SPIRITUALITY: The Bottom Line

The Bottom Line
By McKenna, Jed

Whadda you know?

Seriously. With absolute certainty, what do you know? Put aside all opinions, beliefs and theories for a moment and address this straight question: What we know for sure? Or, as Thoreau put:

"Let us resolve ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that flood that covers the globe ... through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, until we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we call reality and say: This is, and no error, and then start ... "

In other words, let's cut the crap and understand what is real. The cogito does exactly that, and it is very simple. The question is: What do you know?

The answer is: I Am

All other so-called facts are really facts and not fall into the category of consensual reality and relative truth, namely, the reality and the unreal truth is not true.

::: Cogito ergo sum

Cogito ergo sum is the equation that proves the fact. But first, before going ahead, ask what else we know. What more can you say for sure?

Nothing. We know nothing else. And this is the real point of the cogito. The importance of I Am is not a fact, but it 's the only fact.

Am I the only thing that nobody ever knew or will ever know. Everything else, all religion and philosophy, is nothing but the interpretation of dreams. There is no other fact than me. The cogito is the seed of thought that destroys the universe. Beyond the cogito, nothing is known. Beyond the cogito, nothing can be known. Except I Am, nothing is known. No man or god can claim to know more. No God or an array of gods can exist or be imagined who knows more than this one thing: I Am

We can not avoid this topic briefly in the Christian kingdom comes. When Moses asked God his name, God replied: "I am what I am." The name of God gives of himself is I Am

Note that I Am unconjugatable. It allows no change. God says: "My name is I Am, but you can call me you are, or him." The cogito, the I Am equation, does not extend beyond their own subjective knowledge. I can say I am and I know the truth, but I can not say you are, he, she, we, they, it, etc. I know I exist and nothing else. Understood this agreement, I, aka God, is truly the Alpha and the Omega, the totality of being, knowledge of you.

::: The line is drawn

The cogito is the line between fantasy and reality. On one side of the cogito is a universe of beliefs and ideas and theories. To cross the line is to leave everything behind. No theory, concept, belief, opinion or debate can have no possible basis in reality once the ramifications of the cogito have completely saturated the mind. No dialogue can take place across that line because nothing that makes sense on both sides makes sense on the other.

We all think we know what the cogito means, this is an invitation to challenge this assumption. If you really understood the philosophy professors, are not professors of philosophy. Alfred North Whitehead said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato, but the whole philosophy, Plato included, is rendered obsolete and irrelevant by Descartes. Nothing but the subjective I Am is true, then what is the point of talking about?

The cogito is not a simple thought or idea, is an ego-eating virus that incubated and nurtured properly, will eventually devour all illusion. Once we know that the cogito, we can begin systematically unknowing everything we thought we know, and reveal the self we are not.

::: Life is a dream

There is no such thing as objective reality. Two can not be proved. Nothing can be detected. Time and space, love and hate, good and evil, cause and effect, all ideas are right. Who says you know something is really saying they do not know the only thing. The religious and philosophical thoughts and ideas in human history does not contain truth than the bleating of sheep. The greatest books are more authoritative than the largest meat lunch.

Nobody knows anything.

::: Refute it for you

Who would deny these allegations sufficient to demonstrate the significance of the cogito that whatever something is true. By all means, give it a try, dash my head on it, but can not be done. Cogito ergo sum, however, is not the end point of inquiry is the starting point is a tool that helps us to see, without intermediaries, exactly what is true and what is not.

How great is that?

McKenna, Jed