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Mr. Raven's avatar

"In the Gnostic mythos, Sophia lives in exile, trapped in a kind of spiritual prison. We, too, live in exile, which is also a spiritual prison. Most of all, we live in exile from the Divine and the Creation."

Very Philip K. Dick. Did you read his Exegesis? It's two parts inspiration and one part madness. Worth your time, if you haven't read it before IMO.

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"What Sophiology offers is a regeneration of life by an engagement with what is Real. And this regeneration is conditioned by learning how to see." Yes.

Or would it be that we have to unlearn our way of not-seeing?

Perception and attention are constrained to the point where our experience becomes linear. Why? Because ordinary thinking is linear and we experience ourselves and the world around us through the lense of our thinking.

Perhaps no special consciousness is required to experience the realms of Divinity and Creation. Impartial attention can access a miracle of simultaneous impressions among the higher sensations if it is allowed to act directly, unimpeded by the thinker.

"Looking is a trace of what we are looking for.," said Rumi. Can I see that I see? In this way can I enter direct perception without content? This is akin to clearing the palate before tasting a fine wine. Content is provided by the many forms of sensing that open up my experience. Perhaps then, regeneration.

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