Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00122)

Hi all of you,

The following will almost only
interest the more earnest students of Theosophy.

Conditioning

Part 2 of 3:

A further complication is that most extant human systems are
currently projected by people who fail to make any distinction
between spiritual feelings and socio-psychological ones; or
between emotion or spirituality.
Until comparatively recently this was not a problem for such 
people. Most peoples lived in mutually exclusive communities,
isolated from one another. Social science and psychology were
in their infancy or excluded, and in general, multicultural comunities
had little access to single-culture ones, which latter 
effectively dominated the world.
But a new institution, unprecedented in its spread and urgency,
arose when the discovery and wide publication of the phenomena 
of conditioning and indoctrination. When confronted with 
this knowledge, few extant cultures could explain why conditioning
was necessary, or why so many well-established belief-systems 
were indistinguishable from 'brainwashing' ones.
Looking at the history and development of belief-systems, it is
not hard to perceive that they always deteriorate in their flexibility
and capacity to understand. They also, and as a consequence,
tend to rely more and more upon authoríty and
over-simplification. None can be said to have guarded effectively
against conditioning. The true Theosophists, as the published 
record over centuries shows, have worked against the mechanicality
of conditioning, but have until recently lacked appropriate
conditions under which to insist that this factor be taken into
consideration.
    

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Maybe Blavatsky forgot to teach this in her Secret Doctrine ?

Feel free to comment or do your best



from
M. Sufilight with peace and love...

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