Here is the puzzling question. Does the autocrat create the automaton? Or does the automaton bring into being the autocrat? Which came first?
Let's take a look at these words and then inside the meanings of these words.
Automatic-
occuring as a matter of course and without debate; done or occuring spontaneously without conscious thought or intention; a device or p r o c e s s working by itself with little or no direct human control
Automaton-
that which possesses the power of spontaneous movement without consciousness ; a machine that performs a function according to a predetermined set of coded instructions, especially one capable of a range of programmed responses to different circumstances.
Autonomist -
supporter of autonomy- [ autonomy- freedom from external control or influence ]
Autocrat -
someone who insists on complete obedience from others; an imperious or domineering person
Autoharp-
a kind of zither with a mechanical device that allows the playing of a chord by damping all the other strings.
What do you think?
Do the words bring about the reality, ...or does the reality make up the words needed to define it.
Funny thing, while writing this I wanted to look up a particular word and a well known dictionary source online noted in the entry for that particular word that - "[the source] is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised." Is this meaning revised to meet or create modern reality?
But more importantly....
Can an Automaton discern these questions and provide an answer?
"...discernment requires in the man who would practice it an experimental knowledge of his own different states of consciousness and of the value of the evidence they offer him. " - Isha Schwaller de Lubicz
What defines the automaton after all is that it is without consciousness.
In other words, an unconscious being?
At this point multiple questions arise that must be explored in order to discern the creature of discussion, the automaton. Any further understanding of the topic here requires a knowledge of consciousness.
What Is Consciousness?
The question has to be asked and in order for a human being to answer this, consciouness must be experienced. It seems that in order to grasp consciousness, we must first evolve conscious experience into an elevated consciousness, or higher consciousness, which then becomes the conscious observer of the human experience.
The characters of JD Salinger are in fact the conscious observer grasping consciousness. In the final pages of Franny and Zooey, there is that line spoken to Franny. Don't you know that goddam secrect yet?
Carl Jung, in his great work, Memories, Dreams and Reflections tells us
"As far as we can discern the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
And among the few who have offered insight on the origin of consciousness are the Schwaller husband and wife authors and researchers. Isha Schwaller will discuss in her work the origin of consciousness as Unity.
Just as physicists at one time did not have quantum theories, and the atom was then thought to be an indivisible Unity, until this Unity exploded atomically, so does Isha Schwaller de Lubicz explode for us on page 31 of The Opening of The Way
"... the comprehension of this Unity is beyond our creaturely powers as parts of the Universe and effects of the single Cause. This Unity, in fact, will only exist for us if we can compare it to something; and comparison implies consciousness and duality."
If we are still existing in this world of thought after the dropping of bombs on our concepts of mortal existence, then we would read on a little further down the page to grasp further...
"Unity creates by observing itself"
And R A Schwaller will also chime in as his wife quotes his work here on the same page:
"Consciousness developes with a knowledge of the various elements of genesis and of the spiritual bond uniting them. In other words, this is knowledge of both good and evil, and also knowledge of the One; the former, comes from our mortal intelligence, which separates as a scythe, and the latter, from our immortal intelligence, which unifies."
And here I can only find amusement as so many writers have expressed these same ideas as veiled characters and scenerios in novel experiences bound by a hard back cover. I love it!
What was that tree that was in the Garden of Eden? What did Eve take a bite out of before she "fell". Snow White fell....asleep too, after the apple, right?
Are you a good witch or a bad witch? Did Dorothy encounter these same apple trees on her travels?
But I said a few paragraphs ago that multiple questions arise. And these other questions arise from the similiarities or common prefix of each word, being auto. What is this meaning? What does the origin of that word auto bring in to the discussion?
Well lets look at that question and also the questionof is the brain is consciousness.
But going back to the beginning of this journey the question was...
Does the autocrat create the automaton? Or does the automaton bring into being the autocrat? Which came first? I would add now this question... or are these simply mirror images?
Of course I can not answer these questions, no. Nor can any writers from the Ancients to those on X, tell us of consciousness. The words from every player are, simply, the bricks in the yellow road. You can follow this road to OZ and take up residence there, or you can let your experiences on the road lead you home. Remember, on your travels....
"Experience must always be individual, and self knowledge, which is the indispensable foundation, can only be attained by individual effort." The Opening Of The Way ... Isha Schwaller de Lubicz
And of course Glenda, the good witch, says similarly to Dorothy,
You always had the power my dear, you just had to find it... [ experience it ] yourself.
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