People often misidentify knowledge for understanding. Some people know many things, but they don’t understand anything.
It was a time when people desperately collected diplomas and certifications, and some still do. It allows them and other people to call them experts or specialists.
Gurdjieff noted: “Knowledge is one thing, understanding is another thing. People often confuse these concepts and do not Read more The squares of understanding
The learning process should begin with unlearning and discharging most of the ideas you have accumulated about Tarot, Astrology, Numerology, Alchemy, and Kabbalah. Most likely, at least some of the things you think you know are incomplete or inaccurate.
If you are a newbie, you are in luck! You have the chance Read more The learning process
The knowledge of now should always be superior to the knowledge of then – as long as the individual and the humanity in its whole evolve and have been not willingly hijacked on the path of regress.
At a personal level, pretty often, we sabotage ourselves. At the collective level, we Read more The knowledge of now
According to the dictionaries, reset means setting, adjusting, or fixing in a new or different way. In my opinion, the “reset” is not a one-time procedure, but it is happing planned and gradually for thousand years. However, the evidence of the previous resets was smoothly removed made it impossible to trace. What individuals such as Klaus Schwab today call “the great reset” is only part of a much larger plan and another phase of the same programme. It is impossible to understand the plan because we only see its fragments, apparently unrelated events, and we lack perspective.
The thing I noticed is that often Read more The plagues that threaten our way of thinking
Someone sent me a link to an article about Alchemy, the internet is full of them. Platitudes, I would say, stereotypes, inconsistencies and half-wisdoms for housewife whiches and weekend wizards. As with all the other occult and esoteric topics, most of the available materials are rubbish fake commercial products. The commonly accessible materials are ‘exoteric’ knowledge, as opposed to ‘esoteric’ knowledge, which, by definition, is not at the reach of everyone.
Without an understanding of these matters, it is impossible to discern between fake and real knowledge.
On the other hand, as Gurdjieff noted, “Knowledge is one thing; understanding is another thing. (…) People often confuse these concepts and do not clearly grasp what is the difference between them. Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being. Understanding is the resultant of knowledge and being. And knowledge and being must not diverge too far, otherwise, understanding will prove to be far removed from either. At the same time, the relation of knowledge to being does not change with a mere growth of knowledge. It changes only when the being grows simultaneously with knowledge. In other words, understanding grows only with the growth of being.”
First of all, understanding is interior, while knowledge is exterior – similar to the ‘esoteric’ and ‘exoteric’ concepts.
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The degradation of morals is a perversion of the will. The degradation of knowledge is a perversion of the intellect. Read more Morality and Knowledge
“Knowledge is one thing, understanding is another thing.
People often confuse these concepts and do not clearly grasp what is the difference between them.
Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge to being. Understanding is the resultant of knowledge and being. And knowledge and being must not diverge too far, otherwise understanding will prove to be far removed from either. Read more Knowledge and Understanding
