Learning By Forgetting

Probing the world outside of us produces far less of a realisation of the true nature of reality than the equivalent effort made towards probing the world inside of us.

A substantial effort in our modern age has been placed towards trying to find answers by investigating the world outside of us in variety of different and imaginative ways. It has become a notion which is extremely prevalent today because those efforts made to date seems to have produced a number of results which we typically characterize as an ‘advancement’, and are therefore something that we consider to be fundamentally ‘positive’ in nature. We often directly attribute the development of many of the technologies we use on a daily basis with this endeavour. The particular word we use to name this process is not really important, but for simplicity’s sake we could generally refer to it as the ‘scientific process’.

We then think that if we are able to continue these investigations, each investigation producing another piece of information which we can contribute towards our total understanding of the cosmos, we will accumulate more information and a greater understanding of the cosmos, generally. A line of reasoning based upon logic would then have us increasing our efforts and intensity towards this process, thinking that this would result in the process progressing much faster and further. Having engaged with this process for some time now though, these types of investigations being prolific in society today, such efforts do not seem to have resulted in us arriving at a complete understanding of the cosmos.

In fact, although we may think that we are more ‘advanced’ today than we have ever been before, if we take a look at things in a more holistic manner we will start to see that our use of the word ‘advanced’, and therefore our understanding of this concept, does not necessarily directly translate across to the notion that such a movement produces generally positive outcomes that produce increasing degrees of harmony and unity within society and the collective as a whole. The whole process that has just been described here is now arriving at a crescendo of sorts which must be resolved. The point being, that the next stage in the process cannot possibly be moved through by simply repeating the same process that we have done to date continuously; something different is required.

We take a brief moment in this relatively short article to look at what an alternative approach towards this process could look like. Therefore, based on what has just been said, it is at this point in our discussion that we must stop and take a look at things from a different perspective, in order to be able to gain the necessary level of insight that can help us to move into this next stage. What if there was another way to approach this problem? What if the way in which we have approached this process already up until now has unknowingly created some blockages for us that hinder our ability to progress much further? Many of us struggle to see it, but it is the blocks that have become established and which already exist in our conscious perception, both individually and collectively, which fundamentally change the way that we engage with the scientific process from the start.