Complete Theoretical Index - Perception Lead
Aug 2, 2018 10:13:49 GMT -5 by paulwayman
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Post by paulwayman on Aug 2, 2018 10:13:49 GMT -5
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As I was reading over PT4: Complete Theoretical Index I found this passage:
Perception by itself makes no final commitment as to what their information might mean, remaining ever receptive to the ongoing and unfinished nature of things. It therefore forms a completely different “understanding” than the rigid and linguistic comprehension provided by Judgment. Perception understand things broadly and in an interconnected fashion, rather than as ideas with definite conceptual boundaries around them. Perception is impressionistic, poetic and metaphorical; relying more on imagery and imagination to understand how reality unfolds itself. Things are understood as dynamic, interwoven and never entirely separate in form or structure. Perception thrives off of the activity of synthesizing understandings in an organic way through the accumulation of experiences and harmonizing those experiences together passively (rather than intellectually) into tapestries that are strung together in countless ways. To Perception, the obsession to control the world through Logos/Words is equivalent to a suffocation; artificially committing to one definition of a thing rather than seeing how no thing can rightly be picked out from the rest without also making it dead. The vitality and meaning of anything is seen through it’s participation and relationship to the whole, rather than for its own static quality.
It immediately brought to mind something I wrote years ago. After going back through some of my writings I found what I wrote:
A common fable of our age is that nothing is true unless it can be expressed in words. However, truth is not held prisoner to our speech or our stated propositions. This is the problem with fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious or secular: the word gives birth to life rather than life giving birth to the word. Words, if trapped and locked, languish and become stale representations of a reality already passed. Words become real, paradoxically, only if you set them free, only if you recognize their unreality. When accompanied with action, as an expression of that action, even if the act itself is internal in nature, in form, words can become potent and perhaps magical.
The description proposed by CT Theory in the Complete Theoretical Index matches, uncannily so,some of my own personal interpretations of reality. A fact I find fascinating.
Paul
As I was reading over PT4: Complete Theoretical Index I found this passage:
Perception by itself makes no final commitment as to what their information might mean, remaining ever receptive to the ongoing and unfinished nature of things. It therefore forms a completely different “understanding” than the rigid and linguistic comprehension provided by Judgment. Perception understand things broadly and in an interconnected fashion, rather than as ideas with definite conceptual boundaries around them. Perception is impressionistic, poetic and metaphorical; relying more on imagery and imagination to understand how reality unfolds itself. Things are understood as dynamic, interwoven and never entirely separate in form or structure. Perception thrives off of the activity of synthesizing understandings in an organic way through the accumulation of experiences and harmonizing those experiences together passively (rather than intellectually) into tapestries that are strung together in countless ways. To Perception, the obsession to control the world through Logos/Words is equivalent to a suffocation; artificially committing to one definition of a thing rather than seeing how no thing can rightly be picked out from the rest without also making it dead. The vitality and meaning of anything is seen through it’s participation and relationship to the whole, rather than for its own static quality.
It immediately brought to mind something I wrote years ago. After going back through some of my writings I found what I wrote:
A common fable of our age is that nothing is true unless it can be expressed in words. However, truth is not held prisoner to our speech or our stated propositions. This is the problem with fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious or secular: the word gives birth to life rather than life giving birth to the word. Words, if trapped and locked, languish and become stale representations of a reality already passed. Words become real, paradoxically, only if you set them free, only if you recognize their unreality. When accompanied with action, as an expression of that action, even if the act itself is internal in nature, in form, words can become potent and perhaps magical.
The description proposed by CT Theory in the Complete Theoretical Index matches, uncannily so,some of my own personal interpretations of reality. A fact I find fascinating.
Paul