Theos-Talk Archives (July 1997 Message tt00024)

Mark Kusek:

> The plain fact of the matter is that our puny little egos grow
> dreadfully unconfortable with our own ignorance.  We can't stand
> it to simply say "I don't know and acknowledge the mystery that
> gives rise to, sustains and surrounds us"
>
> God forbid.  Anything but that.  Quick, somebody toss me an
> explanation!

Two relevant sayings:

The more you know, the more you know you don't know.  He who says
does not know, he who knows does not say.

I must say that I have found the "unknowingness" threshold of the
A.R.E.  leadership to be much higher than in the mainstream
Theosophical movement.  Nobody seems uncomfortable with
acknowledging that there are mistakes in the Cayce readings, or
with admitting that we don't really understand how he did what he
did.  Whereas it is still very dangerous for a Theosophist to
publicly state that HPB ever made a mistake, factual or ethical.
(Voice of experience!)

There's a whole stream of Korean Buddhist literature (so I've
read) focused on the need to acquire "don't know" mind.  In
Jungian terms, I'd say that judgment is excessively dominant over
perception when people get obsessed with figuring everything out
in neat hierarchies based on absolute authorities.