Posted on 05/03/2016 7:22:04 AM PDT by Salvation
right.
reminds me of similar, prosaic passage from Vico....
I found this passage from http://www.britannica.com/biography/Giambattista-Vico that seems very apropos to us today.
“A second basic notion of Vico is that man has a mixed nature: he remains closer to the beast than to the angel. For Vico the second stage of barbarism, which closes the age of men, arises from an excess of reflection or from the predominance of technology. This stage heralds an imminent new beginning of history. The fundamental perversity of the second stage of barbarism makes it, in fact, more dangerous than the first, which in its excess of strength contains noble impulses that need only to be brought under control. Man becomes a coward, an unbeliever, and an informer, hiding his evil intentions behind “flattery and hypocritical wheedling.” Families live huddled together in tentacled cities, veritable “deserts of souls.” These degenerate peoples do not hesitate to rush into the worst of slaveries to find shelter and protection. Money becomes the only value. This dissolution from the age of men to the bestial state exposes humanity to a fate far worse than arrests or regressions of civilizations. Vico hoped to serve warning to men of the evils that could overtake them if they became worshippers of a materialist ideology or the servants of a science uninformed by conscience.”
Yes! That’s a good summary of the passage I was thinking of. Vico of course puts it a bit more eloquently, but let me pull it up and I will post it.
It’s very chilling.
Sorry for the late post, but how do thoughts manifest?
Another bkmk.
“but how do thoughts manifest?”
IN the beginning was the “Word.” A word is merely a metaphor for a thought or a pattern of consciousness.
Your patterns of consciousness manifest in the physical.
In many ways “I think therefor I am.” by Descartes is a very true statement. Luckily, lower frequency thoughts have less ability to manifest in the physical to save us from harming ourselves and others.
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