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Jackie 12 January 2012
Your quote: “The intellect can open the door to intuition and wisdom, or it can seal it shut.” Can you expand a bit more in how it can seal it shut?
David
When the mind is closed due to having a fixed opinion, then it is shut from learning anything new. This is what happens to everyone. Religion is very good at shutting down a person’s mind, making them so certain that they know the right way and that the other religions are wrong. Then their intellectual mind is closed to learning new things.
The subversive purpose is of course, in religions case, to prevent anyone from thinking too much and thus seeing the flaws in what they have been told. This is why I say that the greatest poison is a fixed opinion and the only opinion anyone should have is that we should not have any fixed opinions. In this way, the mind is always open to learn new things and the person can expand. The caveat is to use wisdom to discern what is valid to learn and what is rubbish or a trick to twist you into following a wrong path.
When the mind is closed due to having a fixed opinion, then it is shut from learning anything new. This is what happens to everyone. Religion is very good at shutting down a person’s mind, making them so certain that they know the right way and that the other religions are wrong. Then their intellectual mind is closed to learning new things.
The subversive purpose is of course, in religions case, to prevent anyone from thinking too much and thus seeing the flaws in what they have been told. This is why I say that the greatest poison is a fixed opinion and the only opinion anyone should have is that we should not have any fixed opinions. In this way, the mind is always open to learn new things and the person can expand. The caveat is to use wisdom to discern what is valid to learn and what is rubbish or a trick to twist you into following a wrong path.
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