Is there still hope? Of course, there’s always hope, but only to the degree we realize wisdom is the self experiencing of the real.
The less a country or civilization takes wisdom seriously, is the more it will inevitably degenerate into the chaos and misery of contemporary “civilization”. Conversely, the more wisdom IS taken seriously, is the more we will stop picking our nose about symptoms (e.g., “politics”) and catalyze that salvation energy and intelligence that comes ONLY from dealing with ultimate causes.
May we conclude with an example of how wisdom turns consensus reality on its head? “Awakening” (that exquisite Hindu/Buddhist image) isn’t that the dreamer (i.e., all those personal pronouns of “you’s”, “I’s”, “me’s”, etc.) doesn’t finally wake up from the dream. Rather, awakening is that something MORE REAL than the dreamer wakes up from the dreamer . . .
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W. Christopher Epler (Bill)
<http://theliberationofrealism.blogspot.com/>
Ps. If you care to read it, here’s a short piece called the “Everything Game” which embellishes the above:
The Everything Game
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