7 Foolproof Keys to Perfect Thinking - Are You Ready to Accomplish?

Yes, starting now, you can freely:

• Master your grasp of reality,
• Find balance in today's cacophony of sensory input, and
• Think your way forward into higher states of mind!

Anti-intellectualism is on the rise, where being banal and superficial allows one to meld homogeneously with the crowds.

But you don’t really want to be like that, do you?

I don’t think so!

In our modern society we constantly experience the clash of ideas and ideologies, distractions and diversions. People are oft so blindly sure of themselves that they needlessly and thoughtlessly bring emotion into arguments, rather than just allowing cool-headed logic to assess facts and factors.

And we won’t even bring up politics or religion!

So here are some insights and perspectives to allow your mind to expand naturally. They are yours to use freely, there is no law against thinking... YET!

The 7 Ancient & Noble Liberal Arts

The word “liberal” has many meanings today, but originally it simply meant free, as in liberated. The Liberal Arts were those which a free person required to be an active member of intelligent society.

These Arts consisted of three tools of thinking (Trivium - grammar, logic and rhetoric), and four fundamental sciences (Quadrivium - arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy), as applied through our five senses.

However, these terms must be acknowledged in a much deeper sense than modern word usage implies.

It’s my thesis that most people don’t really think, they just think they’re thinking because they’re watching their characterological reactions in real time. We have all been programmed genetically and mimetically since birth, run through indoctrination centers, it’s inevitable.

Nonetheless, we can regain our inherent power by taking control of our own minds.

One esoteric symbol of the path of the ancient mystery schools is the 3,4,5 triangle theorem of Pythagoras, solvable with the non-linear square roots. This ancient theorem represents more than a mere math calculation. It was a metaphor for higher roots of knowledge beyond the apparent. This is what linked it to the mystery schools where Pythagoras perhaps learned it from. This theorem was known in the first Babylonian Dynasty, some fifteen hundred years before the time of Pythagoras, so he certainly wasn't the first proponent.

The deeper sense of the 3, 4, 5 triangle is of a relationship between our five senses and how we interpret the world through the Trivium and Quadrivium.

3 Precision Tools to Perfect Thinking (Trivium)

The Trivium is a process of systematic critical thinking utilized in freeing (liberating) oneself to analyze reality properly through the input of the five senses.

The 3 tools are: Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric, functioning in that specific and requisite order:

• Grammar: Knowledge - Who, What, Where & When; the building blocks to discerning facts of reality
• Logic / Reasoning: Understanding - Why; establishing valid relationships between facts; work of logic is proof
• Rhetoric: Wisdom - the application of Knowledge & Understanding; provides the How of a subject

Grammar is not only the mechanics of language, which is essential, but it is also the use of the language to define information and factual knowledge of objects we encounter in reality.

Logic is the mechanics of processing the data gained through grammatical assessment of reality, removing contradictions through identification of false arguments and analysis of conflicting data, thereby gaining an understanding of the factual knowledge of reality.

Rhetoric is the use of language to express the knowledge and understanding of reality, to transmit intelligence, to persuade people to a particular perspective.

In simple terms we can think of this as Input => Processing => Output

4 Dynamic Measures of Objective Reality (Quadrivium)

But what is objective reality? What is it that we seek to define?

The Quadrivium consists of four Arts, which consist of that which is able to be assessed through the Trivium and the Five Senses:

• Arithmetic - numbers,
• Geometry - numbers in space,
• Music - numbers in time, and
• Astronomy - numbers in space and time.

We must understand the ancient modes of consciousness to truly understand what is meant by these terms. For example Arithmetic is not merely the mechanical use of numbers, but also their qualitative aspects. Let us take the number five (5), we can count the five fingers on our hands. But we can also cut an apple or certain other fruit horizontally and see the pentagonal pattern:

Which is also seen in the orbital resonance of Venus with Earth:

So the noble sense of five includes the relationships of phi (Golden Ratio) and hence five is oft spelt in the Quadrivium as "Phive". This is what is meant by the higher sense of numbers.

Quadrivium Geometry deals with subjects such as the Platonic Solids, those geometric solids with equal sides and faces, only five are exist in objective reality.

Music, or harmonic analysis, is about numbers in time.

In Geometry the Platonic solids can be nested so that zero space is left between.

In Music the intervals do not fit perfectly. This gives rise to two modes of tuning, just intonation and equal temperament. Just intonation, or natural harmonic progression, gives rise to a spiral, and equal temperament being developed for keyboard instruments so they could be played equally well (or badly, as tonally sensitive music lovers claim) while providing a fixed scale for all instruments. The later is in present use.

Astronomy is the natural science of the observation and notation of celestial objects. Clearly the ancients where quite up on this, seeing the field of archeoastronomy gaining insights wherever ancient megalithic ruins are found around the world.

Using our Five Senses we may, out of this whole process of the 7 Liberal Arts, reach the highest understandings of reality possible with our biological hardware and software. Perhaps we can even achieve a grand sense of cosmic orientation, for some even a spiritual proprioceptivity in the realm of knowledge instead of belief.

Modern discursive consciousness, on the other hand, puts an embedded status quo logic first, before proper grammar and is therefore, by the ancient codes, incapable of fully assessing reality properly ... though the modern materialist will certainly argue they can by rejecting anything which cannot be weighed or measured.

This has led us into a world laced with artificial substances when we could be deriving all we require for healthy progressive living from the natural world itself.

This is not to discard the great triumphs which the scientific endeavors of the last few centuries have brought us, but rather to place them in a larger sense of being, one that takes life as the primary force of existence.

The modern scientific paradigm assumes that the electrical particles it manufactures in its high energy experiments are the bread and butter of our experiential reality. That is a belief system, though certainly one of arguable validity considering the mass of practical scientific knowledge gained thereby, such as the electronic equipment used to research, write and post this article.

We are now thought to live in a world of quantum uncertainty.

However, we must not rest on our laurels and past accomplishments. Great discoveries await the active mind.

It is our responsibility and duty to continue to learn about this universe we find ourselves immersed within. We own it to our children and those that come after them.

There are certainly a wide range of approaches to understanding, some based on definable facts, some on beliefs. One thing for sure, following the process of the Seven Liberal Arts one may gain a better understanding of reality while perfecting the processes of thought and analysis.

Further sources of information:

• http://www.woodenbooks.com/
• https://www.claaonline.com/
• http://www.triviumeducation.com/
• Google can be your friend, but
• https://duckduckgo.com is a better friend!!!

Written for & posted first in Steemit by @alkemix