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NEFX - Linonpland.txt ? It is we at large who wander and investigate in confusion. ? At such point, much discourse thereabout is at least initially obscure and confined to the self-appointed specialist of deliberate thought. ? The probing itself becomes inadequate for explaining enough universally or in a way that ties all of these cultural threads together. ? It also marks a point at which the longform journey of beings at large towards the attainment to ultimate Lightform reaches an obstacle wherein the cultures once gestating in relative controlled isolation must now transcend the according tradition upon which they grew to function in an earlier phase of the journey towards Lightform, given the early departure that first birthed the Blightgeist; and this entails many sub-periods of struggle. ? This marks a particular evolution in the Saturative form of the Blightgeist in a false and incomplete corrective reaction towards the Erosive form. ? Specifically, in the chase for the ever more minute and calculable according to the most current set of givens, calculations grow more myopic. ? Thus, given that some givens are more deeply rooted in universal right than others, the loss and forgetting of some of these principles and the impetus to their cultural understanding further reveals the limitations of notions of linear consciousness evolution underpinning any age of supposed “learned” historical consciousness. ? These stages do not just entail changes or evolutions in collective thought (bearing in mind that such evolution is not linear and frequently involves the at-least temporary general loss of some aspects of consciousness), but shape at a deep level the world’s very appearance to the thinker. ? These can be roughly referred to as a stage in the attainment of Lightform or in the overcoming of the Blightgeist. ? Specifically, while the phase shifts entail the breaking of collective cultural “givens” of thought and truth, they nonetheless rely to some degree on others to do so, and these shape the formation of thew new thoughtform. ? Furthermore, they each carry within them (in some ways unilaterally) limiting thoughtforms which hamper or detract from the full potential of the phase shift even as that shift completes and yields some kind of gold. ? Each of these major phase shifts has a studiable nature and structure. ? Furthermore, these phases themselves are not pure and simple, but produce or segue into other paths with their own unprecedented logic and effects accumulated from the momentum theretofore, such as in collective cultural “movements” (often unconscious and borne of both cumulative effect of mass cultural conditioning, necessity, and even intergenerational habit) and the convergence of extant formed cultures into one. ? Indeed a sign of this can lie in the prescient prophesy in such an intermediate stage’s infancy of the increasing evidence of this folly to us at large and to its necessary overcoming, which may occur sooner or later yet which can and must be brought about sooner and more effectively through conscious engagement thereabout. ? For it is often to some degree the full articulation and seeing through of a particular folly, such as the dependence for advancement upon mere material or technological invention and dissemination, that allows the heralding of a higher collective consciousness — even though it yet behooves us to not take this eventual resolution as inevitable, given, or something to be waited for amidst all the carnage that ensues when we do not work to bring the resolution about. ? Rather, within this dissonance lies another quest for a synthesis arising out of the seeing through of the current gap. ? Yet this gap is not to be resolved by the forced return to an imperfectly remembered and rendered stage of the society, assuming that would even be possible. ? This may arise in part from a tendency towards specialization and the forgetting of the contiguousness of things and of various disciplines, which if unchecked can even curdle into misguided enmity, such as between various arts and sciences. ? For this may be the actual culture, the deeper culture, the shadow culture, or an inchoate one yet to take the more obvious one’s place. ? One must strive to look within and below the machinations of an even seemingly functional culture for what could be added or revived.

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