>>132There is power which dominates over society, existing within symbols of its own, surrounding ourselves with mirages and staged personality complexes, infusing itself within psychosocial discourse. This suggests that there does exist old knowledge, utilized to constrain society within aesthetic puppetry, mobilized in degrees to suppress collective potential.
I think sites and research centers, such as sacred-texts, hold useful data and information, ideas from which you can draw conclusions and interesting studies. I do not think that true knowledge is ultimately unattainable. However, it is my belief that absolute truthful knowledge exists within a mirage of its own, a representation of truth that makes sense to us given other conditions of governing knowledge- e.g. the notions of moral justification, our conceptions of linguistic structure, the dominating social themes within our culture, etc.
I would suggest that any modern book can be dived into and research will produce beneficial information. To what purpose it exists and sustains itself ultimately decides its wide-spread utility. I do think that historical interests have restrained knowledge before, see: Library of Alexandria. Its tale is a strange tale indeed, with many alternating stories and approaches to its destruction. This suggests that it was used as a pinnacle of information and was controlled by dominating powers in order to create a presentable dilemma- centralize all "world knowledge" within one locality, and then spread stories of its eventual attacking and systemic burning while preserving the desired narrative. To me, this theoretical scenario doesn't differ too much from the systemic reconditioning undergone vis a vis the Council of Nicea, and other manipulating paradigms, such as Mao's structural engineering. Society tends to reconstruct truth using standardizations upheld by dominating institutions. In many ways, our Internet is our Library of Alexandria.
>>133>nothing we read about ancienct religion or true spirituality is going to be free of christian dross, try to sift it out as much as possible. Don't take anything at face value.I agree with you to a degree, but disagree with you to another. I think Christianity, largely composed of p
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