Godheval

DECONSTRUCTING IDENTITY – this means being aware of the “true nature” of the self, which is a “divine nothingness”, a void that can be filled by anything the free-thinker desires, that can be emptied and filled again ad infinitum. The true identity is no identity, because identity as an ideological construct, limits the growth potential of the individual to a specific and thus restricted context. Deconstructing identity can take place on numerous levels, from no longer needing to be defined by one’s “race”, religion, occupation, or achievements, to even the “personality” which they’ve taken on as an adaptive response to the external world. All things are subject to change.

DECONSTRUCTING CULTURE – this means being aware of the movements of society and culture around the self; being a non-conformist means acknowledging the flow of culture and consciously choosing in which parts to engage and which parts to avoid. Both the herd mentality and that of the self-made loner are to be avoided.

DECONSTRUCTING KNOWLEDGE – do not assume knowledge; on the contrary, assume that you know nothing at all, that at any given time what you hold to be true or self-evident could be undermined or refuted by new discoveries. Hundreds of years of Newtonian physics, unchallenged until Einstein, and then suddenly the whole universe took on a new texture. Use knowledge where it is practical, seek knowledge in order to nurture the mind, but separate it from ideology so as not to inhibit the absorption of new and possibly “counter-intuitive” knowledge. The search for knowledge is endless, for as knowledge itself must be deconstructed, so must new knowledge takes its place, creating a perpetual process.

DECONSTRUCTING DOGMA – do not “believe“, because belief is stagnant, unchanging, unfalsifiable, and thus inhibits the mind’s ability to grow. It is valid to feel strongly about something, to tentatively “believe”, so long as there is at least some room for doubt. As Kierkegaard says, even for the religious man, there can be no true faith without doubt. The “leap” is meaningless unless there is risk, and that which is unquestionably “known” presents no such risk. Doubt and healthy skepticism are the vehicles for the human’s continuous mental and spiritual progression.

DECONSTRUCTING FEAR – Fear is the foresight of inevitable change, and therefore the primary modus operandi of preservation.  Fear inspires distrust, anger, hatred, and at its worse the impulse to destroy that which is perceived as a threat. As destruction itself is change, fear instills in the subject an urge to change the object into itself, thereby preserving itself by proxy. Fear as preservation manifests physically through survival instincts and the impulse to protect offspring. But it can also be seen in people’s vigorous attempts to convince others of their points of view; they become the vehicles for those ideas – the tools by which those waveforms (memes) propagate. The antidote to fear is knowledge of the other. The addendum to “Know Thy Enemy” is “and discover that perhaps they are not”.

DECONSTRUCTING INTELLIGENCE – humans hold dear their “intelligence“, that which sets them “above” the rest of the animal kingdom. And indeed intelligence has great utility in our physical world. However, it must be recognized that intelligence may be only a selective adaptation to the physical world, which itself may be an illusion of perception, i.e. a manifestation of the static. Therefore intelligence should be heralded where it is useful, but it should not become the yardstick by which people are measured. For if intelligence is only a “greater rational understanding” of the physical world, it does not rank higher in importance than intuition, that form of understanding which places us closer to the collective unconsciousness.