Fair Comments and Foul Opinions

Quality thinking involves making clear distinctions between fact and belief.

If you believe you live an authentic life, what are the facts in relation to that belief?

How do you distinguish between quality reasoning and dubious opinions?

When do you know a taboo is unjustified and possibly even dangerous?

If you are participating in the enlightened re-enchantment of the world, perhaps you regard the associated process as sacred in some way.  

You may also associate the processes with political legitimacy and/or popular sovereignty.

Perhaps you have reverence for enlightenment in all its forms, including the intellectual and perceptual forms and the spiritual forms.

The carefully documented series in this grimoire, about the enlightened re-enchantment of the world, will probably require your regular perusal over the next few years, directly and indirectly:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

How do you usually prevent yourself from falling prey to illusions and disillusionment, particularly when faced with difficult situations?

How carefully do you distinguish between matter and imaginings?

How carefully do you distinguish between mysteries and histories? 

What do you know about quality investments as enchantments, and how have you acquired that knowledge?

What have been your prior experiences of continually refining meanings?

You are certainly permitted to provide fair comments in relation to this grimoire.

You are not permitted to present foul opinions.

How do you distinguish between a fair comment and a foul opinion?

Perhaps you regard the Spirit of Enlightenment as a totem of the second Age of Enlightenment, if not the first Age of Enlightenment.

Perhaps you are in awe of the Spirit of Enlightenment.

All relatively enlightened persons have that experience in relation to the numinous and luminous and ineffable and hospitable expressions of the great lady.

Which aspects of experience do you regard as ineffable, and why?

Perhaps you regard that question as impossible to answer.

Perhaps you do not regard the numen of Twaklin as divine.

How are you attempting to solve problems, and why, and for whose benefit?

Perhaps you are an enthusiast for knowledge, for the accumulation of experiences and for the acquisition of admiration.  If so, how do you know you are not being excessively selfish?

No selfishness can reasonably be regarded as respectable.

Perhaps you do not regard reasonableness as sacred.

If you consider your life to be overly complicated at present, what has caused that problem to arise, and why?

If you consider your life to be excessively uncomfortable at present, what are you attempting to do to make yourself more comfortable, and why? 

What is an affordable life, from your point of view?

Where would you prefer to live, and how, and why?

How would you prefer to earn an income and/or receive an income?

Perhaps you have been seeking the assistance of necessary women for one reason or another. 

What have been your most important encounters with nature and culture, and the mingling between the two, and how do you know?

How do you assess physical attractiveness in terms of people, places and works of art and nature? 

There are many questions in this grimoire requiring your fair comments.

Do you think your mind is or is not adequately open at present?

Perhaps you have been thinking about fate reasonably well, or not as the case may be.

Perhaps you lack reverence towards fate.

Perhaps you do not know how to define fate or reverence accurately.

How do you distinguish between the literal aspects of a culture and the figurative parts of it?

How do you ascertain the meaning of the figurative in various contexts? 

All real world leaders regard themselves as trainees.

Who are your current mentors and how have they been helping you improve your leadership?

Perhaps you do not believe importance is an important topic.

Perhaps no-one agrees with you on matters you regard as important.

What do you regard as greatness, genius and transcendence?

Regardless of your age or location, what is your current public profile, and why?

How are you using that profile towards a better understanding of the world?

How are you using that profile towards improving understanding in the world?

What is a public profile, in your view?  

Perhaps you have a local public profile rather than a more widespread one.

Who has access to sensitive information about you, and why?

Who intrudes into your privacy, and why?

Who compromises your security, and why?

Persons of true quality appropriately respect privacy at all times.

What is your current relationship to time in all its aspects?

What is your current relationship with places and spaces?

How have you most recently been interpreting a locus focus? 

How have you most recently been exploring ideas about the temporary and the permanent, and why?

How do you usually think about doorways in relation to the private and the public, the inclusive and the exclusive, inside spaces and outdoor spaces?

How consistently do you make the time to observe, acknowledge and understand changes?

How consistently do you make the time to identify, acknowledge and understand needs?

Perhaps you rarely make sufficient time in your schedule to help you overcome your ignorance, even of your own talents.

Research is mainly about identifying existing knowledge.

Studying is about attempting to comprehend that knowledge.

When, though, do you believe you must seek out new knowledge no-one else has discovered?

How do you attempt to discover facts about yourself? 

Perhaps your ancestors had no connection with the High Renaissance or the development and decline of Mannerism, as far as you are aware.

How do you try to obtain objective information from previous centuries?

How do you ascertain the facts of subjective experiences, whether you have personally experienced that subjectivity or not?

What have you discovered about objectively powerful ways to support good in the world? 

Perhaps you regard reading to be one of your most pleasurable activities.  You may even find reading fun, depending on the subject matter.

What have you been reading about art history in relation to political history in relation to various parts of the world?

What do you know about art history and political history in relation to religious beliefs and various opinions?

Have you ever thought deeply about religious attitudes to wealth?

Have you ever been part of a clique of rich friends? 

Are you able to distinguish clearly between spiritual wealth and material wealth?

Are you able to distinguish clearly between spiritual poverty and material poverty?

Do you usually prefer to be creative on your own or with other people?

Do you usually believe the availability of free time in your day, week or month provides you with a chance to explore and express your creativity, learn new skills, develop long ignored talents. and possibly even begin a whole new way of life?

Are you capable of exhibiting clarity in your comments here?

Well-informed persons have serious concerns about resource consumption and waste and abuse and poverty and pollution and environmental degradation and the unjust political power of excessive wealthy persons and assorted bullies.

How do you intend to transform the world in the weeks ahead, and why?

No matter how good your reasoning happens to be, if the stresses in your life are mainly caused by the unreasonableness of other people, your resilience is likely to be severely impaired.

How do you distinguish between imagined worlds and the real world?

What do you believe you already know about well-informed kindness and well-informed investing?  

What do you know about exposing charlatans appropriately?

Many young people have a propensity to believe that their own experiences of newness equate with advances in knowledge and sophistication.  Such people are usually unaware that they have been duped into following a commercial agenda not of their own making.

Many older people have also been duped into following commercial agendas, primarily through advertising.

Do you usually consider differing beliefs to be the essence of cultural difference?

If you seek to experience a premium product or high quality experience at a budget price, why do you believe you deserve to do so, and who should pay the difference?

Sometimes, impulsive people think they are kind.  They may even believe themselves to be well-informed.

Yet impulsive behaviours cause many problems in the world, including much wastefulness.

Impulsive people fail to appreciate the time required for courteous introductions and other transitions.  They are impatient and often rude.  They do not know how to use their time well, or their minds well.

If you are not particularly popular, what do you know about the reasons for that being the case?

How do you usually try to gain useful knowledge, skills and experience?

What have you been learning about sacred mysteries, and how? 

Fair is foul and foul is fair in the minds of corrupt persons.

But how do you tell whether a person, or system, is corrupt or otherwise?

Defining corruption is a very important task for any real leader.

Communicating that definition clearly is equally important.

Of most importance, however, is the elimination of corruption by the fairest means possible.

How have you already assessed such possibilities in relation to fairness?

Many foul opinions imply violent intentions, even when the sources claim otherwise.