01-15-2016, 12:00 PM
(01-15-2016, 11:06 AM)Verum Occultum Wrote: Is it highly probable to experience cognitive dissonance if you believe things Ra has said, because this is not a density of knowing/understanding yet they give understanding?
They lay out a set of connections between certain concepts, which they often gave unique terms for. That is not necessarily understanding until it has been translated into one's own internal symbol structure.
It's like when 100 people watch a movie. You will get 100 different reviews. Just read IMDB reviews for any movie that has had a wide release. Filter by 'love it' and then 'hated it'. Did these people watch the same movie, have the same exposure to the same stimuli? I think they did. And yet the 'understandings' they took away from it were of a vastly different nature.
And likewise, exposing ourselves to any philosophy will generate various (and variable) understandings in each individual. The understandings do not come from the text. All they offer is a mapping of concepts and their inter-relationships. How we choose to restructure those in our own minds, is done on an individual basis. We can then compare how we understood things by using our own language, and expressing things on a more practical level; as humans to humans, where the conceptual mapping has a much more common symbol set than the one Ra is using.