Denis Diderot, 1713-1784
This is a cosmic moment for me, the euphoria of meeting a consciousness like my own.
I am uncertain about it because I have faithfully followed what I feel is my inner process of learning, consciousness and thinking, rather than the thoughts themselves. And yet, in recent years I have been creating my own “encyclopedia” of thought. Again, not so much of what, but more so of how and what work together in probing the nature and character of everything.
I feel like I don’t want to read about Diderot and his thoughts because my writing will appear to be something I learned from him. Like I was copying him.
This is what so many intellectuals do. They accumulate and identify with the knowledge of others, seeing themselves as equals and experts. At the same time they may have no original thoughts of their own, having no respect for original thinking from anyone they don’t believe is qualified, even before they look at the questions and answers. Without authority they are not valid.
In a sense I feel ownership of my thinking authenticity. But, what I also know is that it all belongs to life, to everyone.
Then I realize it is like socialism’s root image of life without ownership.
This raises a serious question and examination of the understanding of Ego’s sense of entitlement, of “ownership”. How can any living thing “own” life?
“I created it, but you own it?” “I invented it, but you own the profit?” Why?
Regardless of how I choose to feel, I have to follow the principle of integrity and truth. I have to give myself to what I do without ownership of even my authenticity. So I need not be afraid of any of this, of ownership or its loss as of this day 02/20/2019. I have been ignorant and unaware of Diderot and I now join in his consciousness.
I won’t be able to give enough time to reading and studying his encyclopedia, but I will know that I am writing in the same book.
I feel fortunate to have stumbled across what I will call ‘The Mind” of the enlightenment. The enlightenment is like a projection of consciousness that could replace and answer the tyranny of possession and ownership that has been the root cause of oppressive civilization as we know it, it’s hierarchy of tyranny.
This understanding is what I have sought to figure out for many years. I see it as a pathology that has matured into a full fledged, inflamed, deceased, and dysfunctional social crisis. And I ‘know’ this “Owning” thing to be at the core of the awakening to understanding the social order called the “Enlightenment”, meaning insight into its nature and cause. Which is the offspring of the Ego’s feelings of ownership embedded in the neural matrix of the human animal, inherited and transmitted in our DNA.
I realized, in first learning and having an immediate comprehension of what I understood, that I “owned”, that Diderot also owned, real, actual insight.
What an exciting discovery! It’s a revelation and affirmation of what has been, for the most part, a singular journey within myself.
Life is universal. It’s discoveries, revelations, and creations cannot be possessed or owned. These things are simply nourishment for life, for all who can and will consume and take into their understanding, into their use and development.
What a unique day.