narrow subjective views. Once your knowledge and experience expands to include that of every single being in all of time and space, well, then you're getting somewhere. And I might be weird, but I think that is possible. Very much so. :-)