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4:04 AM Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Today I am writing as always for spiritual awakening.It is not as if I really have choices although I am free

to choose. I do as I please and I am pleased to writealthough I could choose to do something else likewash the car or make some money, hunt some rabbitsor tend to crops. Were I to be guided by rationalcalculations I might well do something else other thanwrite but long ago I discovered the divinity of innerguidance so that I value whatever it is I feel pleased to

do because I know what I please is of divine origin andnot necessarily what my ego would understand to bein my best interests.

I have at times compared my method of choosing tothe act of walking on an unknown trail taking eachstep knowing the trail is a path of divine intention –

like God’s will – not my own egocentric will - it is as if I am following a divine pathway. I recall with greatacuteness becoming aware in the year 1984 of theamazing transformation in my method of choosingwhat to do and think. At that time I was content todescribe the change in words from the language usedby D.T. Suzuki in a book on Zen Buddhism. He used

the terminology of “ratiocination” and “transcendentalintuition” to describe the before and after mental

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orientation applicable to Buddhist enlightenment.Ratiocination was the English word Suzuki chose todescribe the mentality of intellectuality which heelaborated as climbing a pinnacle of intellect until theend is reached and then with no hope of going back down the only viable choice is to leap into theemptiness of the void of intuition.

At that time, these metaphors seemed to me to fit myown previous experiences of radical psychic mutationso intimately I was quite convinced of their divineorigin and uncanny accuracy. My own experiences of psychic mutation had taken place quite independentlyand autonomously without even the least influence of any intellectual or spiritual tradition but strictly as a

consequence of a series of events involving womenand changes in my personal circumstances that hadcombined in a most unexpected way to create newopportunities for me to engage spontaneously inprolonged pleasant sessions of introspection which inturn led to joyful awakening of awareness of previouslyhidden purposefulness behind those events – all of

which I considered to be the most amazing gift of spiritual liberation including my initiation into secretknowledge beyond anything I’d previously imaginedpossible. From that time onwards, more than thirtyyears now, I was convinced that divine intelligenceshapes the path I take in life even when I am unawarethat purposes beyond my perception are guiding my

choices intuitively.

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In recent years I’ ve often compared these experiencesof mine with the statement attributed to GWF Hegel ina letter he wrote about seeing Napoleon Bonaparte onhorseback riding through the city of Jena in 1806, theday before the great battle that finally brought thelong awaited European “revolution” from France toPrussia and to the whole German speaking world. Iinterpret Hegel’s words as meaning that he sawNapoleon as an unconscious unwitting instrument of the divine purposefulness behind the revolutionarychanges in society leading towards a more-democraticconstitutional social structure in which the absolutefreedom necessary for philosophical autonomy isdefended and protected by the collective power of thesocial aggregate a new type of government quite

distinct from the ancien regime designed to protectand defend private interest of a tiny micro-minority of the rich dynastic families and their allied seniorclergymen.

Others have interpreted Hegel’s statement as a sign of his Chauvinistic admiration of Napoleon the mass

murderer – of the person rather than admiration of theworldsoul which Hegel understood to be usingNapoleon like a whore to achieve the goals of divinepurposefulness of processes of cultural evolutionarymutation.

It was only a year or two at most before I read

Suzuki’ s words on ratiocination versus transcendentalintuition that I’d read Hegel’s Philosophy of History in

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the great books series edited by Mortimer Adler – borrowed from the local municipal library in Tucson,

Arizona. I knew nothing then of Hegel’s letter aboutNapoleon. Nor did I know that The Philosophy of History was published after he died by his followerscollecting together notes of his lectures on the subject.It was not one of the literary works he himself choseto publish. From my reading I immediately concludedthat Hegel and I were in harmony regarding what Ithen called “integral consciousness”. It was from myown experiences of integration of my own experiences,in my introspection, that I first became aware of thepreviously concealed divine purposefulness perceptiblein the integration of the events of my life. Myconclusion from reading Hegel’s Philosophy of History

was that Hegel had experienced a similar awakening of divine purposefulness in the events of human historyand the evolution of human society, culture andcivilization. I found in Hegel perhaps the firstlegitimate confirmation of my own amazing

“discovery” of the secrets of integral consciousness.From that time onwards I have considered Hegel to be

one of the very few kindred spirits I have discovered.

In early 1984, after that surprize discovery of myspiritual kinship with Hegel, I accidentally stumbled onanother spiritual kinship that would prove to be evenmore influential – one that remains still the mostpowerful of all such fortuitous harmonious resonances.

I rediscovered Plato in the Symposium and thePhaedrus. I had earlier but very superficial exposure

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to both the Republic (1978) and the Phaedo (1980) butmy reading of those books did not have any immediatenoticeable memorable effects that I can recall. Myreading of the Symposium and the Phaedrus both hadan immediate and momentous and memorable,enduring effect that continues to this day.

