AT THE FRONTIERS OF ULTIMATE KNOWLEDGE



The understanding dawned on me that I was looking at fields of knowledge in which relationships between various forms of knowledge, different ways in which the human mind organises its powers in its study of the universe, were conjoined in a unity that enables one to move simultaneously within various perspectives, perspectives distinguished from each other by their stimulation of different senses and different aspects of cognitive capacity, a unity that was not central in other cultures where words and images were not as mutually significant in the development and management of knowledge.

This insight inspired me to hope that I was at last at the frontiers of ultimate knowledge. That, after decades of striving, I had eventually reached the outskirts of a country I had hunted for in brutal conditions, undergoing mind bending challenges, navigating wildernesses of confusion, moving, falling and rising through trial and error.

What is this country? It is the country of the immortals. The home of the Lords of Sages meditating for many aeons. The sages who dwell at the meeting point of human mind and cosmic mind, the mind that enables the universe. The place where the depths of the cosmos meet the solidity of the earth. That country that is constituted by a structure of relationships that integrates the universe in terms of mental form, as a cognitive configuration. An understanding of the essence, structure and progression of existence.

These systems of knowledge from the much misunderstood continent seemed to me to be ideal for what I had pursued as the central goal of my life for more than twenty years: an integrative understanding of the universe grounded in an unmediated relationship with the ground of being.

Integration of the particulars of Being into a unity. The distillation and transcendence of this unity to enable an entry into That which is beyond the cosmos and yet enfolds it.

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