Re: how "spiritual paths" are judged...
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10/08/2017, 21:43:54
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...how entire 'spiritual paths' and philosophies are judged by their few highly visible and vocal proponents Vs. their minions of quiet, anonymous practitioners

Ø       Well everything is pre-judged or pigeon-holed, post-judged in our functioning thought processes and beliefs and all apperception, isn't it.  Just about everything that comes to perception...everything, is judged in some manner of simplification or apprehension mapping to comprehension. 

Ø     As for instance the modern philosopher Douglas Hofstadter as I've been catching up on lately, opines a great deal about how the basic structure of our thought (maybe the neurological basics of thought) is in the mechanism of an engine that constantly and everywhere puts everything into categories (assigning and structuring any range of valid, or in slightest valid, or even utterly randomest of analogies into categories of common meaning).  Thus in our conception and thought is everywhere this glomping of ranges of perceived aspects into one label or thought image/category...categories that often so blindingly overarch a collection of more subtle meanings, ideas and experiences -- resulting so as to blindingly simplify or submerge a panoply of what IS into handy labels or judgments each of which is in effect knee-jerk of utterly simplified recognition. 

Ø     However, this (sort of glomping) in many ways may act as one of the finest mechanism of thought, extremely useful to all practical purposes of everyday communication and comprehension and assessment, judgment -- maybe even the epitome of human brain's more superlative functioning.  

      [An example in the vast ranges of mental levels where goes this glomping mechanism of thought:

     Here I'm thoroughly "glomping" D.Hofstadter's ideas into a few sentences of descriptive judgment, word images, simplifying and assessing, applying in a very facile manner something he has spent decades thinking about - in order to communicate my understanding or idea of it.]







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