Perhaps the phrase that was most influential then inearly 1984 after my first reading was the sentencefrom the Phaedrus which concerns how authenticSocratic/Platonic philosophers go about their practiceof philosophy – a quest powered by their love of allknowledge for the specific purpose of emancipationfrom and transcendence of delusional opinion andexperience of the illuminating divine truth of

enlightenment. The three words that leapt out of thatsentence due to their exceptional resonance with myown independent ad autonomous experiences of integral consciousness and psychic mutation werethese three words:

PERFECT MYSTIC VISION

I felt an immense resonance between these words andmy own experiences in integral consciousness - a stateof being in which I felt as if I was able to see throughopaque barriers that limited my awareness in “ordinaryconsciousness”. It was like seeing through spacepreviously obscured by clouds or like the removal of aveil or a wall of fog. And what I saw was that unlike

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ordinary awareness which was full of awareness of flaws and mistakes, errors and depravities – in theintegral conscious state of being everything wasdivinely intended and meant to be precisely as it is – that is – perfect – flawlessly perfect and complete.Upon my first reading I was certain that Plato hadexperienced precisely the same sort of illuminatingexperiences I had quite spontaneously andautonomously experienced.

It has taken years for me to more fully understandwhat Plato was saying in addition to the obviousimplied truth that he and some knowledge of thereality of the amazing experience of the universe andall of reality being divinely intended and perfect in

even the least detail. In the context that Plato usedthe three words were embedded in a statement about “methods’ that comprise the practices of philosopherswho are possessed by Gods and regarded by ordinarypeople as mad or insane because they applythemselves to philosophy and the experiences of theperfect mystic vision instead of the common objects of

human ambition – making money, gratifying physicalurges, exercising power, collecting food etcetera.

The sentence that forms the context is a sentenceintended to communicate to readers that it is amistake to give in to promises from other people whowant to use you for sex instead of using your time to

engage in introspection directed at experiencing theperfect mystic vision. Instead of being deceived and

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used by other cunning and deceptive people for theirselfish sexual purposes a young person is advised thatthey will be much better served by choosing to

“become perfect” by practicing specific philosophicalmethods which are also described in the paragraphthat forms the context of the sentence in which threethree words are embedded.

That sentence is:

It is only by the right use

of such aids to recollection,which form a continual initiation

into the PERFECT MYSTIC VISION that a human can become perfect

in the true sense of the word

The method to be practiced instead of indulging inhaving sex with human predators who seek to seduceyou – is the method involving the right use of aids torecollecting.

What is it that is being recollected. Some clues can begleaned from exploring the whole paragraph in whichthis sentence is embedded.

It is impossible for a soul that has never seenthe truth to enter into our human shape; it

takes a man to understand by the use of

universals, and to collect out of the multiplicity

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of sense-impressions a unity arrived at by aprocess of reason.

Such a process is simply the recollection of the

things which our soul once perceived when it

took its journey with a god, looking down fromabove on the things to which we now ascribe

reality and gazing upwards towards what istruly real.

That is why it is right that the soul of the

philosopher alone should regain its wings; for

it is always dwelling in memory as best it mayupon those things which a god owes his

divinity to dwelling upon.

IT IS ONLY BY THE RIGHT USE

OF SUCH AIDS TO RECOLLECTIONWHICH FORM A CONTINUAL INITIATION

INTO THE

PERFECT MYSTIC VISIONTHAT A MAN CAN BECOME PERFECT

IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD

Because he stands apart from the commonobjects of human ambition and applies himself to the divine, he is reproached by most men for

being out of his wits; they do not realize thathe is in fact possessed by a god.

What is recollected is knowledge of the psyche – spiritual knowledge of past life experiences of journeys

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literary works in past lives and/or being an avatar of areincarnating transmigrating psyche/soul/spirit whohas been been a Platonist scholar in a past life orperhaps even Plato. As I recall some details of myphilosophical journey under divine guidance – it was in2007 and 2008 that I began to feel some reluctantattraction to improving my understanding of theintellectual context in which my teachers in schoolsand at the universities I attended in the fifties sixtiesand seventies – were educated and thus I hoped tocome to a better understanding of the intellectualinfluences that shaped the world view into which I wasinitiated along with the many other children born in1948 who were my classmates at Como Primary Schooland Applecross Senior High School, at the University of

Western Australia and John Curtin University where Istudied prior to entering the work force as aprofessional mineral processing engineer in the naturalresources extraction industries.

In the process of studying the intellectual context of that world view into which I was initiated in my

primary secondary and tertiary schooling I haveexplored the literary works of many authors includingFriedrich Nietzsche, Noam Chomsky, Jean Gebser, CarlJung, Eric Fromm, Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl,

Abraham Maslow, Theodore Roszak, Thomas Berry,Fritjof Capra, Richard Rorty, Walt Whitman, MaxWeber, Friedrich Hayek, William James, D.T. Suzuki,

Karl Popper, Peter Drucker, Carlos Castaneda andmany many others. All of these roads seem to

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converge in a renewed interest in GWF Hegel. NotImmanmnuel Kant nor Johann Goethe, not WilliamBlake of David Hume. Not Baruch Spinoza or ReneDescartes. GWF Hegel. Be that as it may be – it doesnot diminish the overwhelming importance of Plato inmy understanding of my own experiences of indoctrination and my emancipation beginning in about1981-1984.

If governments are best run like a “business” thengovernment should maximize its profits rather thanoperating at a loss and financing the loss by raisingdebt financing. Maximizing profits for a government iseasily accomplished by maximizing “sales” revenue forgoods and services using the unique advantage of

legitimate force to compel taxation of fifty percent of all income and sales tax of 100 percent on all goodsand services. But governments may not be best runlike a business since it is by definition a monopoly andmust be a monopoly. The better question is then howis a monopoly business like government best run? Ithink the answer is very obvious. Government should

be run to maximize aggregate revenue to maximize taxrevenue by maximizing GNP and that is best done bymaximizing freedom of speech and of life liberty andthe pursuit of happiness

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