why the metaphysical matters -- in four simple questions, and how I succeed in studying it.

it's appalling the widespread lack of attention given to, and indeed the widespread disparagement of the metaphysical -- reflection on reflection.   Would you operate on a body without understanding and sterilizing your tools?  Would you plant without knowing and correcting the constituents of the soil that becomes the flower, which eats it?  Would you build a tower without foundations?  Would you give the job of constructing or verifying the foundations to a coterie developing an arcane specialized language that takes so long to learn the practitioners half the time forget and contradict the misguided reason they learned it?   

To reflect together and reach a consensus on the least false error allowing us to proceed and fail productively -- tacking back and forth, erring now this way, now that, in order to make progress as we sail toward a better world whose qualities we all generally agree on -- is of utmost critical, immediate importance.  One sails by the rules or one capsizes.  We must not shrink from this effort or fear squashing the competition and getting on with it!  I have rushed to the helm and am holding onto the steering wheel for dear life as it spins me around, my weight hardly its equal.  I need help!  I repeat the assertions of the first paragraph!   Please stop pandering to ideas that don't work but worked to release you from earlier unworkable ones, so you have pledged allegiance to them and don't have to think anymore.  Thinking is only for adolescents.  Wrong.  Not just because even adolescents don't know how to think about such supposedly impractical things anymore. Please un-bond with those on the bandwagon and put your nose to this grindstone.  

While it eats it, the rose is not the soil, just so the physical does not touch the metaphysical, and yet it does.

In a particular experience, by inspiration, today, here and now, all genres blend to point to what can only be known indirectly.  That's the good news.  Once the canoe arrives at the island, use it for firewood, lest you be tempted to regress.   There is much to say about everything, the one thing that's been overlooked. Meet everything. Everything is back!  Everything is both ancient and brand new, familiar and strange, old hat and has never looked like this before. and everything that assumed it wasn't and never would be, or would be some time in the future is obsolete. 

to gain access to all posts, eventually, begin, if you not already done so, at themongreldiscourse.blogspot.com.  The Previous Post list above and to the right always shows up to ten most recently posted posts previous to the opened one,  the posts in this list reversing the chronological order of their appearance, the last appearing first.  By continually clicking on the one at the bottom of the list, you gain access to more posts until you have reviewed the whole index.  (I have, though, falsified some dates in the program, but not on the page, as this order is not always the order in which I choose to present the posts.)  

kerry rose shear (veronika) krvs at me dot com

september 6, 2021