Essence and Existence
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Through the mechanism of Mind and Will, a Flux is created between the
Essential and the Existential that Enhances Both of the Above.
The merely religious perspective postulates free will - then uses the
concept to enslave. The free will of the religious person is the will
to obey and the will to place a code of a dogma at the top of the
usurped essentiality and usurped mind. The lack of awareness of social
dynamics and the forces behind them makes man unable to see what is
coming and makes him aggressively perpetuate the lie of his social
upbringing while claiming that Fallacious Activity to Constitute free
will and personal responsibility. The notion of personal responsibility
claimed by such societies, being not based in knowledge and being
aggressively hostile to understanding of knowledge and insight into
social and psychological dynamics shaping societies, is fundamentally
irresponsible and leads to all manner of uninformed action shaped by
the lie that is the social commonsense. Claiming to represent Reality,
Sanity, Responsibility and all the other things that it is Not, the
mindset of one or another social setting is shoved down the throats of
people, and people are defined in reference to it and its interests. A
False Identification between Reality and a Context-Shroud is created,
making impossible for people the knowledge of Actual Reality and
Determined Blindness to Reality Within. A mind that rightly refuses to
identify with the Context-Shroud is attacked from all sides, destroying
all the potential sources of Vitality, Creativity and Innovation and
leading Society into Stagnancy. Deified, the society becomes God and
appropriates greater power than is claimed by the Government. An
Unofficial Authority, being Unchecked, Unaccountable and Unbalanced,
usurps power organs from Official Authority and, lacking Accountability
that comes with being Checked and Balanced and subject to Media
Scrutiny, becomes Totalitarian. Minds, wills, feelings, goals,
personalities and convictions are shaped into embodiments of the
interest of social obstruction and then perpetuate its codes and
supposed in the world while thinking themselves to be free. In the
process the checks and balances upon the social obstruction that come
from the intellectual perspective and artistic perspective are broken,
and thus there is no reason for it to strive to produce habitable
lifestyle or quality cultural goods. The ghetto, the gated gommunity,
and other abominations appropriate for themselves the claims of
"Reality", "Everyone," "normal people" and all other things that they
are not - and that, by claiming to be, commit unbelievable acts of
collective hubris: Collective Hubris of claiming to speak for the whole
of humanity while themselves being merely embodiments of one or another
fallacy; Collective Hubris that comes from the Community being Deified
and thus given the Power that it does not Deserve - the Power that it
uses to break people into the service of its Short-Sighted and
Uninformed Aims. Nothing of Value gets created in these societies,
while things of Potential Greatness are seen as Threat. The swinish
interest of the Herd holds humanity by its Throat and leads to
Degeneracy. The intellectual and artistic quality of mankind is
degraded, and human existence turns into the status of animal herd. The
situation goes further and further downwards, and virtual
totalitarianism is created. Not even the Communists could come up with
a more profound context-con.
The merely existential perspective fails to see the difference between
people. Not only that, but it fails to see the Essential in people and
thus fails to draw on its Power. It leads to another form of fascism: a
Relativism known as Political Correctness, that cannot allow for there
to be anything Absolute. Absolutes of Passion, Beauty, Excellence and
all else that is Great are Assaulted. THe mind is turned to Oppressive
Cynicism that seeks to Deconstruct everything which it regards
logically invalid, without bothering to find out the Logic by which it
Actually Runs. The imposed lie of intellectual validity - validity held
in reference to one or another Fallacious Psychology or Fallacious
Intellectuality - becomes the check imposed on all Thoughts and
Feelings, resulting in Evisceration of Human Beingness and Destruction
of All that Is Good in Him. Anything for which the mindset does not
see a use, or whose inner workings it does not understand, is attacked
and devalued. The mind is turned away from curiosity, inspiration, joy,
love and beauty, and toward expungement of the preceding. All things
are seen in reference to the Misconstrued Concept of what is
Intelligent, which holds no Value for anything that it does not Know
and is as such Stupidity masquerading as Intelligence. Intelligence
becomes a Club - a club of Abrasive Bullies who have Expunged from
themselves all that is Beautiful and are Neurotoxic to the World.
That's not intelligent, that's not life-supporting, and for as long as
the Western philosophy has that attitude the anti-intellectual attitude
will continue, while giving the Mind a Bad Name and allowing for All
Manner of Fundamentalism.
For there to be a Positive Consummation it becomes Necessary to
recognize Man's Dual Nature as both the Shaped and the Shaper. And as
both operate within a Dual Synergistic Synthesis, it becomes possible
for Becoming and Being to work Together and Achieve Ongoing
Transcendence and Consummation of Man as a being who is both Essential
and Existential and as such possesses both the Kernel of Good and the
Means to Bring It Into Existence. Life is embraced; so is the Soul. The
Riches of the Soul become Available to Enrich the Existence of Man and
Existence of Life, as well as Man's Intellectual, Artistic,
Technological, Political and Business Creations. In Integrative
Synthesis between the Essential and the Existential, with the Being and
the Becoming feeding into each Other while challenging the wrong in
each other, in Synergy within the Framework of Checks and Balances, it
is possible to eliminate the Obnoxious Features of Both Existentialism
and Religion, while giving Man a path into Unfoldment - and Mankind a
path into a Civilization that makes the most of Humanity and makes the
most of Man.
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Ilya Shambat.