 don't
believe that this adequately explains where the exploratory and active
aspect comes in. If you are following me well however, it may be clear
to you. It requires an active pursuit of the desired model. While all
forms of mysticism and related practices can be looked upon as being based
on a model of reality, the model is not necessarily directly stated but
must usually be inferred. In general, various mystical practices and related
social practices developed over centuries within their parent societies
and the very base concepts of the cultures in which they formed would
be known to all and not necessarily stated. These base concepts would
constitute a large, normally unstated part of the model of reality within
which they operated. I believe a very pertinent comment is given by the
author Douglas Adams in the radio and television shows and later novels
starting with "the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy". In this
series of books, he tells an illustrative sub-story of a space faring
human culture that was sufficiently advanced to create planet sized computers.
Their ultimate creation was designed to generate the answers to "life,
the universe and everything". After this gigantic computer calculated
literally for generations of the lives of its builders, it finally gave
out its answer at the projected future time. The priestly class which
had arisen to tend the computer anxiously awaited the answer. And the
answer was: 42! |
