
Why has humanity given such importance to thought? Is it because it is the only thing we have, even though it is activated through the senses? Is it because thought has been able to dominate nature, dominate its surroundings, has brought about some physical security? Is it because it is the greatest instrument through which man operates, lives and benefits? Is it because thought has made the gods, the saviours, the super-consciousness, the anxiety, the fear, the sorrow, the envy, the guilt? Is it because it holds people together as a nation, as a group, as a sect? It is because it offers hope to a dark life? Is it because it gives an opening to escape from the daily boring ways of our life? Is it because not knowing what the future is, it offers the security of the past, its arrogance, its insistence on experience? Is it because in knowledge there is stability, the avoidance of fear in the certainty of the known? Is it because thought in itself has assumed the position, taken a stand against the unknown?

The real short anwser (IMO) is we tend to mess things up quite regularly. Giving more time to thought before action is an vain attempt to increase our success percentage, it doesn't but we like to think it does.
Even without giving it much thought I would disagree with 'killing off the childhood ego', that is the base of our emotional development, for both kinds of emotions, joys and horrors.

Oh no no no Cliffy. We do INDEED kill of the 6th sense in the child. When a child senses something and are rightfully scare we tell them it's not real and just imagination. You've never see this done? Some parents will say it nothing some wil say it is demons and you need to pray, some laugh and embarass the child for being curious about what they can still see and hear. Our ability to see what we can't see but is definetly around us was take from us by religion and myth.
I agree except where you cite myth and religion as agents in the suppression of the sixth sense.
Why has humanity given such importance to thought? Is it because it is the only thing we have, even though it is activated through the senses? Is it because thought has been able to dominate nature, dominate its surroundings, has brought about some physical security? Is it because it is the greatest instrument through which man operates, lives and benefits? Is it because thought has made the gods, the saviours, the super-consciousness, the anxiety, the fear, the sorrow, the envy, the guilt? Is it because it holds people together as a nation, as a group, as a sect? It is because it offers hope to a dark life? Is it because it gives an opening to escape from the daily boring ways of our life? Is it because not knowing what the future is, it offers the security of the past, its arrogance, its insistence on experience? Is it because in knowledge there is stability, the avoidance of fear in the certainty of the known? Is it because thought in itself has assumed the position, taken a stand against the unknown?

The real short anwser (IMO) is we tend to mess things up quite regularly. Giving more time to thought before action is an vain attempt to increase our success percentage, it doesn't but we like to think it does.
Even without giving it much thought I would disagree with 'killing off the childhood ego', that is the base of our emotional development, for both kinds of emotions, joys and horrors.

You guys are all pretty deep this early in the morning. Thought should be a postive thing and the only times it's not is when based on a false premise or most often on no premise at all.

Oh no no no Cliffy. We do INDEED kill of the 6th sense in the child. When a child senses something and are rightfully scare we tell them it's not real and just imagination. You've never see this done? Some parents will say it nothing some wil say it is demons and you need to pray, some laugh and embarass the child for being curious about what they can still see and hear. Our ability to see what we can't see but is definetly around us was take from us by religion and myth.

How so? When a completely positive unknown event occurs (near death accident oddly averted) and what is the first thing that comes to mind? It was guardian angels, saints, Jinn, spirit guide, kharma etc etc etc.
If something odd happens it is ghosts demons and satan himself. How many killers have claimed "They made me do it"? They who? Demons? Ghosts? Jinn?

I don't see how these two ideas are exclusive. Our 6th sense is not attached to the ego. It has nothing to do with it. What you are describing is the beginning of the lie - the entire false reality that we live in because our "education" from the time we leave the womb is about tearing down what is real about being human and creating this Matrix, this computer construct we call reality. Yes, we are shamed into becoming less than human by denying our own divinity.
Quote:All thought originates with the ego and the ego is an immature construct..........
Man has never and can never dominate nature.
We are nature , therefore ...........
We will work with nature or we will surely perish.

Cliffy ,
Thought is the reaction of memory, it is born from memory. Memory is experience as knowledge stored up in the brain cells. You can watch your own brain, you don’t have to become a specialist. The brain cells hold memory; it is a material process, there is nothing sacred, nothing holy about it. And thought has created everything that we have done: going to the moon and planting a silly flag up there; going to the depths of the sea and living there; all the complicated technology and its machinery. Thought has been responsible for all this. Your thoughts have divided the world into Britain, France,Canada,Poland and so on. And thought has created the psychological structure of the “me”. That “me” is not holy, something divine ,the me is the ego .
Semantics. I was referring to Me, not me.
Quote:We will work with nature or we will surely perish.
China don't be so stingy with the words will ya. It what is called suicide?