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Please note that the text below was written by the feeling-being ‘Peter’ while ‘he’ lived in a
pragmatic (methodological), still-in-control/same-way-of-being Virtual Freedom before becoming actually free.
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Rational
Rational: Having the faculty of
reasoning; endowed with reason. Using the faculty of reasoning; having sound judgement. Existing (only) in the mind, not real. Oxford Dictionary
Peter: The major problem with rational thinking is that it is
more often than not applied to beliefs rather than facts. Thus in philosophy, religion, spirituality, theoretical science, ethics
and the likes, vast and complex extenuated webs of thinking and argument have been based on initial premises that are usually some
spurious form of Ancient Wisdom or demented, passionate imagination. Just because someone is rational does not necessary make the
person sensible. Just because an argument or train of thought is rational does not necessarily make it sensible or factual in
conclusion. As the definition points out, rational thinking and reasoning is a cerebral exercise – existing
(only) in the mind, not real – and has nothing to do with what is actual and sensately experienced. Only an
intelligence freed of ‘self’-ishness and the chemical influence of instinctual passions can operate with sagacity and
sensibility. It is our fellow human beings, the practical scientists, chemists, engineers, explorers and the like that have given
we humans very useful things.
The Gurus, philosophers, theoretical scientists and the like have given us nothing but
theories, beliefs, concepts, ideas, scenarios, dreams, nightmares, hope and hopelessness. As I began to abandon the spiritual
world, I serendipitously discovered someone who had abandoned Enlightenment and had worked out a ruthlessly effective empirical
method for eliminating one’s social identity and all of one’s instinctual passions. Give me something that works over an ideal
or a theory any day.
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