Irritation Healing as a Precognition

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Folks

 

I will use palm reading as an example, and subject it to Pierce's logic

system, as abduction, deduction and induction:

 

(1) Abduction, someone comes up with the hypothesis that palm reading is

real.

(2) Deduction, one uses palm reading to predict future observations.

(3) Induction, one compares the predictions with sense-certain observations.

 

I recognize these three steps as the affirmation of Trinity, leading to self

awareness. But let us look to the issue of science. Now someone can study palm

reading if they want, doing real science, it is their choice, but you see I

am not particular interested in the results unless they prove something

unusual. This is not to say that I can arbitrarily reject palm reading, there

may be

something much deeper that I overlooked as I hint below. Nevertheless, I am

more interested in the placebo effect that hints of a deeper connection between

mind and body.

 

The dedicated palm reader that does this science will arrive with statistical

tests after progressing to step (3). Presumably the belief in palm reading

will be falsified with data, but you see while my scheme is represented above

with no ambiguous qualities there remains the issue of emotions and run-on

thoughts. Trinity after all is as much about our dual nature and our ability to

recognize and repair errors. This is not unlike the cell's ability to recognize

and repair copying errors in DNA. Now in this light steps 1, 2 and 3 are

lessons we do to tune ourselves to the problem so we can see/feel errors. This

requires direct experience by the palm reader, and the lessons in written form

is

not the direct experience. When Karl Popper writes about his falsification

principle I don't believe he relates it to these emotions. A Buddhist monk, on

the

other hand, will point to the need to be mindful with our emotions, otherwise

we won't be able to see our errors that have been representation following

steps 1, 2 and 3. Something must recognize steps 1, 2, and 3 as a self

certitude. That which represents and that which recognizes again signifies

Trinity, and

this signification is represented again by steps 1, 2 and 3.

 

The dedicated palm reader is unmoved at first. She, or he, continues to

believe in the predictive power of palm reading, as there is something more.

Gradually, the palm reader starts to change her, or his, beliefs and comes up

with

new abductions, provided by step 1. Eventually she, or he, comes around, but

oddly there are unexpected things that were discovered, things that would have

never been known without these investigations. The palm reader is as much Dean

Radin that wrote the books, " The Conscious Universe " and " Entangled Minds " ,

and discovered real psi effects that hold up to the statistical testing, albeit

not exactly palm reading. You ought to look at his work if you think psi

effects are not real.

 

The problem that I see is that sometimes science is restricted to step (3),

i.e., following Popper's falsification principle like it is the only thing that

is important, forgetting the emotional attachments and the importance to

recognize errors as a self certainty. But as you can see it also involves steps

(1) and (2). Steps (1) and (2) imply something in broader reality that is

missing with pure empiricism. I believe this is a better platform to study

evolution, and moreover, it provides a unification of Darwinism and intelligent

design,

as real science.

 

Any way, the issue returns to error recognition through an act of self

awareness. This self evaluation must involve all three steps, including

abduction.

Our Western ways have limited our level of introspection to deduction and

induction, enforcing this limited perspective to the point of censorship. The

unfinished business involves the activity of self awareness in abduction leading

to

error recognition, and this deserves a careful second look.

 

Understand that abduction is an a-priori instinct/intuition that is felt. It

comes before the deduction and the induction. It is felt as a type of

euphoria, or an irritation. These qualities are a sense-certain and synthetic,

and

they are concrete. They have no deductive or inductive reasons, nor are they

calling for such reasons. They have no reason, as they are beyond time and

space.

They are collectively as much as the middle term that escapes reason, leading

to the fallacy of excluded middle, or the mistake of excluding the Holy

Spirit. But you see, error recognition here has a name, it is called

precognition.

It leaves open an active teleology, and so now you see why these feelings can

be so irritating to some that have not yet developed a sufficient degree of

emotional tolerance, a tolerance needed to release most of our Western

misconceptions.

 

It is not that we limit ourselves to our euphoric moods, addicted to our own

self love to the point of blindness. There also is some justification to

embracing our irritations. We may follow our irritations because they have no

reason, we follow them to release the tension thereby permitting greater self

awareness.

 

Our evolution is driven in a direction that increases our self awareness (my

abduction), except that now the self is no longer me or you talking to each

other, it is the Holy Spirit that that escapes our selfish clutches. If you

doubt me, then quietly note the irritation I have caused. The irritation will

find

a way to release itself, perhaps through dialectic, but also through quiet

introspection and even deep meditation. When the irritation is no more, both of

you and me turn out to be the wiser and better for our misunderstandings seen

now as prior mistakes discovered in our abductive logic.

 

Stephen

soon to be author of " Trinity: the Scientific Basis of Vitalism and

Transcendentalism "