DIALECTIC MIND

Resurrexit Spiritus part 4

Dr. Marcus Aurelius Roe (2023)

“Sick and yet happy. Imperilled and yet happy. Dying and yet happy. Exiled and happy. Infamous and happy.”

-Epictetus

Reflective acceptance of the lower domains is central to the Logos domain of Resurrexit Theory. Instrumental to this process is a critical review of psychomena, ignorance, and rejections. The most common and original rejection is that basic to life, rejection of death. Every life must approach death with this same native bias, especially in youth. Perseverance upon this rejection predisposes people to the most awful fear.

The dread of death drives extremism in the Kratos and Telos domains. Those naturally resistant and craft-oriented seek escape through rebellious action or distraction. Those naturally conformant and product-oriented reject death through simple ignorance, focusing instead upon expectations, goals, and egotism. Wilful ignorance only serves to intensify the fear. The understanding of death in relation to the self becomes ever more convoluted in its expressions and reincorporation throughout life.

Death rejection repeatedly reincorporates into fear of completion, as each achieved goal attends a heightening subconscious mortal dread. These circumstances are especially present in things heavily dependent upon the temporal limitations of mortality, such as careers or relationships. Fear of completion takes on the features of procrastination and disinterest, or personal distraction from living or daring to do. This state results in alienation, anxiety, and depression. Suicide after chronic depression ultimately occurs when it is falsely believed the only correction is a forced acceptance of death through the total rejection of life.

PHILOSOPHY OF-AS-IS LIFE – PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE AS LIFE IS LIFE

Epictetus’s quote at the beginning of this article describes a state of mind utterly incomprehensible to most people. It implies undeniable happiness through Stoical clarity. You cannot destroy the facts of accomplishment. You can destroy records and convince the World against someone yet you still cannot destroy the facts. A person who has accomplished something in their life, then, has nothing to fear from sickness, peril, exile, infamy, or death. They have proven themselves capable of happiness and more by living properly and speaking truth, so they are all the happier if vilified for it. Nothing can be done against such a person to humiliate them.

Those ancient philosophers used death as an allegory for their existences before philosophy; the philosophical life was their art through moderation. It is forever a true comparison. Logos domain supremacy is a philosophical rebirth that frees a person from the fears inherent of an incomplete life. The Logos domain provides a reflection in summary of preceding domains. This reflection is a refolding of mental function, like an ever-sharpening sword, externally manifesting universal order, which is identical to wholeness. It is wholeness that provides a mature acceptance of death. This is confirmed by the fact that a fulfilling life can only occur through wholeness. Wholeness is existence beyond the fear of death.

People who believe untrue things are consequently misled in life. Those captivated by untrue things are spiritually dead. Resurrection is made possible through comprehension of truths, an arising from the dead in this very life. This is resurrection to the divine life accomplished through spiritual devotion to progress in culture, religion, art, and philosophy. It was never a literal rising from the dead.

Being in the Logos domain demands realignments in lower domains to fit the changing environment and deepening definition, or actualisation, of the self. These psychomenal realignments, or continuous rebirths, aim for the self-other moderation closest to universal good as possible. Personality developments are further refined in light of environment and change, to meet the predicted moments with reason instead of submission. This is essentially what Logos domain supremacy is: use of reason in reordering the lower domains for advancing discourse and contribution to the human dialectic.

Expedience becomes primary when the mental attachments meet the creative abstract. It is a common mistake to abandon reality completely in the exuberance. The creative abstract without foundation in the nature of reality has no reason. Only the guidance of reason can enable access to the Logos domain. Reality without the creative abstract is uneventful. Change is not navigable without the guidance of consciousness. Consciousness has no purpose without change. This is similar to how self and other are meaningless without their mutual definition. Since consciousness represents the state of self, the subconsciousness is the imposition of simulated change that creates opportunity to define the future condition of that state.

THE ESSENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS – THE SIMPLIFICATION OF COMPLEXITY THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL PARTICULAR

Particular and universal form a spectrum of relative specificity and non-specificity between. Ideals cannot exist in these absolutes since nothing can be perfectly universal, nor can any living being be entirely particular and survive. Universal can only be served through service to the most universalised particular. This is what all people look for in politicians, yet from very diverse perspectives and with imperfect information. Typically, they select weak people who are imbalanced, venal, and easily manipulated by the powerful people that paid for their campaigns. These types always offer simple solutions to complex issues and are believed. These simple solutions are similar to the solutions offered through escapism and distractive frivolities.

