Not a Conceptual Process
Riffing on Eternity #3
“Philosophy is not a conceptual process”
Our love of wisdom and the life of the seeker of wisdom is not merely a shuffling of concepts back and forth, nor is it (as they say) “mere point of view.” Moving the junk around from pile to pile down at the dump isn’t going to evolve, expand and develop our soul’s purpose and the purpose of humanity.
If our goal is truth, then how can concepts possibly contain it? The ancients pointed us toward it, yet over the centuries various evolutions and expansions of concepts seem to have taken us farther away from it. The One is not to be found in mental constructions.
All these constructs are to be used by us only as scaffolding and leaping off points that will lead us to an expansion of view and of being. There is an outpouring from the fountain of truth that offers hope and encouragement to the seeker.
Since this is a mystery and there is a code to solve it, words can be used more like a playful song or even a dance that twirls, shifts, forms and unforms, veils and unveils, making a play of love and beauty. The great BEINGS for eons have given us symbols and signposts throughout the universe for our sustenance. We can use these to propel ourselves forward.
They help us expand to become more whole, and include more and greater wholes within our soul being. Soon an ever-widening overview of a great imagined horizon opens up.
We sail long past our tiny single earth-lives, past eons of histories and cultural experiments, vast efforts of so many to reveal this unfathomable universe of being which is our birthright and our home.
By discover I mean uncover, not claim. Reveal, not make.
Creativity can be known as the song of the soul, the dance of all life, the celebration of the Gods, the festival in honour of our greatest being, who has given us ALL to partake — it is up to us to find it.
More of my notes on Plato study here, at Riffing on Eternity.