http://michaelgr.com/2008/05/08/ancient-wisdom-is-actually-early-draft/ Stay Curious. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:35:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 http://michaelgr.com/2008/05/08/ancient-wisdom-is-actually-early-draft/#comment-2231 Ancient Wisdom « The Zen Stoic Fri, 09 May 2008 00:20:01 +0000 http://michaelgr.wordpress.com/?p=268#comment-2231 [...] May 8, 2008 — Evan Jensen I just read a fascinating article, about how ancient knowledge is, strictly speaking, younger than modern thought.  Somewhere in the [...] [...] May 8, 2008 — Evan Jensen I just read a fascinating article, about how ancient knowledge is, strictly speaking, younger than modern thought.  Somewhere in the [...]

]]> http://michaelgr.com/2008/05/08/ancient-wisdom-is-actually-early-draft/#comment-2230 jalingo Thu, 08 May 2008 21:42:00 +0000 http://michaelgr.wordpress.com/?p=268#comment-2230 I enjoyed reading your article about Ancient Wisdom. It's unfortunate that most people are stuck in the mindset or paradigm of thinking that is based on facts and world views from a few hundred years ago or more. My favorite is the view of the universe as mechanistic or a "machine" of interlocking parts that work together. Holding this view implies solidity and does not take into account invisible forces and unknown principles - eg. Dark Matter, faster-than-light travel, spooky action at a distance and all that wacky thinking in physics. The world is really a much stranger and infinitely amazing place than the common person realizes. People also don't realize how much their minds filter and sort information and bias their view - what you think your thinking is not really what was taken in sometimes. If your mind is tricked my optical illusions (sensory data) then it is probably also fooled my thought patterns also. BTW, there are also audio illusions - google that. Summary: You really have to learn how thought works to view "reality". You must constantly police yourself. I enjoyed reading your article about Ancient Wisdom. It’s unfortunate that most people are stuck in the mindset or paradigm of thinking that is based on facts and world views from a few hundred years ago or more. My favorite is the view of the universe as mechanistic or a “machine” of interlocking parts that work together. Holding this view implies solidity and does not take into account invisible forces and unknown principles - eg. Dark Matter, faster-than-light travel, spooky action at a distance and all that wacky thinking in physics. The world is really a much stranger and infinitely amazing place than the common person realizes. People also don’t realize how much their minds filter and sort information and bias their view - what you think your thinking is not really what was taken in sometimes. If your mind is tricked my optical illusions (sensory data) then it is probably also fooled my thought patterns also. BTW, there are also audio illusions - google that. Summary: You really have to learn how thought works to view “reality”. You must constantly police yourself.

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