Table of Contents for Root Meanings
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- Root Meanings is a work in progress that will continue to emerge and evolve. All entries are subject to evolution.
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Revision: 15 Aug 2024
Knowing
- Awareness, cognizance.
- Direct knowing is gnosis.
- Direct knowing is immediate.
- Direct knowing is not mediated by the senses or the thinking mind.
- Direct knowing is prior to form and prior to thought.
- Reality must be known directly.
- The Truth must be known directly.
- Indirect knowing is filtered by concepts and/or mediated by the senses.
- Indirect knowing is a mixture of awakeness and unawakeness, clarity and confusion, reality and unreality.
- Indirect knowing of reality is less than complete knowing, and any knowing less than complete knowing allows for infinite distortion. Thus indirect knowing is not knowing truly. Experience is a form of indirect knowing.
- Means of indirect knowing include perception, deduction, and inference.
- Supreme Knowing is the knowing of THE SUPREME by THE SUPREME.
- Apex knowing completely transcends experience.
Sayings:
- “What you believe, you perceive. What you know is so.”
- “When you know all is well, you create all is well.”
- “The way you know you know is the knowing that you have always known.”
- “The truest ways of knowing transcend logic.”
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