Framework Awareness
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Frameworks are the solidification of perception. It is how change is realized in the world or how we define our personal approach to it. Frameworks change how we think about a problem, its fundamental elements, and possible solutions. Throughout human history frameworks have been constructed for and by humanity. They are used to define the world and are still very much present and supplied by governments through supported institutions. Very little has changed in this regard, except for the means to impart these frameworks and their complexity.
Our minds require information to establish relationships from one experience to another. The more information that becomes interconnected, the more understanding one can discern. Through more interconnection, the process of comparison and contrasting eventually form into a web-like mental diagram that incorporates new information within already established frameworks or establishes a new framework with supporting connections to others.
Civilization needs frameworks because it inherently functions as a management structure and is a vital tool of wider homogenization of thought throughout a populace. While this is used for control, it also is what gives rise to creative forces due to the limits within the boundary of the framework: Mater artium necessitas. We’re all given frameworks to understand the world, given to us by parents, schools, our peers, and countless other influences. Ultimately, this is the foundation the worldly illusion is built upon, it could be argued this is a conspiracy, but its more like a contract we all agree to function within. As an example, even between these two perceptions about whether or not this is a conspiracy offers us different tools we can use to approach our understanding of it. Dichotomies are very commonly found frameworks that shift perceptions like pawns on a chess board.
Speaking of the world, the word “world” is fascinating. It has 14 definitions, which is quite a lot of heavy lifting for a word. But typically, “world” is used mostly to refer to our planet either as the planet in its entirety or just our global civilization, the latter being my preferred definition. Using “world” as an example, it should be no surprise how many words in English will carry multiple definitions, which are distinguished best by neighboring contextual elements. Context is a subtle communication framework that requires multiple communication skills to learn and to discern meaning from its various abstractions. This is mostly learned through the experience of regularly communicating with others over time, but of course there are plenty of people who need training in communication too. Context could even be seen as a language itself and an accompanying subtextual element that permeates all forms of communication.
We use frameworks to give context to thoughts, ideas, communication, perceptions, passions, and much more. Truly, from just observing how often we need frameworks to make sense of complex information, it becomes apparent how important they are to daily life despite existing entirely in the back of our minds as a method to create relationships between experiences. Our frameworks can even become heavily abstracted by becoming frameworks within frameworks; high-concept art is a great example of this where the artist has an intent of creating a layered meaning until the art has become almost a story in some regard.
All spiritual practices, rituals, texts, divination methods, magical systems etc. are all frameworks as well. These frameworks allow for connections between the subconscious and higher consciousness to explore various combinations of creativity and logic in ways we don’t typically do while conscious. These frameworks help focus the mental illumination experienced when a profound realization comes to pass, which anyone exploring their spiritual side will undoubtably experience in time. Like a lens focusing light, it lets us connect imagery with symbolism, which, depending on the system used, will have other relative correspondences to the experienced imagery.
These correspondences help us to not discard haphazardly small portions of meaningful experiences that add up to a larger meaning within these spiritual systems. They are designed this way to act as a guide towards some semblance of illumination or can even cause ruin through discordance, true insanity, and unbridled chaos. This kind of self-psycho-spiritual manipulation is not for everyone. One needs to cultivate a very fluid mind prior to engaging in the mysteries. The world’s problems must become quieted to no longer distract the practitioner. This is also why isolation is important in these practices.
The illumination experienced in spiritual practices can also deceive by bringing the practitioner to ruin if specific steps of a given framework are skipped. This is why practices like shadow work are very important so that any potential past traumas residing in the subconscious can be delt with before they metastasize into personifications, names, or even separate entities to the practitioner, fostering potentially mind-altering psychoses.
A consequence of discovering objectivity is that it becomes necessary to continue to participate in the worldly subjectivity that most people are content to experience. This is where there is value in deception as all occultists must learn to deceive others, because the knowledge found deep within our minds acts as an antithesis to our world. While one might know many secrets, the world is not always ready or even interested at all to see or hear them.
In my previous blog post, I talked about the framework called Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and how it attempts to define consciousness through interconnectivity. I find this notion interesting because the process of enlightenment/gnosis strives for oneness, which could also be described as a form of perfect interconnectivity or the highest form of consciousness.
Photo by Nicole Thorn © 2023
The best tool we have for physical interconnection is through words: the most direct expression of thought. Language is said to have come from God. From the sky; the night sky in particular. The celestial alphabetical scripts were traced between stars when the first scribes realized the sky was talking to us and telling us of things to come. Out of which agriculture was born, language was born, and our first frameworks were constructed to make sense of the world. This interconnection between the world and the stars has been a primary tenant of all spiritual knowledge since. But our words can also divide. In the Semitic Abjads, this principle is defined by Zayin, the 7th letter which means “sword”: “There are those whose speech is like the piercing of a sword; but the tongue of the wise heals” (Proverbs 12:18).
Expressing differences, rather than interconnection between other people or other perceptions, brings us closer to earthly matters and closer into the hands of ruin. Individuation, being the opposite from oneness, is why we are here on this planet as both an expression of matter and as an expression of spirit. We’re here to experience individual consciousness because we cannot do that without matter. Spiritual practices are meant to be methods for the individual consciousness to connect with higher consciousness and to give it the depth of expression our minds are capable of.
War, famine, disease, and most death are products of how our world operates. These operations that cause much of the world’s misery have their frameworks too that shift resources, value, and available time around the world over generations. I lament that love is a word that has been poisoned in our over-commercialized society through various socialization frameworks. For many people, the word is also very ambiguous in its usage due to its many expressions that have various root emotions. But it is interconnection with others that fosters the kind of love that is important to cultivate to reach higher states of consciousness and to live a more peaceful life, away from what we are told to fear. It is of great value to see oneself within one’s enemies and not to dehumanize them despite erroneous upsets to perceived political, economic, or social frameworks. It is division that is also supported by social frameworks that have their own intent. “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.” (Matthew 5:44).
However, there is great importance in protecting families, building & maintaining a valuable community, and trustworthy access to basic needs. Our bodily vehicle of matter does matter. There are better solutions to these problems than what we’ve been presented within the frameworks provided. Even the source of worldly problems in the first place have become obscured by deceitful intent through Hegelian super structures designed to create solutions now, but problems later.
I hope that this entry has sufficiently demonstrated the absurd creative power found in complex relational interconnections that are housed within our frameworks. These mental tools highlight the effectiveness of our ability to architect our perception or the perceptions of others. To use these tools consciously can have profound effects on how we interpret information and can liberate us from the multitude of psychological architectures that populate the modern world.
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