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The "news" offers nothing new anymore except the latest body count of who-got-murdered-by-whom since yesterday's body count was refigured to include the murders that went on in the world where it was still dark during the last report.
The reason the news is not new anymore is due to the lack of originality. Humans die for the same old sad reasons they've always died, and the shocked witnesses (or lack thereof) report the deaths using the same language as the witnesses did the day before and the day before that.
Why do all these people think the crimes that happen in their neighborhood are any more criminal than what they watched on TV last night? It seems like the only real difference is that it went on in some other neighborhood as the world turns wobbling away from the Sun.
It took a long period of time for me to mentally configure an abstract zodiac in my mind's eye via speech in order to have it there for my own use without printed or digital images to calculate from.
At best, my abstract construction of a astrological zodiac was haphazardly inculcated and not done according to some precise astrological rules to guide me through the process. I sort of made it up as I went along. Why would I not? Nobody knows what I got in the more of me than they can "see", even if I tell them to their face.
"It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to.
You would cry too if it happened to you..."
~ Sung by Lesley Gore
In my opinion, astrology is a systematic approach to remembering abstract constructs. It's a system of associative "pegs" a person can "hang" their version of a specific event upon. It's not about some philosophical or scientific irrefutable truth, but organizes the more of me according to the five senses of perception.
This understanding of how astrology operates as a memory system wasn't derived from my decades long study of astrology itself, but from my study of another system created by Dr. Milton Erickson called Ethical Hypnosis, which was then adapted to another system called Neurolinguistic Programming by Richard Bandler and friends.
The part of Ethical Hypnosis and NLP that completed the circle for me about memory systems was how they pointed out that people's memories are stored in their auras according to their favorite sensory modality. I had not previously considered that I might have a favorite way of perceiving and storing memories of the ongoing events of the world around me.
NLP provides a framework for figuring out how this might be recognized by myself and others. We betray ourselves by our everyday speech. We say things like, "I see what you mean." (visual) or "I hear what you're saying." (auditory) or "I smell a rat." (smell and taste) or "That hurts my feelings" (kinesthetic).
Hypnosis can provide a portal for realizing that humans actually remember everything that happens around them for very long periods of time, but not all of it is retained consciously except perhaps for one's favorite sensory modality, and not even that for long.
An insightful, thoroughly trained NLP practitioner can elicit the unconscious data from the other senses as well as from the favored sense. That's how they perform miracles. They help people to re-me the missing parts so that the subject gets "the rest of the story".
Granted, the memories people acquire are the components of the "more of me" than the other can "see", but that "more" still has to be related or and associated with the me that its more of. Astrology is the most ancient system for integrating the experiential database of all the five senses into a whole (holy) body of work sometime defined as gnosis.
The art of statecraft has gotten more and more useful throughout my adult life. I've literally created unwanted enemies by pointing out that most individuals only know a little more than a fifth of what they gnow. What I-am-is saying is that they don't need to know what they gnow, I do, and that may not exactly true either.
With my question being: What or why or how does it benefit a person to possess or be possessed by a body of knowledge no other person can ken except by interpretation and projection? I perceive the world through my five senses just like everybody else that have five working sensory modalities. Some people have less than five senses for various reasons.
Since I can only perceive what I "think" is over there in the world around me, and if I "think" differently than I personally ideate and label the objects of the world, then the world changes to accommodate my change of heart or mind, and every other person on earth has to interpret how I speak my mind or from my heart to mean what they would have meant if they speak the sa-me words.
Since nobody knows what I have in my mind and heart but me, and since I don't know what the other has in their hearts and minds, nobody knows anything more than what they individually decide, and so the entirety of all of our me-more-s is useless for re-ordering the world. This "body" of experiential knowledge is merely a carcass.
56 Jesus said, "Whoever has come to know the world has discovered a carcass, and whoever has discovered a carcass, of that person the world is not worthy."
http://users.misericordia.edu//davies/thomas/Trans.htm
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I do not attempt to tell the God's own truth here because I don't know what the truth is or hardly ever. I try to capture the drifting thoughts that randomly appear in my imagination for reasons I may not understand. I don't know if the content I capture with these words is true or false. The Comments settings are turned off to prevent me from having to defend what amounts to little more than fanciful, sometime crude speculation. Great moments in our lives never return.
