from science to emancipation

reading for m of care – nov 8 – on roy bhaskar.. critical realism et al

(2002) – by roy – from science to emancipation – alienation and the actuality of enlightenment – via 425 pg pdf [https://museum.care/events/roy-bhaskar-s-enlightened-common-sense-and-from-science-to-emancipation-reading-group-part-1/]

notes/quotes:

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manifesto of metareality

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We begin this process of becoming free, that is, of expanding the zone of non-duality within our lives, *by becoming aware of all the elements that currently constitute them and throwing off all those elements which are inconsistent with our free, creative, loving natures. In this process we come to **realise that the very world of misery and destitution we have created itself contains and is sustained by the seeds of a society of abundance, peace and fulfilment, in which we are all free to express and fulfil our essential natures.

*yeah.. i don’t think we have to do that anymore.. and luckily to.. it’s an energy/time suck.. there is a nother way for 8bn people to be legit free

**not sure what this means.. but to me.. sea world (aka: non legit freedom/peace/fulfillment/essentials) is what sustains misery/destitution ness.. not legit free.. not legit essence

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preface

my first systematic attempt to integrate spirituality into the philosophical framework of critical realism, to the position which I now hold, which I have elaborated as the philosophy of metaReality.. main difference between the philosophy of metaReality
and critical realism,. is that critical realism has been founded on the principle of nonidentity, and as such reflects the limitations of the world of duality; whereas the philosophy of metaReality stresses identity, identification and unity, and the ubiquity and centrality ..

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Thus consider the phenomenon of war. This phenomenon, in a way the epitome of human hatred, is sustained only through the
selfless solidarity of soldiers fighting at the front and the support they receive from their sisters, daughters and mothers at home.

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intro

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I take its fundamental message to be that if we humans are to freely flourish in a sustainable way, we will have to get back in tune with nature understood as a totality profoundly interconnected at the level of the real, acting, as Bhaskar puts it in the present volume, ‘from the perspective of the whole totality’, i.e. ‘the whole of the universe

need 1st/most: means to undo our non hierarchical listening to self/others/society ie: tech as it could be

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Two of the leading themes of the book are already announced in its title: that the movement of the earlier philosophy of critical
realism ‘from science to emancipation’ tacitly presupposes the spirituality of the philosophy of metaReality (PMR) and that
enlightenment is ‘actual’: people are already abundantly in possession of the qualities that are necessary for building eudaimonia,. t which are presupposed by and manifest in every genuine human act (‘ultimately human beings are fine, they are absolutely fine, there is nothing wrong with them, they are beautiful’ [p. 304]); ‘all’ that remains to be done is to shed what is inconsistent with and parasitic upon our higher selves..t

already on each heart ness.. no train.. no prep.. just global detox

so again.. just need means to listen deeper

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part 1 – the development of critical realism

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1 – from a philosophy of a science to a philosophy of universal self realization

via jm 12 pg pdf and recommendation of ch 11 [https://internationalcentreforcriticalrealism.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/10-bhaskar-fse-ch-11.pdf]:

11 – educating the educators or empowering teachers

cringe.. any form of people telling other people what to do et al

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going to talk about.. a very timely thought that marx had when he asked.. who is going to ed the ed’s who is going to empower them who is going to transform them.. what i want to talk about is a kind of dialectic between self change, self transformation .. in/outside..

to me.. not going to have any legit transform if still telling people ness..

i think if you are truly spiritual.. if you have no ego.. if you really love other people.. then you must be engaged in activities of practical transformation in the world.. putting yourself in the service of the cause of human emancipation.. in fact universal self realisation.. that is the only spiritual approach that i can see is truly spiritual, that is of course the approach of all the great spiritual leaders.. jesus buddha

yeah.. that.. can’t not.. ness.. findings abstract and thinking restate/update 7.18 et al

when marx said.. free development of each would be the condition of the free development of all.. in other words.. your well being/flourishing was the condition for my own.. in other words.. it is no good my being free, it is no good my being the most fantastically *improved and perfect person .. if you are still miserable and unhappy.. standpoint of all great religions.. so that is where i am coming from, that really there is **no contradiction between spirituality and radical social change.. no contradiction between ***self improvement and therefore education in the broad sense and commitment to transformation of social structure and the emancipation of all..

