03-30-2011, 02:49 AM
I like it! You can extend this to other realms too.
Much of my philosophical development comes from skepticism, and skepticism consists of the following mental act: "I think P. What if not-P?" So for instance, maybe I think that God exists. What if God doesn't exist? That kind of thinking will mature your philosophy very quickly.
This also leads in essence to the method of "balancing" described by Ra of balancing each thing with its opposite. To give an example, I am fairly proud. Since I feel that I am superior, I can balance myself with the thought, "what if I am not superior?" Or, suppose that at a given moment I feel sexually frustrated. I can question my reality: "what if I am not sexually frustrated?" And that can confuse me enough that I realize the Law of One and see that there is no sexual frustration. That, of course, has to be carefully distinguished from sexual repression, because they are two very different mental acts. In the one case I am denying my reality, and in the other case I am simply posing the sly question, like the Zen master in the koans.
I think you can go very far with this "do things the other way round" concept.
Much of my philosophical development comes from skepticism, and skepticism consists of the following mental act: "I think P. What if not-P?" So for instance, maybe I think that God exists. What if God doesn't exist? That kind of thinking will mature your philosophy very quickly.
This also leads in essence to the method of "balancing" described by Ra of balancing each thing with its opposite. To give an example, I am fairly proud. Since I feel that I am superior, I can balance myself with the thought, "what if I am not superior?" Or, suppose that at a given moment I feel sexually frustrated. I can question my reality: "what if I am not sexually frustrated?" And that can confuse me enough that I realize the Law of One and see that there is no sexual frustration. That, of course, has to be carefully distinguished from sexual repression, because they are two very different mental acts. In the one case I am denying my reality, and in the other case I am simply posing the sly question, like the Zen master in the koans.
I think you can go very far with this "do things the other way round" concept.