Empowermental Studies & Leadership Programs II

 
Triads.
                  Paradox   
        Logic  Contradiction
 
                  parabolic
      symbolic  diabolic
 
                “sacramental”
          literal   metaphorical
 
              counter-intuitive
          tuition   intuition
    
                  non-sense
           sense  no-sense-at-all
 
I like the triad structure because it’s like a
tie-breaker: it will encourage  the revelation
of a 3^rd mediating  embracing term, a quantum
leap-like to a  super-ordinate notion that shows
off the complementarity in opposition.
 
“Church” and “State,” for example:  a  typical
double bind aggravation and opposition where
the values of  one side are appropriately  “hostile”
and incommensurate to the values of the other.    


   (name the 3^rd term, or I'll tell you: school)
           church state
          
 
My Strength of Mind increases, say, by virtue of the
acknowledged weakness of my opinions, beliefs, biases.
The weaker, the stronger. My open-mindedness consists
in knowing my close-mindedness: the more closed I recognize,
the more open my recognition.
 
Without the use of paradox and contra-diction, how can we
do justice to the levels and complexities of our lives?  
 
The reason someone's metaphors (representations) can be
pushed over the edge in glee and apparent triumph and is
because they are physical  images (matter ) for non-physical
ideas (spirit ).  Mind is not a material thing.  Can’t touch or
weigh.  We can’t help but violate the whole by reducing it
to specific use, a crime and ongoing injustice, true? 
 
Switch your meta-force in mid-stream.
It’s always a matter of representation, yes?
Manners of speaking. 
 
You know how youngsters get overjoyed with their ability to
blow away the notion of an  omnipotent god by asking:     
      
       well, can he make a rock so big
                  he can’t lift it?
 
thinking they have destroyed the notion with logic?
 
They are caught inside their own fundamental literalism and don’t
even know it.  
 
Medieval theologians put in play the relationship of  matter and
non-matter by fooling with how many angels (say)  might dance
on the head of a pin.
 
ee cummings and Sylvia Plath represent “fathers”  in two radically
different metaphors, but no one is going to go to war defending one
over the other. Christians imagine a Loving Father in charge, and
then get discouraged when  bad things happen.  Jews know better
than to say G-d’s name, and Muslims won’t allow any human
representation at all. Intelligent design, sure.  Geometry.