Time Binding
From: holderlin66
Date: Fri Apr 23, 2004 6:22 pm
Subject: Time Binding
"So there came a time, perhaps, when
for some species [humans?] the rate at which learning was increased,
reached such a pitch that suddenly a completely new thing happened:
things could be learned by one individual animal,
passed on to another, and another fast enough that it was not
lost to the race. Thus became possible an accumulation of knowledge
of the race.
"This has been called time-binding. I
don't know who first called it this. At any rate, we have here
[in this hall] some samples of those animals, sitting here trying
to bind one experience to another, each one trying to learn from
the other."
It was Alfred O. Korzybski who first called
the phenomenon "time-binding". He developed the concept
and named it in his first book, "Manhood of Humanity",
in 1921. It is a precursor to his magnum opus, "Science
and Sanity" which I have reviewed elsewhere in the SCR.
I searched my copy for a short definition of time-binding by
its innovator and I found on page 303 these three life- dimensions
or dimensionality of Korzybski:
I. Plants ---- basic energy-binders
II. Animals --- space-binders
III. Humans ---- time-binders
"Now, it is, of course, perfectly clear
that, according to the foregoing conceptions or definitions,
the old zoological conception of man as a species of animal is
false . . ."
AOK makes its clear that the capacity for
time-binding is unique to human beings, who while they can also
bind energy and bind space as animals do, animals cannot bind
time. He says, "It is a fact that use of the same term
'animal' to denote the members of both classes,
--- men and beasts alike..."
Praises to The Southern Cross Reveiw again;
http://southerncrossreview.org/33/letters.htm
Bobby Matherene, one of my favorite guys,
besides Frank, ye old gnarly nugget, brings something of the
above as a fresh conceptual beauty.
Why people should love, fear and hate Spiritual
Science is because such stunning concepts can be recognized and
Steiner wove them together in such plentitude and cohesion that
when we see other scientists weaving such things together the
Michael School does what it loves best. It leaps for joy!
I. Plants ---- basic energy-binders
II. Animals --- space-binders
III. Humans ---- time-binders
I really don't wish to explore all that those
who never studied Spiritual Science try to get away with when
they lob criticism of such feeble dimensions that have been lobbed
at it from certain quarters recently. Rather with these three
ideas from the normal science community, the advanced doorway
into Goethean Spiritual Science opens like "Open Sesame"
and Allah Baba and the forty thieves. Bingo, the secret chamber
door opens and your in the Great Hall amongst the community and
wonders of Angels and the School of Michael, the School of the
Romantics.
It is sad if you have to remain outside the
Great Hall of the Michael School looking in at all the wonderful
things going on there. It is how thought and Soul and Spirit
truly operate in a real world and by putting aside your attempts
to claw your way in, try to think what these three concepts mean.
You can't enter, as in The Way, the Truth and the Light, if you
refuse the Truth aspect inside yourself. Christ is a Fact, because
if you respond to the Truth in yourself, not the dead letter
and dead concept, your in. Throwing, bricks, bottles and bombs
at the doors ain't gonna get you in. It is understanding The
Etheric, Astral and I AM of Earth and Man that gets you in. It
gets you into you. Because you know the Truth and denial is not
gonna get you in.
The final concept, one we have been concerned
with here, on this list, deals with TIME-BINDERS. Some people
live in Time-Blinders. If I speak of Racism day in and day out
and use 19th century dialectical materialism to dissect reality,
the door to the castle won't open. You can be clever as windy
kite, diving, soaring, diverting..but having your own I AM feel
alive with Truth, not so fast. It won't happen.
I have respected the Daniel Diana dialogue
because Diana is wrestling with things. While another has barred
the door, dead bolted themselves inside a dead intellect and
refuse to see what is going on in the world. You can get a whole
army of people who think this way, but are they right? They are
not. They are fighting tooth and nail not to let their own inner
being be stunned into humility when you face the I AM as Paul
said, Face to Face.
If I come to the stunned reality of how Man
remembers and binds Time in himself and Time and Memory follow
humans over the threshold of death into a life tableau review,
and the Gods lift our Time Experience and I AM experience out
of Time to be placed back in Time, to be re-inserted in Time
from the apparent TimeLess, we come to what has been harped on
incessantly here. Reincarnation and the I AM are spiritual and
physical realities. But this merely requires a sort of education
free from the barbed wire of what you think you know against
what is even more interesting, what is.
Barring doors and windows because everyone
else in your neighborhood has barred doors and windows means
that your thinking is going to stagnate. I have called attention
to stagnant etheric theory where doing, encountering and thinking,
let alone the amount of sharing that has been done on this list,
stagnates in pride strewn, luciferic intellectual denial. Denial
of what Doctors, Teachers, Artists, Scientists have been stunned
by, is barring the door to your own self.
We want children and adults to open their
own doors. What good is it if you don't. Therefore it is obvious
one has to put up a damn good fight. This is admirable. Saul
who became Paul put up a hell of a fight. So, if the door opens,
it is you and Mr. Truth that opens the door. If it remains closed,
it is you and Mr. Denial that has barred the doors and windows
shut. Proof, is everywhere for the heart and mind, but fear and
denial are true hurdles of the 5th Post Atlantean experience.
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