Theos-Talk Archives (November 2000 Message tt00097)

> Hello thanks for the support:
I am new to this list, so i hope that my posting does not deviate from the 
main purpose of this discussion.

i have studied metaphysics most all of my life and symbology works it's way 
into all that i think, do and say. It is most difficult not to think 
abstractly when you are taught to do this from an early age.

It is astounding what we have lost with the advent of systematically 
educating our youth to live to sell a product. One way that we can work the 
magic back into our lives is to discover the relationship of mythologies 
within ourselves. To look into the vast reaches of our past and view the 
gods and goddesses as parts of us, and discover which ones are speaking at 
any given moment in time. It is even better to discover which are 
consistently in place within us, because this allows us to constellate with 
them, within the mythological landscape of their own development within our 
own seasonal growth.

When a person says that some people cannot think abstractly i must question 
what is it that is not abstract within the person. It is my understanding 
that there is abstract thought, before a systematically organized one can 
exist. We may not remember the abstract formula, however, this does not 
mean that it is not there, or was the seed which planted itself within our 
thought processes before we organized it into the thought that we could 
make sense out of... should the abstract thought not find a fertile bed in 
which to deposit it's seed thought, then perhaps the person who received 
the abstract thought may not even notice that s/he had one, because they 
where not able to process it.

I do not even think that it is possible not to have an abstract thought. 
The phenomena of the mandala within our vision of awareness may very well 
be the beginnings of abstract thought formulating themselves into patterns 
of awareness. These mandelas have been mathematically mapped out and 
studied which show how to lead us to the origin of thought itself. I am not 
a mathematician so i cannot easily explain to you how this is occurs... but 
if anyone is interested i can point to a person's link who has studied this 
for many years... it is called synthetic dimensions... i call it a Bridge 
to consciousness...

Dreams themselves can be very abstract, and may help a person who is hoping 
to reach that part of themselves on a conscious level. Another good 
mechanism that i have found to work with is the Celtic knots... the art 
work and the stories and mythologies which are embedded within those 
twisted ways are astounding... still another route is the use of the Major 
Arcana of the Sacred Tarot... i would support this route should the person 
using the Tarot use a deck which uses the classic symbology such as the 
Builders of the Adytum self made decks. {http://www.bota.org}

Of course the practice of meditation is of primary importance, as well as 
meditation on various ancient symbols in order to access deeper part of 
oneself...

It would be interesting to know how others view the world in abstract terms 
and what this means for others. For me it means that there are languages 
one can study in order to speak to people in various part of the world... 
and then there are languages which spirits, gods, goddesses, fairies, 
gnomes, the elements, space, "things", pictures, symbols, speak all around 
us, and their languages are diverse and rich beyond compare, if we learn 
how to listen.

Giovanna