Simple solutions distract from absolute resolution of Logos domain reflection. Simple solutions to complexity represent mere submissions, so that the old cycles continue unabated. These cycles only end through absolute resolve. This is because complexity is eternally ceaseless where simplicity is rare and mostly temporary.

Complexity, therefore, belongs to the universal and simplicity to the particular. Simplicity applied directly to the universal folds the inherent complexity upon itself. Application of simplicity to the particular, on the other hand, establishes the calm presence of mind needed for the first stages of unfolding complexity.

Simplicity can only exist within the conscious mind of a singular person, the so-called individual, or indivisible particular. The admittance of complexity into the mind creates division through basic instability. The unstable mind admitting complexity internally mistakes it for the only thing it evolved to understand from birth, simplicity.

The rules inherent of simplicity are then repeatedly applied to complexity, which can only increase complexity generally. The mind cannot function properly this way, with every phenomenon multiplying internal complexity. The human mind evolved to unravel complexity from within its own incorruptible simplicity. There is nothing more fit for unfolding complexity than the simplified and stable mind.

Understanding imperfection and accepting things that cannot be changed are key to simplicity. That is relinquishing complexity in the self and understanding the complex social matrices built upon the simple confusion of most people. Ostensibly, the Logos domain may appear complex due to the universalising activities. However, it involves objective externalisation of complexity and internalisation of simplicity subjectively, so that universalising is tempered by simple and clear reason.

Once Logos domain supremacy is achieved, and appropriately identified, its regular commission becomes a primary goal with mounting creative confidence. The wisest residents of Logos domain will do everything in their power to maximise the amount of time spent in it. It is only through the Logos domain that the lower domains gain higher meaning in redefinition, first of immanence and then Universe.

Logos activities lead to ever greater internalised simplicity. This is an unfolding of compiled complexity and retractions of mistaken simplicity. This unfolding by internalising simplicity is identified with the psychomenal actions of regenerative intentionality that creates the pressure behind elevational motive, as discussed in part 3. Persistence in the Logos domain is a refusal to submit to any internalised complexity or externalised simplicity. Consistent internal simplicity in contemplation of absolute complexity forces greater creative coordination of the conscious and subconscious. This creativity is a simplifying function to unravel complexity.

THIS CONSCIOUS AND THAT SUBCONSCIOUS

Humans harness the subconscious to manifest a presentation of internal otherness modelled upon observation, assessment of self-efficacy, and all imagined refolding therefrom. The reason psychedelic drugs shift a person’s perspective so much is it shines a mirror on the underbelly of this internal otherness. However, any attempt at drawing meaning from the mechanics of the inner-workings is a false representation.

The image of the self is the shadow of conscious and images of others are the shadows of subconscious, which is an inference of the consciousness or selfness in others. Subconscious is used to prepare consciousness for change, or otherness. These were the first evolutionary stirrings of thought, or internal dialogue. In fact, the subconscious generation of internal goals presumed for others was likely the seed for the mirror in self-awareness itself.

Subconscious-conscious interaction in dreaming evolved to prepare the waking consciousness for unforeseen events similar but different from those experienced during the day. Before the mind developed more advanced recursive hardware, it first developed the constructive, creative, and potentialising imagination. The conscious and subconscious first evolved together as one and then divided later through development of the greater conscious precision and subconscious creativity.

Dogs and other animals dream, but it is seemingly less creative for animals, apparently providing similar practise for living. The original state of the human mental phenomenon was not always as it is. This being was less imaginative than our modern consciousness but closer to the subconscious. Ancient myths around the World allude to a waking-dream period in human history, when everything was ruled by different gods.

