Hierarchy Index Cards - S

Card-S-06-06, -08 DiagramCard_S-06-09CS The great difficulty is that your mind, unlike your body, is invisible.A. But it isn’t invisible. I can see your mind — or a good deal of it! It is what you are looking at & if I look at what you see I see your mind. When ...
SchopenhauerCard-S-08-02, -06, -08 diagramCard-S-08-09. Quotes Schopenhauer and then comments:348 “the life of the individual is at bottom only borrowed from that of the species” DEH: This is pretty good for a pre-Darwinian
SchopenhauerCard-S-09-05When you will the Earth to revolve, as you now will your hand to write, you will be the revolving Earth. The Earth-will & the Earth-seen-from outside are the same thing given in 2 ways. To become Earth you must switch from one aspect to the o...
Sellars;Card-S-12-04DH: Make this point about Mabel. C.S. asks: Is it true? Answer: No. Only the whole truth is true. But Mabel — all of her — goes into the making of the whole truth — all of her — even her most futile errors are indispensable to the truth!Card-...
SherringtonCard-S-16-04 DEH The master of the body is not a cell. The cells’ master is a man. And men’s master is not a human Dictator, it is Society. Governance there must be — a supreme ruler: but this Ruler must be & is of a different order altogether. This...
Silsby; Smart; Smith; Card-S-19-05 DEH Who sees? I say Society sees with you as its organ. Life also sees thus & Earth. C.S. objects: say it you who see. But do you see? Does not your visual apparatus, brain & eye, see, & not you as a whole? Who sees? It is ...
SpencerCard-S-21-04DH: You are alive? Granted. Then you are the whole! For only the whole is really alive. Not even Life is alive by itself.Card-S-21-05 Date Shoeberry 17.9.45Card-S-21-06 diagramCard-S-21-12 Date: Bury 26.10.45
Card-S-24-12A new science — the science of actual experience behind the verbal camouflage, the science of what words mean to men — is really necessary & of course almost impossible owing to the fact that the data can only be communicated from individual to indiv...
Card-S-27-08DH: We must realise panpsychism, not merely accept it. For instance, when I look at a patch of blue colour, am I not appreciating what individuals have (albeit unconsciously) to say to me?Our external aspect — our contribution to the existence of other mon...
Stapledon — Card-S-28-11 “Stars are living organisms…”Card-S-28-19 DEH Note S’s [Stapledon’s] unashamed “persistent contemplation of myself”. Do not be ashamed of this but stress it again & again. For it is utterly different from self-occupation or e...
Stapledon.Card-S-29-08 Stapledon: Star maker: “It was a cosmical substance in which any individual spirit must be mysteriously at once an absolute self & a mere fragment of the whole.”DEH The last sentence is my groundplan: your alternating aspects.Card-S-29-16 ...
Card-S-34-01Quotes Stapledon — treating others as Selves.These notes also refer to chapters 25 and 26, whereas in the final book there are only 24 chapters.Card-S-34-12 DEH I would say that the mind of the nebula is existent now, & is basic to your mind. That your...
Strachey; StreeterCard-S-37-01I recognise that you are different from & more than the shapes, colours, & sounds which are my perception of you. There is a tendency for me to forget you are really a picture-head, but on the whole I allow for that fact in practice...
Streeter; Card-S-38-04DEH: At last I have the real doctrine of diags: there is nothing invalid about them, or artificial, for, if human mind needs them, and thinks that way, then diags are structural, not ornaments or obstacles, in the edifice of thought. If I am oblige...
Card-S-39-01 Date: 18.5.45Card-S-39-03Streeter: “If my conscious mind believes in God but I am for ever anxious for the morrow, it is because my subconscious mind does not believe. The subconscious mind is always learning from the conscious, but it both learns and for...
Sullivan; Card-S-42-01 DEH This is entirely wrong… This is a good illustration of how false the modern outlook can be.Card-S-42-15 date: 6.8.45Card-S-42-17 DEH I must study in detail the law of perspective.

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