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Topic: Dale Pond
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Knowledge can indeed be a powerful force or tool - in the hands or mind appropriately held and directed. On the other hand knowledge can appear as threatening to some. Or knowledge, freely offered, can be denigrated, invalidated, mocked and trivialized - and the messenger burned, calumniated, flayed and ostracized. Unfortunately this happens more often than not in today's "enlightened" science, political and religious fields. The old alchemists lived in fear of their lives because they possessed knowledge not honored by then current authorities. Because they loved their work, knowledge and humanity they preserved their hard-won knowledge in cryptic drawings and writings. Thus they 'occulted' (hid) their knowledge from plain view. Not to keep it secret but to preserve it from less knowledgeable adversaries. Those who had eyes to see (understand) were able to read those strange looking drawings and extend that 'occult' knowledge. How many realize (have the knowledge) that our current highly productive and lucrative fields of chemistry, metallurgy and similars all came directly from the alchemists' carefully guarded and preserved works? Secrecy, on the other hand, is a method of control and furtherance of some 'system'. For instance, it is well known how the formula for Coca Cola is a carefully guarded secret lest some competitor find it out and become real competition. Should this secret get out the system that is Coca Cola would suffer immensely. The old adage not to "cast pearls before swine" is so appropriate. The revelation of unknown or unacknowledged information can have some very positive effects. The foremost, in my mind, is to reveal to any individual - within their own thinking processes - how they have been and probably currently do operate using false, deceptive or misleading knowledge in their everyday activities. One then, exposed to revelatory knowledge, has an opportunity to throw off false, deceptive and misleading misbeliefs and bring their knowing into a more 'real' posture and performance. So, as they say, "one person's trash can be another person's treasure". |
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