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NEFX - Derguely.txt ? This goal would at least appear to evince itself at the point at which no further progress can seemingly be made and where the totality of stages heretofore reaches a point of realized inner synthesis and self-realization, though this conception corresponds to the total maturity of the journeyer and their present capacity for totality of being. ? This may yet advance the conception of the truth, if only in the sense that this realization is a stage in journey of understanding that appears to contradict the stages both before and in front of it, and the nature of which may by turns in the stages of understanding return and then seem obsoleted once again; even if the bare object of the truth itself remains the goal, the progress thereto a sub-goal. ? Yet perhaps in so doing it nonetheless may stumble saliently into the contour of what is by the explication of what truly is not, and the consciousness of this itself as a phase in a journey for the truth yields yet more advanced consciousness. ? Here the thoughtform depends again on external stimuli for further output; in short, a novelty much as it itself seeks to proffer, and also another form of (however non-sentient) external authority. ? For where the base thoughtform for investigation is hollow, so shall too all that it sees will be likewise hollow according to the (however internally consistent) logic employed, and this hollowness can be found in (among other things) the lack of substantial discovery and a neverending cycling critique that bears no fruit. ? It also exhibits the general follies of the default consciousness in the first place. ? After all, the first of those two paths never quite gets at even the drive towards what is true so much as endless cycling critique and a technically productive and active yet ultimately fruitless and disingenuous articulated avoidance of the path towards the true. ? This surely involves not merely direct contradiction of these fallacious thoughtforms, or the inference of truth merely from what which these appear not to be, but rather paradoxically in part the full conscious exploration of these thoughtforms in all their paths, implications, and ramifications. ? Thus here these conceits must be brought to light, identified, explicated, and meditated on in their nature and interconnections, in order that they may be better avoided; a task both afforded and necessitated by the parallax of varying mortal experience in which individuals can by turns better see the folly of others than themselves, and better see that in themselves than others. ? That is, consciousness must set upon the phenomena and concepts thus far had in the probing for the truth with a relentless expectation for any notions to meet burden of logical if not outright phenomenal proof, however esoteric; though consciousness be so blocked (however subconsciously) with the deep-seated presumptions which seem to animate the individual's mind even at this realization of limits and conceits of mortal thought. ? Yet nevertheless bare conviction cannot suffice and does not necessarily bespeak of the principles (if any) underlying the conviction and any basis on which one may profess to "know". ? To supposedly know by outside authority is not necessarily to know by inner conviction even where the validity and content of the thing known is the same, especially seeing as the former means of knowing is fallacious, whereas the latter inheres in the truth of the ultimate that also contains the truth of the thing being "known".