The Greek manteia, or state of deep thought, is much like that primitive waking-dream consciousness of distant ancestors. This is the engagement of both conscious and subconscious functions. A person lost in manteia is neither actively mindful of reality nor asleep. All forms of meditation and deep thought focus on some simple wholeness in the present being. Manteia is the simple wholeness of the complex wholeness. This can be neither sleeping nor the typical reflexive awareness that most humans instinctively prefer. The balanced deep thought state is glorious in its absolute honest coordination of grounding reality and elevating potentiality. It is the material that directs change, as its master in reality, and it is the self in manteia or the “manteic” state of Logos that is the creative neophyte of higher reasoning, the element necessary to adapt in the midst of change.

Memory and thought, or reapplications of memory, are physical features of energy. The immanent dialectic of mental construction basic to the constitution of the mind is tied to fundamental aspects in the nature of energy and reality. This is set into development during the course of childhood before any inter-human languages are learned. Language itself is nothing more than constant memorial replications fit to the shape of this internal dialectic. Thoughts are physical recollections of memories as shaped by reality. Memories and thoughts, then, are manifestations of reality. They are derived through the physical attributes of energy, which is to say they are native to energy and merely differentiated by a trick of the mind to aid individual survival. This is not the state of consciousness in which humanity began and neither can it be the final one.

Ultimately, the dialectic mind of Logos domain supremacy is internal alignment with universal potentiality. To stare for too long in the face of potentiality without the grounding of reality is to be driven mad. Consciousness and subconsciousness plan creatively in potentialised moderation. Which is to say it manifests the optimal internal reflection of the self and other into reality. It is from this vantage point that the Logos domain provides insight into reality and acts as an ever-steadfast advocate for moderation, being its very incarnation.

EVIL

Power in the hands of an imbalanced person is evil, it is like placing the highest value object on an unbalanced table. For those who are imbalanced, moderation in the lower domains will feel like a denial of the self. This is why many will enter the Logos domain for as long as they need and can maintain it, with the goal of resting upon the laurels of the success based in it. Once they have enough resources, they will give up on the art and focus again upon their lower domain extremities, the distractions that make Logos domain so seemingly challenging.

The reason why so many fail at power is largely because of basic misconceptions of power and its purpose. A primary reason for failure in mastery is that its attempt feels self-denying. This is especially true without achievement of some moderation in the lower domains. It is also true that the states in the immediately preceding domain of Eros are infinitely lovely and captivating. Achievement of moderation in Eros domain is especially difficult for many. In theory, it can be more easily accomplished after acquiring dialectical skill, i.e., advanced moderating experience from within the Kratos and Telos domains.

GOOD

So, what is mastery and power? Mastery is dominion of the consciousness over itself. Power is a recognition and engagement of that which can be reasonably changed. This is not wielded power in itself but rather the absolute truth of self-efficacy in place and time. Since anything not of self or other beneficence cannot possibly be more than Kratos domain rebellion, it falls short of Logos back into simple ignorant evil with a veneer of craft, altruism, or power. The most essential lesson of power is the realisation that freedom is the ability to recognise and do Good.

Stabilised power is recognisable by its own recognition of power, which is the ability to detect true Logos domain balance in others. The personal actualisation of power into the World is accompanied by a redoubling of mastery, as the value becomes self-appreciating in evidence. Most people who have achieved this are unrecognisable to anyone not also resident in the Logos domain, content to simply do Good in the World without much recognition.

Guiding reasoning must include psychomenal judgements otherwise their counter-existence undermines the basic moderation allowing for Logos domain residency. Logos is then intrinsically tied to love, which is the personal grounding in reality. The best love is based in preferences toward the most universal of particulars, or truth. Without this bias toward the greatest available truth, moderation fails and a person falls short spiritually.

Benefit to particulars is never to outweigh the universal. When it does, it is temporary and eventually returns to the universal. Societal stability depends on the greatest particular arising to serve the universal. The greatest particulars are the freest, or the most capable of recognising and doing good.

OF POWER, LIES, AND RESPONSIBILITY

Everyone thinks the truth will prevail but that depends on willingness to cope with the fact that lies are accepted by the majority of the World, some very ancient and others quite a bit newer. There is not only a basic human right to question experts, there is an essential responsibility to challenge them. There is no discourse without dialog and reason. Creative confidence and elevational motive are necessary to challenge the status quo. How would societies recognise problems in spirit that limit righteous dialectical challenges? Some people must see and point it out, then enough must act to change it.