phenomena human mind interpretation traditional this assumes that the phenomena are unchangeable...

phenomena human mind

interpretation

traditional

This assumes that the phenomena are unchangeablehave always been thereevolve of themselvesare seen differently by different cultures at different times

Barfield


interpretation

traditional

“the unrepresented”

“particles”

phenomena

figuration

Barfield


interpretation

traditional

“the unrepresented”

“particles”

Where are the minds that make the phenomena?

“particles” phenomena

figuration“the unrepresented”

“Participation”

They are also part of the phenomena.

They participate in the phenomena

The relationship of the human mind towards the phenomenon

is of the same nature as the relationship of the phenomenon towards the human mind

The Unrepresented lies behind them both, equally



“Participation”

But modern man has separated his mind from

the phenomena

phenomena“particles”


alpha-thinking

This is alpha-thinking



alpha-thinking

This is alpha-thinkingBeta thinking is the nextstage in awareness,

seeing the whole picture



alpha-thinking

Some consequences....

Beta thinking is the nextstage in awareness,

seeing the whole picture


figuration

Alpha-thinking tends to destroy participation




alpha-thinking

The more the human mind studiesthe phenomena, the more it becomes aware of the phenomena as existing apart fromthe mind.



figuration



alpha-thinking

Alpha-thinking is necessary for science;but we continually forget that a distinction between the mind and the phenomena “outside the mind” is false...




alpha-thinking

Alpha-thinking makes us forget that the phenomena are collective representations, and as such correlative to human consciousness (Barfield 82)

Some consequences for language:



alpha-thinking

It is only the unrepresented which is independent of collective human consciousness and therefore of human language (Barfield 82)




alpha-thinking

The relationship between words and things: the phenomena are a result of figuration, of human consciousness –as are our names for the them.




alpha-thinking

The relationship between words and things: One of the ways in which figuration occurs is the use of language




alpha-thinking

“Speech did not arise as the attempt of man to imitate, master or explain ´nature´; for speech and nature came into being along with one another.” 123

Some consequences....Some consequences for language:



alpha-thinking

A complete lack of participation leads usto view the phenomena as real andunchanging, not the result of figurationby the human mind.

Some consequences for phenomena:

phenomena alpha-thinking

Phenomena seen in this way as facts or truths are, for Barfield, idols; and belief in them is idolatry.

idol

idle

… something unreal, useless, idle ...

Idol, c.1250, "image of a deity as an object of (pagan) worship," from O.Fr. idole, from L.L. idolum "image (mental or physical), form," used in Church L. for "false god," from Gk. eidolon "appearance," later "mental image, apparition, phantom," also "material image, statue," from eidos "form“. Figurative sense of "something idolized" is first recorded 1562. Meaning "a person so adored" is from 1591; hence idolize (1598).From Douglas Harper’s etymonline.com

idle, O.E. idel "empty, void, useless," common W.Gmc. (cf. O.S. idal, O.Fris. idel "empty, worthless," O.Du. idil, Ger. eitel "vain, useless, mere, pure"), of unknown origin.

http://www.etymonline.com/


Gk. eidolon "appearance," later "mental image, apparition, phantom," also "material image, statue," from eidos "form“.

Barfield´s ‘Saving the Appearances’ is a translation from Greek σωζειν τα φαινομενα, sōzein ta fainomena,‘to save/justify/explain the appearances’ –

- to hypothesize about the phenomena - to create a framework for talking about them - speculate on what we seeNOT to discover the “truth”...

σωζειν τα φαινομενα

• Ptolemy: a geocentric universe• Copernicus: a heliocentric universe

... both are hypothesesone hypothesis, ; many hypotheses

• Both are different ways of participating in the phenomena


•So why did the Church make so much fuss?Galileo was not forbidden to teach the Copernican system as a hypothesis.

He was forbidden to teach it as actual reality: he could teach it, but not that it was TRUE.


• The Church did not teach that the Ptolemaic system was real; only that it “saved appearances” as a hypothesis

• The Church did not maintain that Ptolemy was right, and Copernicus wrong;

• but that the truth was not discernible behind these appearences, and it was not permissible to search for such a truth.

• Science must not supercede God.

“Adoro Te Devote” – the Catholic version

Adoro te devote, latens Deitas,quae sub his figuris vere latitas:tibi se cor meum totum subiicit,quia te contemplans totum deficit.

Tomas Aquinas, the original version

Adoro devote, latens veritas,te quae sub his formis vere latitas:tibi se cor meum totum subiicitquia te contemplans totum deficit.

Text and translation at http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/AdoroTe.html

http://www.preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Hymni/AdoroTe.html

With Aquinas, we see a great movement into alpha-thinking;Adoro devote, latens veritas,te quae sub his formis vere latitas(Note the striking reversed echo, indicating originality)Hidden TRUTH i.e. not a hypothesis!

Thee official version removes TRUTH and substitutes the Godhead:

Adoro te devote, latens Deitas,quae sub his figuris vere latitas

I adore thee deeply hidden truthtruly hiding beneath these formsMy heart surrenders itself unto theefor it cannot begin to fathom thee


“particles”


Slhal I camrope tehe to a sumemr's day?Tohu art mroe leovly and mroe tpamertee:Ruogh widns do skahe the dlnirag bdus of May,And semumr's lasee htah all too shrot a dtae:Simmeote too hot the eye of hveaen sinhes,And oeftn is his glod cleoximopn dmimed,And eevry fiar form fiar sommetie dcieenls,By cnache, or nruate's cghaning csroue ueritmmnd: But thy enteral suemmr shlal not fdae,Nor lsoe pseioosssn of taht fiar tohu ow'st,Nor slhal dtaeh barg tohu wnad'rset in his shdae,Wehn in eentral lneis to tmie tohu gorw'st,So lnog as men can brahtee or eeys can see,So lnog lvies tihs, and tihs gevis lfie to tehe.

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