idk what the fuck "enlightenment" is but it's obvious to me that many people are enlightened without their realizing it. i have no idea what makes someone one or the other
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RT @miftah___ra
that said I am still quite certain that there is no knowledge that absolutely has to be acquired from reading a certain thing, and that an illiterate bum can be smarter and wiser than the most erudite scholar in the ways that matter
https://twitter.com/miftah___ra/status/1351633345071902720
whatever necessary revelation there is, it's tacit knowledge, "embodied" or whatever. like a guitar player can't tell you how they do it, they just do it because the knowledge is embedded within
the ultimate tacit knowledge is knowledge about how to live, and why to live
i'm slightly averse to learning about Spirituality™ because it feels like trying to learn to play the guitar by studying how a guitar works
that said it's clear to me that the spiritual and material realms are deeply connected and intertwined and overlaid over each other to the point that this distinction is actually fake
as such, to understand the material world it's necessary to be tuned in to the spiritual. the modern (materialistic) world tends to ignore this, or sometimes do it without realizing. @michaelcurzi explores this in depth
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RT @michaelcurzi
A reason the Cohen piece hit me is that I'm particularly interested in the ways that the world has been 'despiritualized'.
People are desensitized to spiritual experience as a whole. Modern atheis…
https://twitter.com/michaelcurzi/status/1352761790246121474
at the same time there's a definite sense in which analysis breaks things up and loses meaning in the process- this seems esp true when doing it to spirituality
i'm not sure how to reconcile this with "wanting to reach enlightenment" which seems to be a paradox in the same way as "wanting to be happy"
for instance my friend @yantothebeast is someone i seriously consider enlightened and he's probably going to be surprised by my saying this