Consciousness Thinking

 

Perspective 14 Consciousness Thinking

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Strephon talks about the contrast with Consciousness Thinking and “Eckhart Tolle Thinking.” Why?

So we are not seduced into unconsciousness by Tolle’s kind of passive, guru thinking. Why?

So that we can affirm the value of thinking for ourselves and not giving over our consciousness awareness to any guru type, no matter how brilliant in their thinking they seem.

Tolle is clearly anti thinking, as with the statement that you don’t reach enlightenment through thinking. Thinking stands in the way. Yet Tolle does some brilliant thinking to arrive at the position: don’t try to think your way into enlightenment.

Strephon takes another view, as a philosopher and psychologist, that logical, clear thinking replicates the laws and inherent relations of the universe itself, and so is in its pure form consistent with the universe.

Thus, to be in reality, in direct experience about what our existence is, we have to use the clearest objective thinking we are capable of.

Don’t give over your thinking function to someone else who seems brilliant to you!

Have a look at the videos of Tolle on the Web and see there a man playing guru, a man playing The Enlightened One. Such a role then evokes the spiritual center within each person, but in an unconscious way. Followers don’t have to do anything but believe in the superior insights about existence coming from the man playing guru.

When you give up your own thinking process you then give up the chance to be clear about yourself, you give up the chance to be in experiential reality as it directly is.

Far from being in the moment, a tenet of Tolle’s, his thought transcends the moment into concepts such as enlightenment, claiming this for himself and for anyone who believes like him.

Strephon, as a philosopher-psychologist, takes the view that to be in the moment is to be in everyday experience but also to be processing that experience according to the core principles and values operating there.

Instead of some sort of aha, enlightenment experience, self-claimed, of course, you have the daily practice of being ordinary and self-reflective, the opposite of those playing guru and followers, certainly.

Strephon as a basis for his talk here also responds to a perceptive listener’s comments so as to be grounded in how others besides himself see things.

While Strephon is articulate, he is no guru. He doesn’t answer spiritual questions. Instead, he questions. This is the method of questioning until you arrive at the core experience that cannot be questioned.

If you don’t ever arrive there in your life, what have you?

Yes, what have you achieved so far in life that you can almost absolutely trust is reality itself, is existence?