Thursday, December 6, 2012

So you're saying it's genetic...


4 comments:

  1. The Work teaches that Centres are born blank, like smooth wax - which is then imprinted with Impressions coming in from Life. The great exception is of course the Instinctual Centre, which is fully developed at birth - otherwise - breathing, circulation, digestion, etc.., would have to be learned. The Instinctual Centre attends to the inner work of the organism, and is itself the representation in man of the organic life of our own Cosmos - the Anthropocosmos. The cleverness, elegance, and wisdom of this Centre is beyond all comprehension. It is, for example, an infinitely better chemist than any human chemist who has ever lived. Without the starting point of the Instinctual Centre, man could not exist on the earth. The other centres, Intellectual, Emotional, Moving, Sexual, are not developed at birth. The higher Centres, representing our contact with the Cosmos above the Anthropocosmos, are always working in man, but we do not have the material within us for contact with these Centres.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Very good stuff my man. It's the difference between taste, as an intellectual exercise, and raw emotion response.

      I read (and assigned to a class) a book recently, "Let's Talk About Taste." It's arguably about a music critic and Celine Dion, but the actual topic is the difference between emotional response and social capital.

      Basically, art historically was religious and meant to evoke a sincere, positive emotional response. But art, and social power, has now flipped the past several centuries to where overly emotional content (at least 'postive' emotional content) is now considered beneath artistic merit. Its schmaltz.

      So, maybe we can't contact these centres, or maybe fervent religious belief (not to be confused with The Church) is a legitimate mehtodology for feeling a true connection with our instinctual centre, as you put it.

      Delete
  2. Basically, art historically was religious and meant to evoke a sincere, positive emotional response.

    Not only that, there were formal canons of form which encapsulated, preserved and transmitted an underlying body of information and practice not necessarily available to the untrained eye.

    That the artist was conveying all of this initiatory cultural information structure aesthetically, speaks to the depth and richness of culture undergirding the art to which you refer.

    So, maybe we can't contact these centres, or maybe fervent religious belief (not to be confused with The Church) is a legitimate mehtodology for feeling a true connection with our instinctual centre, as you put it.

    I'll unpack this business of connecting with the instinctual centre a little more later. What I was specifically referring to above, was contacting yet higher centres. Once the business of connecting with the instinctual centre is briefly illuminated, it should put into perspective the challenge involved with going still deeper into the ground of consciousness.

    ReplyDelete