THE ACCELERATION OF KNOWLEDGE

Ask the questions. Progress from simple. Once you've mastered them, move on to the next question that challenges you.  Remember, there isn't an order to follow. Next is a matter of searching out the thing that requires your attention in that moment. And when it is accomplished, as the question- what is my duty to myself?  Exercise? Labouring? Reading? Thoughtfulness toward your partner? Tolerance?  Sleep? Planning? A meal? Knowledge is what happens when we are learning.  Data, facts are loose, floating in the cosmos until we put them into a context.  How do we do that? We ask a question.  Some thinkers believe that existence depends on definition. Until something is defined it doesn't exist. Does meaning float around, does it exist waiting for us to discover or is meaning constructed by awareness and understanding?  Pity the poor mason who does not graps the ethics and philosophy of the Order.    On this history is kind, explaining how in days past, scholars studied and passed on knowledge to brethren who were illiterate, not as hubris but as a kindness so a brother in spite of his circumstance could be learned.   Different ways of learning have always been available.  Always there have been others ready to tell us what and how to think.  In Latin, that is known as -major pain in the ass-.   Perhaps we are derivative, reflecting ideas of others, until we come to the moment when our ideas become genuinely our own.   Some time ago, I recall sitting with a patient who was struggling, needing authentication. He was the expert, not me. He had been and continued.