Hierarchy Index Cards - R
Card_R_01-08. Reading RadhakrishnanMabel’s task: 1. Take people through the (necessary) anti-religious phase to the reborn religious phase. [Note here the ‘precariousness’ The world is in its mess because people have evolved beyond ‘unconscious religion’, but ...
Card_R_02-05 reading RadhakrishnanCivilisation a conspiracy against our awareness of our utter, utter, utter dependence in all things. Yes, all: even in our unawareness & awareness we’re dependent.Card_R_02-07We have a precious faculty — the sense of wonder, mys...
Radhakrishnan; Raine; Ramakrishna; Ramsey; Raven.Index-Card-R-05-08 DEH Man into cell; cell into manCard_R_05-10. Notes on ‘The unknown world inside
Redgrove; Renan; Renouvier; RichardsCard_R_08-20I use words to make you see or feel what I see or feel. I ascend to Man-level in using words. We communicate, we have common picture-heads as in Man This is inexpressibly wonderful. Language is the very life of Man.
Richards; Richardson; Card_R_09-13 DEH: You don’t have to examine yourself in the mirror in the morning, or test out your memories, to realise that sleep has not broken the self’s continuity.Index-Card-R-09-19 Diagram
RichardsonCard_R_10-03If organism reacts as a whole then when your m’s react, the cell reacts; when your cells react, you react; when you react, society reacts; & so on to the Whole. But the Whole cannot be subjected to any stimulus but itself. At this level actio...
RichardsonIndex-Card-R-12-06 DiagramIndex-Card-R-12-09,-10 DiagramIndex-Card-R-12-18The Self, God, having split up, & having opposed itself to itself, learns reconciliation with itself by increasing love & harmony. Love is the breaking of the veil which hides ou...
RichardsonIndex-Card-R-15-20 DEH You control a part of your picture head! You say it is you. And at the centre there is a nothing, a question-mark.Odd that some of your picture head you can move. No idea how you do it. Why can’t you move the sun? Because you haven’t...
Rivers; Robertson; Robinson; Index-Card-R-17-04 DEH Amputation or non-attachment is essential. Tools etc are amputatable but still people don’t take advantage, & so like the lobster become dependent. Growth is not enough. By itself it is degeneration. With correla...
RoyceCard_R_20-02 DEH The problems, the things going wrong, the tragedy, of your world — these are you & yours. The problems are internal to you & your solution of them is internal.Index-Card-R-20-05 Date: 12.44
Card-R-22-07-RoyceDH: This is Mabel’s method, to draw C.S. out, revealing to it its own thought.
RoyceCard_R_25-01The wonder of it. The thrill of being eternally unique & valuable & indispensable, for ever an element in the Whole’s pattern.As Royce says, to realise this difference, this uniqueness, this separation from the Whole for the Whole’s sake bot...
RoyceIndex-Card-R-26-06 DiagramIndex-Card-R-26-06 DEH There is only one route upwards. But there are many routes downwards.
Royce; Index-Card-R-2716 DEH In the present you do not exist. You only exist as embracing time. But how much time? Where can we set the limit? Nowhere. To be a man you must be as old as a man — & as young. A man is millions of years old.
RussellIndex-Card-R-34-05 DEH: C.S says inference of mind in men & animals is logical, but inference of mind in atom is not. I say inference of mind in anything is doubtful logically. Man you are observing may be an exceptionally well-made robot.
RussellIndex-Card-R-37-02 DEH I think Russell is right…Index-Card-R-37-20 Diagram of object seen from all around with question mark in centre.
RussellSense Object, Space, Perspectives, Alice, & the Centre.Index-Card-R-38-20 DEH R [Russell] is right or rather half right. Science & phil. to progress had to become ethically neutral. But there will come (has come?) a time when to make further progress they...
Card_R_40-01 Reading Russell.Descartes “I think, therefore I am” should have been simply: “there is thinking”. He finds doubt going on & says : There is doubt, doubt is a form of thought, therefore there is thought. “I think” assumes too much. Why should...
RussellCard_R_41-20 How can the centre be anything if you can’t get away from it for it to be anything?
Index-Card-R-43-01 DiagramCard-R-43-02DH: … what you are depends on where we see you from.Card-R-43-04DH: Thus in reply to Russell we can say: the graduated system of changing appearances of the object at different distances from it are all true views of the object. E...
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