**like it all.. none of us are free ness.. but *this and ***this are cancerous distractions

Once you get to that point where you feel that you are really oriented in your life to collective human emancipation, ultimately ..how do we bring it about? The thing is, the really important thing to understand is..*can never emancipate anyone else. Emancipation cannot be imposed from with0ut, emancipation always comes from within.

*but imagine a turtle.. need conditions (hari rat park law et al) so people can free.. be free..

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Then when you are committed to radical social change you will ask yourself, how do you change people, and you will find that any attempt to force emancipation from outside..will not work..very important for education, to sketch out this dialectic of spiritual development and radical social transformation..

oh my.. doing exactly that thing (people telling other people what to do et al)

This is the gestalt involved in all acts of learning and education. Without that you cannot teach anyone anything at all..You cannot impose understanding on them, they have to bring from within.

oi.. we need to let go of teaching and understanding ness et al.. we have no idea what legit free people are like.. am imagining those would be irrelevant s and cancerous distractions

So what is the condition of this, it is an extraordinary condition. *The condition is it means they must already know it. Because if it comes from within they must already have the knowledge and this is in fact nothing other than Plato’s theory that all education is anamnesis, that what you are doing is **bringing out something that was implicit, enfolded, potential within them, you are actualising it, making it explicit, but unless it was there, you could not have that ‘ah’, that ‘I see it’, that coming together when the pupil ***understands what the teacher is trying to say.

oh my.. *i resonate with this.. already on each heart ness.. which means no prep.. no train.. et al

**this is training.. this is people telling other people what to do.. oi

***irrelevant s and cancerous distractions

Most failures in life at any level stem from confusion, stem from not being clear about what you want.

oh my.. to me if legit free wouldn’t be about trying to clarify wants.. rather.. would just be living/being legit needs.. so need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature as global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs

*the criterion for achieving your goal in life is single-pointedness, clarity, coherence and purity.

oh my oh my.. not that.. oi

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..if you look deep enough every theory of emancipation, every theory of realisation make.., this claim, that ultimately human beings are fine, they are absolutely fine, there is nothing wrong with them, they are beautiful. ..Some people have even said that we are all enlightened already. It is only this mess that we have on top of it which stops us from realising our enlightenment.

aka: whales in sea world.. fine if get out.. let’s do this first

What I want to say is that the project of education, the project of enlightenment, and the project of universal self-realisation are the same, or all turn on a single matter, ..eliminating everything which is not
essentially you.

which to date is everything

intellectness as cancerous distraction we can’t seem to let go of.. there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental expo labeling).. to facil a legit global detox leap.. for (blank)’s sake.. and we’re missing it

legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of m\a\p

otherwise .. not just same.. same cancerous song

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At a political level we are in a terrible state. At an economic level there is chronic debt, chronic Third World debt, chronic crisis, and yet we are living on a planet of abundance. We have potentially everything we need.

just need a means to org around legit needs

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..but when it happens it is just spontaneous, it is unconditional, it is a gift.

graeber unpredictability/surprise law et al.. fromm spontaneous law et al

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..And of course women, for their part, will engage in long chains of mental reasoning. You may think you are not be good at arithmetic, but come on, it’s fine. You can enjoy it.

So it seems in a way the child must already know it to learn anything.

rather.. not yet scrambled ness begs to be let/kept free..

..Then you have in built knowledge.

oi.. intellectness as cancerous distraction et al

..At this stage you can be spontaneous.

we can be spontaneous from the get go.. if conditions are free.. learning to be spontaneous isn’t being spontaneous.. it’s listening to people telling you what to do

And at the end of the day what we want to do is to fulfil ourselves.

which would come from missing pieces.. not from accomplishing/achieving/learning anything..

black science of people/whales law

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..I want to argue that our goal as educators, self-educators, is to be a party to a process of being and creating and helping beings help create themselves to be non-dual beings in a world of duality.

but earlier.. person has to do it themself.. so help\ing ness.. becomes violence.. graeber violence in care law.. et al

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.. So we have to understand what are the blocks, the constraints, the checks on our own emancipation, what are the blocks, the constraints, the checks on the emancipation of all people, all beings everywhere. We have to become one with them. We have to totally understand them to eliminate them, that is these blocks, constraints, forces.

gupta roadblock law et al