A big thing humans do...

A thing I want to identify, or put into words. Something all humans seem to do.

Once you learn of something at the on-the-mark, practical level you then just let it set there as you continue to dilly-dally with controversy and lesser aspects of the most important thing you've discovered and already come into understanding of.

1. OK, I see that the traditional text of the Bible is THE real, God-preserved Bible. So now just read it. (But I so enjoy arguing about it with Critical Text people, and all the rhetoric that wounds vanity can be so pleasurable - both ways - and all that.

2. OK, I have come to 'see' that the Work is a language of the Holy Spirit, and ALSO that it corresponds to practical level Christian practice. It just does. I've made numerous discoveries of how Puritans, for instance, practiced prayer and meditation that corresponds with what I know as the two conscious shocks. So, GO WITH ALL THAT. Instead, though, I like to wade into 'Village of Morality' Christian environments and argue and provoke and do all the pleasurable immature things that are like a child fighting with authority and all that.

3. A big one is this: I've come to know what Work ideas, practices, and goals are, at the practical level, and I know you just simply have to make real efforts to do it all, steadily, to provoke limits and hence to extend limits. So do it! (But of course one then desires to 'go back' and play games with all your new understanding and do anything but the hardcore, walking down that road of real time development.)

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I could think of more.

I have a book: The Holy Spirit in Puritan Faith and Experience, by Geoffrey F. Nuttall that really, in a deep and - though he is very much an academic - non-mainstream way gets at aspects of Christian practice in the time of the Reformation that sheds light on the real connections with how close it is to Work practice. Prayer without words, for instance. I won't go into it all. But much of the hardcore, practical faith and history of the faith is shielded from us simply because the mainstream doesn't connect with it, so they don't write about it. So you have to trust how you have been given, by the Holy Spirit, to see things. Have confidence. Don't question it. If it seems on-the-mark it's hard still to not question it because the mainstream says "Heresy!" or whatever. And there ARE heresies all over the place. But you have to know what you know and then act on it.