'Rational Mind' back into Intuition
Human made servant back into natural gift




end of metaphysical paradigm in rational variant
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something somewhere went terribly wrong paradigm
logical soul, mind, paradigm of ratio in the west
Independent 'Mind' is busted
'Thinking' is optimal use of sense-memory. I think therefore I am is simular to the non-sense statement I simulate life therefore I live. Man is not able of 'creation', only of making trials of new ways, and of using memory for best possible evaluation.
Filtering 'reality' by 'believing' or 'thinking' were trials that resulted in shallow religious or rational realities. At some time you realize in a flash that your 'believing' or 'thinking' is only repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

Evolution proceeds by trial, errors and selection. An error is treating the use of repetition (logic) as 'understanding' that can be handled by 'politics' in 'democracy'.

'Rational' glasses produce a flimsy 'rational' subreality with humans as 'rational animals' , in some aspects brilliant, but also 'rational' worlds can end in egoism, individualism, paranoia, words without action. Logic only filters sense experience, there is no wisdom in words. But 'words' can result in endless analizing used to defend dominant positions. The brutal egoism behind capitalism can be recognized in a minute, but instead everyday shares are mystically analized to 1 tenth of a dollar. Using rational spectacles means that your reality becomes a flimsy 'rational' conflict that needs irrelevant 'political' judgements. 'Rational spectacles' filter most of reality, like tuning behavior with only a black & white pic of the tip of an iceberg.

The Godfather of the Western World, ancient Macedononian Greek thinker Aristotle (Arastu) grew up on the huge slavefarm 'House of Macedon'. For Aristotle human life was parasitism, Masters as owners/exploiters of human slaves, not as leaders in human herds. Aristotle designed a god-factor 'anima' to make sense of his experience (big factor = Master; small factor = slave). You might see the god-factor 'anima' as 'hunger for dominance'. Some 'Masters' (very dominant) served by chattel slaves (anima-ls born for a life in slavery because of insufficient dominance) .

Aristotle's master Alexander the Great (halfgod, HUGE dominance) eliminated anyone who questioned his superiority. Alexander the Cursed spread Aristotelianism (world of godly design with superior/inferior humans) in the Middle East, in 12 years of blitzwar (superior exploitation using military force, halfgod punishes barbarians: robbery, rape, death, slavery). Alexander also spread use of Greek language, and that way prepaired the Middle East for later colonization by the Roman Empire that was always in need for new sources of slaves.. Middle east cultures (with exception Hinduism) did not believe in halfgods and were not familiar with chattel slavery. Persian Zoroastrianism (origin of Buddhism) even forbade slavery (inherently forbade 'playing god', disrespect of nature).
In Catholicism at the Council of Chalcedon the Roman Pope Leo I 'translated' the god-factor 'anima' in Aristotelianism into 'spirit' (as opposed to body) This they did to explain exploitation by slavery in political way as 'pagans' (not much 'spirit') in need of Masters. Through the Roman Popes as infallible leaders of The Church the 'political' dominance doctrine of Aristotle conquered Europe (feudalism, aristocracy). The Aristotelian Paradigm remained dominant until the 21st century because the 'Infallibility of The Pope' doctrine of the Catholic Church proved to very resilient to change. And in some ways showed resemblance to a dictatorship. The variant Protestantism of Catholicism didn't do much better, in puritan shape probably worse.

























The Dark Ages: 'Understanding' enters Western Europe

The ancient Roman jet set could not imagine a natural order without slaves, for them the a thinking 'mind' and a passive body was natural and the number of slaves expressed the superiority of their 'mind'. With the agressively expanding Roman Empire mind body slavery (feudalism: thinking masters and labouring slaves) entered Western Europe.
In 451AC at the Council of Chalcedon (451AC), mind-body split thinking (Catholicism) was made into law. The Western Roman Empire finally collapsed in 476ac, but Catholicism took over it's role. During the 'dark ages' (500AC–1100AC) after 'Chalcedon' Catholicism did not succeed in getting settled as leading religion in Western Europe.
The Dark Ages was a period of religious struggle. Old Testament Christians regarded this time as a period of Catholic corruption ('dark' Catholic ways). The Dark Ages was also the period of vast Muslim conquests. Muslim conquests prevailed until the time of the Crusades. The age old conflict between Christianity and Islam originates in this period, not caused by religious conflict but caused by fear.

But then eight 'crusades' against 'The Muslims' in a period of 2 ages (1095 to 1272) did the job.
When the cats are away ... the mice take power. Western Europe was severely weakened, and most of it's best leaders and most skilled fighters died outside Europe. In the resulting 'power vacuum' Catholicism succeeded in taking power away from the traditional leaders. This was accomplished in a 'dirty war', by cleverly chosing power-hungry allies in the weakened homelands. Probably this was not from the very start purposely orchestrated by Rome, but it was brilliant tactics anyway. In the following Middle Ages Catholicism was THE power in Western Europe, and cleverly consolidated this power.

In the 17th century the new religion 'science' started colliding with Catholicism. In an attempt to prevent this collision (and to save the dominance of Catholicism) the catholic-priest/scientist Descartes redefined 'anima' into 'ratio', and without realizing succeeded in saving the mind-body split AND in creating 'intellectual chaos' (lasting till today). 'Rational logic' of course took no position in slavery, only in case of more 'profit' replaced slavery with machines
From there in a few ages mind-body split thinking as 'rationalism' conquered the world. The most fanatic branches of Aristotelianism/rationalism (Lutheranism/Calvinism) were banned to The New World (America).
In WWI/WWII three Lutheran variants competed for world dominancy. Winner: US.

Rationality is brilliant use of logic, but in the end nothing more than optimal use of memory.
In the 21st century rationality bring us the amazing 'cleantech'. PART of the solution for our polluted and overcrowded earth with huge wealth gaps. But only a small part, still based on 'rationality' and 'infinite growth'.
More is needed. Change.



























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From a design = religion towards intuition
Steve Jobs: Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work. [..]Western rational thought is not an innate human characteristic; it is learned and is the great achievement of Western Civilization. [...] I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. Albert Einstein said something very simular paradigm shift 21stcentury, paradigm-change aristotle world of mathematical design


We, the human herds, are temporarily in paradigm paralysis (dreaming our own dream until disaster), but we'll refind our place in nature.
We'll rebalance intuition and ratio. We'll find new leaders and we'll survive.
Evolution allways beats 'nightmares' with a final breakthrough (paradigm shift)



























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