when the light bulbs shined

[Guest guest]

Dan, all,

Well, if only the wise can know they know, then its slim pickings for

all of us guessers.

Cosmologists have inferred their way to a view of the universe short of

its origins from somethin' by several thousand years. That's tough

place to develop an ethics out of, fer sure.

This summer when I was researching the origins of music made out of the

sonic world of early man, <100,000 bce, and gathering up the

research of Wallin and Mithen et al (Mithen:The Singing Neanderthals;

see also Ian Cross's summary, "Is music the most

important thing we ever did ? Music, development and evolution" ) I

was struck by how historicist one is compelled to be in noting the

passing from the rudimentary to the conceptually complex.

Now I'm not able to buy the esoteric concept because it can't help but

end up a matter of interpretation; the tautological aspect is obvious

("I know it this way because I know it this way."); and, worst of all,

those fundamental posits would be atomizable thus simple thus not

arcane even if they might be dangerous and dangerous to widely

publicize.

Wait a second. Jung was an empiricist and even if he noted that an

elite consciousness was needed to struggle beyond the reconciliation of

the personality this is different than a self-selecting "elect"

supposing, (and that they possessed,) this necessary measure of

consciousness! The there's his argument against the kind of

one-sidedness any appropriation of certainty entails. (Which is why the

analytic psychology in its classical form is necessarily developmental

and historicist.)

The arch traditionalists, Guenon being the best example, seem to me to

offer much more than Strauss if one is to hang their hat on natural

ordination, especially given that for Guenon there is a secreted (and

supernatural) world behind the rummy contradictions of messy biological

contingency and creativity.

One lives, then dies; one may be moved to harm threats to one's own

survival...thank the Gods the background radiation suggests the

original 'something' was lumpy.

Something out of lumps...

regards,