The Enlightened Re-enchantment of the World - Part Five
How is it possible to prevent extremes of any sort?
Real witches, the wonderful ones, are certainly not extremists.
They are not aggressive or dangerous in any way whatsoever.
They uphold the truth.
They respect reasonable differences of opinion.
They do their best to contribute to the development and implementation of proper policies, through the informal provision of education, training, supervision and other forms of peaceful guidance.
They know that punishments should never by capital or corporal or psychological or otherwise unjust.
Indeed, real witches regard punishment itself as cruel and stupid. Only guidance towards goodness is justified.
But how should cruelty be deterred?
How should stupidity be overcome?
And how should real witches respond to the perpetration of acts of cruelty, especially those practiced by the powerful?
Yet effective, suitably responsible collective action requires appropriate education, training, supervision and other forms of peaceful guidance.
What do you know about the Civility Journalism Circle?
What do you know about the Spirit of Enlightenment?
If you are enlightened, you will know the difference between real energy and real synergy. You will also be able to distinguish between real energy, real synergy and silly ideas relating to energies and synergies.
How do you attempt to prevent political stupidity?
How do you attempt to replace political stupidity with political enlightenment?
What do you know about stupid political applications of addition, multiplication and exponentiation?
What do you know about logarithms of loveliness?
What do you know about logarithms of punishment?
What do you know about analogue computers, such as slide rules?
How do you measure punishments in relation to rules?
What do you know about stupid political applications of subtraction and division?
Perhaps you continue to have a divisive point of view regarding real witches rather than a decisive acquaintance with world peace.
Perhaps you are selfishly excited by the history of army divisions and/or naval divisions.
Perhaps you are selfishly excited by military history more generally, and even by aggressive games, dangerous sports and other inappropriate behaviours.
Perhaps you have mental health problems preventing you from making appropriately peaceful decisions.
Are you sure you have reached the quinary level of training here?
Most trainees are yet to succeed at the quaternary level, or even at the lower levels.
Perhaps you do not regard yourself as a trainee in the art of real witchcraft and the science of real statecraft.
Regardless of your sex and gender and status in relation to witchcraft and statecraft and the craft of appropriate journalism, please ensure you are adequately familiar with numeral systems in relation to positional notation before continuing.
Enlightened tonalities are particularly important to real witches, both musically and politically.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the tonalities associated with arithmetical and geometrical necessities.
Perhaps you are unaware that the observable universe consists mainly of vibrations.
While arithmetic is associated with measurable quantities, geometry is associated with measurable space.
How do you usually assess languages in relation to meaning?
How do you usually assess images in relation to meaning?
How do you usually assess tone in relation to meaning?
What is your acquaintance with counting in various contexts, including musical ones and political ones?
What is you acquaintance with psychophysics, particularly psychoacoustics?
What is your acquaintance with psychochemistry, particularly in relation to olfactory perceptions, gustatory perceptions and non-perceptible elements and molecules?
The non-perceptible, in physics and chemistry, does not necessarily mean an unperceived vibration or unperceived atom does not exist, of course.
The same is obviously true of biology, particularly microbiology.
While the senses are warning systems, and pleasure systems, they cannot perceive every danger. They may not even perceive every pleasure.
And all humans have imperfect sensory systems in many ways. Most suffer from impairments of one sort or another, even if they lack awareness of those impairments.
How do you usually assess reliability?
How do you usually respond to musical atonality and microtonality?
How do you usually respond to clashes of values?
How do you usually respond to incompatible responses to problems?
Perhaps you would rather reflect upon the causes and consequences of the Battle of Marathon of 490 BC.
Perhaps you would rather reflect upon the life and work of Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570 – c. 495 BC).
What do you know about human temperaments?
What do you know about temperaments within other species?
What do you know about musical temperament?
How do you assess analogies?
What do you know about your diffuse chemosensory system?
How do you attempt to protect yourself, other people, other species and the Earth from harmful endogeny and harmful exogeny?
Are you sure you have reached the quinary level here?
The enlightened re-enchantment of the world involves a suitably structured understanding of everything in relation to appropriately described contextual positions.
Perhaps you would rather think about naguals and/or apsaras.
Perhaps you would rather think about chaotic times in Chinese history.
Perhaps you would rather think about chaotic consequences of inappropriate seduction.
Perhaps you would rather think about the fate of Henry Hudson.
Perhaps you would rather think about algebra and calculus.
Perhaps you would especially like to think about the differential geometry of musical isomorphisms and control theory.
What are you preferred interests, your preferred beliefs and your preferred tastes and values?
What do you know about their causes and consequences?
Perhaps you are interested in the history of marathons and/or massacres.
Perhaps you are interested in the history and future of dynamic systems.
What do you already know about theories of harmony, in various contexts?
What do you already know about consonance and dissonance?
How do you interpret conflict and its causes?
Perhaps you are interested in discovering the truth about the Albigensian Crusade and the Battle of Muret of 1213.
Perhaps you are interested in learning more about the Battle of Portopí of 1229.
Perhaps you wish to study autobiographical chronicles from centuries past.
Perhaps you are mostly interested in the history and future of systems, including communications systems and control systems.
Perhaps you are mostly interested in the history and future of musical tuning.
Perhaps you are mostly interested in the history and future of observability and controllability in various contexts.
Perhaps you have a considerable interest in testing stability theory and/or optimal control theory.
Perhaps you have a considerable interest in the history and future of grammar, logic and rhetoric, or another form of trivium.
Perhaps you have considerable difficulty with the three Rs.
Perhaps you have a considerable talent for arithmetic and geometry, or not as the case may be.
Perhaps you have a considerable talent for music and/or astronomy.
Do you associate the quadrivium with Hecate?
Perhaps you regard the universe as a system of automation.
Perhaps you regard an education to be complete only if it is fully grounded and fully rounded in the liberal arts.
Perhaps you wish to learn more about Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) and his mother.
Perhaps you are interested in studying the Cosmic Mystery from the perspective of quantum mechanics or neuroscience, or both.
What is your acquaintance with coherent control?
Perhaps you are especially interested in the life and career of Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287 – c. 212 BC).
Perhaps you are especially interested in the life and career of Isaac Newton (1642-1726/27).
Perhaps you are especially interested in glittering generalities and the Barnum effect.
Perhaps you are especially interested in the psychology of torture and other forms of deliberate harm, possibly in order to prevent future harm from being perpetrated.
Perhaps you are more interested in learning about quackery, the confirmation bias and cold readings.
Perhaps you are more interested in learning about serendipity, experiences of epiphany and the eureka effect.
Perhaps you have a great deal of interest in plots, scandals, front organisations, anonymous writings, false documents, rhetorical devices, loaded language and conspiracy theories.
Perhaps you enjoy studying obfuscation, doublespeak, coded meanings, dog whistle politics, thought-terminating clichés, cognitive dissonance, ideographs, mass hysteria, moral panic and witch hunts.
Perhaps you have have studied the trial of Joan of Arc and other alleged witches.
Perhaps you are seeking to learn the truth about the Illuminati.
Perhaps you are seeking to understand the role of JS Bach in the preparation of tuning.
You may also be seeking to learn more about quaternary and quinary training opportunities, with the assistance of Calliope and her colleagues. If so, you must decide on the subjects of most interest to you and accurately understand why those subjects are of most interest to you.
What do you find quite surprising, and why?
The next part in this series will appear here in the early hours of 12 October 2021, local time.
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