Shijing said:My take on that was that it meant something like "injecting order into chaos", i.e. projecting an organizing principle into the raw material that is chaos in order to create something more structured.
SAO said:There is Chaos, and what we inject into it depends on what we do with what we get. And it seems like this is both a conscious action - like networking and sharing with others a signal among all the noise (chaos), and unconscious - what our body/mind/soul does with cosmic energies based on our genetic capability, which we develop with conscious work. And the Wave sounds like it includes a surge of energy of infinite potential of some sort - and whether that surge gets converted into more chaos or into order completely depends on our readiness to transduce it. That's my current take on it anyhow!
Do not lose heart. Just remember that if you do all you can, yourselves in the future will bridge the gap. You are all potential transducers of information into chaos. Let that information be love/truth.
Laura said:Session Date: July 4th 2015
Q: (Data) How does one get these pathogens?
A: Food and water and infections that weaken and allow entry.
Q: (L) So you can have them in your food and water like anywhere, but unless you get something else that weakens you, they don't take hold?
A: Yes
Laura said:Do not lose heart. Just remember that if you do all you can, yourselves in the future will bridge the gap. You are all potential transducers of information into chaos. Let that information be love/truth.
Chu said:Alfisti said:The point that was raised about 'preaching to the choir fatigue': Of all of the truth and awareness shared on places like Facebook, it's the same people ignoring it; refusing to accept or acknowledge it and the same people who are already aware and affirming each other's posts. Is it now just a game of numbers? Those who are awake, semi-awake, dreaming they're awake and those that will never wake up? Is there nothing more to be done?
Well, that is one way to look at it, but how can we be sure? That may be the impression we sometimes get, but facts actually show otherwise. Many people whom we have never met or heard off write to SOTT often, or contact us in some way, and they seem to be pretty much onboard. Their life circumstances don't let them interact here (yet), but those are nice surprises telling us that it is worth continuing to address everyone, not just a small group who already "gets it". We were all newbies once, and someone extended a hand. Someone said something others had said, but it suddenly made us go "aha!". So, I think that those things show that it's not just a game of numbers, but that everything is still open. Shocks can change things, if it's not too "late", but that is also a 3D thinking, if there is no "time". We just have to keep going, and see what happens.
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We can't blame those who don't know, or whose life circumstances make it very hard to know, or who have their own lessons before they see some "light". But every time we learn, every time we DO see something, not doing something about it (even if it is just posting something on FB, writing a post to help out someone, sharing, etc.), then we are contributing to "the triumph of Evil". OSIT.
That's a very powerful section in ISOTM about knowledge, and the principle that 'One must acquire knowledge from one who knows'. It also implies that those who possess knowledge must maintain a very high moral standard and avoid being infected by evil.I found a ISOTM's passage talking about Knowledge and Number,
the page 44 to the 47
www.gurdjieff.am/in-search/index.pdf
Knowledge is material. There is a definite quantity of it in a given place at a given time. Taken in a large quantity by "one" man, it produces very good results; taken in a small quantity by a large number of people, it gives "no results" at all.
Horseofadifferentcolor said:SummerLite said:And the last message is so good, I could cry.
I did shed a grateful tear. Thank you for the session.