In this context, to know oneself can be linked to a prophetess known as the Sibyl or Pithia of Delphi. It is said that Sibyls handed down knowledge to mankind, so that they may attain true understanding and wisdom of themselves and events around them. The history of Pithia goes back to the creation story in which certain knowledge was forbidden. Thus they were guarded by the serpents of Gaia, in Delphia, the navel of earth. Her offspring was named Python and thought to be the spirit inhibiting that area, which gave forbidden Knowledge through a seerer. The other serpent was named Ladon, who guards the Golden Apples of immortality.
It is at once an admonition to stop. If self reflection is honest it is rarely comfortable. The admonition starts as a subtle ether, becomes a volatile gas. “The heart is deceitful above all things”, said the prophet….”Who can know it”? Know Thyself is a call to humility, to a recognition that the work of evil is everywhere and always a work of self-deception, a work of the diminution of conscience, the very source of self awareness.
Know thyself. Lest you know not the origins of the universal truths of being intellectually and emotionally human. We are born with universal knowledge that can be tapped only when one knows thyself.
To Know Thyself is exceedingly difficult. Much of such knowledge is beyond human understanding. And for much of the remaining, in what humans can hope to know, social pressure is ubiquitous and most give more credence to what other’s want compared to one’s own authentic desires.
I appreciate a modern oracle, Mr Todd Rose, and his study of collective illusions. Mr Rose (taking data rather than vapors) finds that social pressure is often based in collective ignorance and misunderstanding.
Understanding where we as a society falsely believe that we know ourselves can perhaps get us onto a smoother path with less drudgery and more satisfaction
In this context, to know oneself can be linked to a prophetess known as the Sibyl or Pithia of Delphi. It is said that Sibyls handed down knowledge to mankind, so that they may attain true understanding and wisdom of themselves and events around them. The history of Pithia goes back to the creation story in which certain knowledge was forbidden. Thus they were guarded by the serpents of Gaia, in Delphia, the navel of earth. Her offspring was named Python and thought to be the spirit inhibiting that area, which gave forbidden Knowledge through a seerer. The other serpent was named Ladon, who guards the Golden Apples of immortality.
Know Thyself
It is at once an admonition to stop. If self reflection is honest it is rarely comfortable. The admonition starts as a subtle ether, becomes a volatile gas. “The heart is deceitful above all things”, said the prophet….”Who can know it”? Know Thyself is a call to humility, to a recognition that the work of evil is everywhere and always a work of self-deception, a work of the diminution of conscience, the very source of self awareness.
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” -Carl Jung
Know thyself. Lest you know not the origins of the universal truths of being intellectually and emotionally human. We are born with universal knowledge that can be tapped only when one knows thyself.
To Know Thyself is exceedingly difficult. Much of such knowledge is beyond human understanding. And for much of the remaining, in what humans can hope to know, social pressure is ubiquitous and most give more credence to what other’s want compared to one’s own authentic desires.
I appreciate a modern oracle, Mr Todd Rose, and his study of collective illusions. Mr Rose (taking data rather than vapors) finds that social pressure is often based in collective ignorance and misunderstanding.
Understanding where we as a society falsely believe that we know ourselves can perhaps get us onto a smoother path with less drudgery and more satisfaction
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