77. Where is rationality?

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If we only think rationally, logically, without intellect—according to worldviews, which today are mostly referred to as the mainstream suggested by the media—then we join the masses who deny existence, because by thinking in terms of materialism, they focus solely on earthly life. The mass man accepts worldviews, power structures, the foolishness stirred up and maintained by the media, and the democratic slavery. He believes that only what is tangible and visible exists. What is beyond matter simply does not exist. The rationalist mass man is materialistic, incapable of understanding knowledge that transcends life, the metaphysical realm. He could be capable of it, but he has not been taught this; on the contrary, he has been taught to deny it. 

Since he only thinks in terms of matter, he easily and surely operates in the realm of external experiences, so if he engages with the inner world at all, he interprets it as external. Rationality and cognitive knowledge lack depth and personal connection—though they do have individuality—whatever others say about the true and normal human being, he does not care. Both rational and meaningful qualities exist in everyone. It depends on us which "self" we live by, and which is the dominant "self." If we are indifferent, impersonal, and factual, then our individual self leads us, and our universal self is pushed into the background. What we think, say, and do does not reflect the order of the One, but rather a meticulous, quantitative system. This paradoxical situation is the source of our individual crisis, into which we have been swept by soulless knowledge and the madness of the pursuit of power. 

Today, mind, rationality, individuality, and the dark side of duality, the night, have preceded the soul’s intellect, universality, and the bright side of duality, the day. The part takes over the whole. It has become important that the sum of the parts gives the whole (quantity), rather than the parts carrying the whole (quality), even though the entire hologram exists in every fragment. Rationality is what converts knowledge into power, exercising power with its apparatus and maintaining the crisis. 

Rationality cannot resolve the crisis because it is the source of the crisis. Quantity excludes wisdom and metaphysics. If rational thinking is our guiding self, we are spiritually blind, wandering in the dark, sticking to lower-level knowledge that always pushes us to hurry, rush, and exercise power, when we throw all our energy into achieving what we want. We are in a state of constant readiness and always want to act. This mass hysteria, the sinking into matter caused by rationality, the straying, the sleepwalking, blindness, rushing, rampaging, and self-mutilation, when we are constantly stalking our prey, is almost unfathomable. But there is a simple explanation: it’s easier this way. Those who eagerly embrace the "ease" of life are primarily the religions and the sciences. 

Our rational behaviour is on the top when we act according to the current ideal, worldview, or power interest. Since our rational behaviour is not constant, we are often able to improvise. As opportunists, we can improvise in business, politics, art, or anywhere, because we have no fixed point (our self, the centre where the intersection of the above and below meet) to which we cling. We treat everything as external, so we withdraw our true self (our inner self) from action. We like to take our share of everything, to satisfy our hunger for life, to exploit situations, in other words, we strive to be up to date and successful. People of this character, where the individual self dominates, live and multiply by thousands in large cities, whether they are diplomats, artists, doctors, journalists, politicians, bankers, soldiers, teachers, priests, or scientists, for whom life is just an adventure, not a sacred one. 

They are the tourists passing through life, not living in it, but outside of it. If we want to go beyond the material, predictable, and precise rationality, and the manipulated worldviews, we must strive for the highest spiritual level, the nearness of the One. We must turn inward and return to the fundamental position, to the point of origin and arrival (birth and death together), where we find our universal self, the One. Once we find it, we must allow it to lead us. Only then can our universal, open, and positive human consciousness become achievable. Our life is an opportunity, but also a task, to shape ourselves into true and normal human beings, to stand face-to-face with the rational, material, and quantitative mass man. 

Christian tradition, the gospel, and the holy books teach us how to be normal, true, and noble human beings who do not bow down to worldviews, religions, or Pharisee behaviour. They also show us how to live so that we can manifest the original centre within ourselves. The normal and true person lives in freedom and order, does not elbow his way through, does not trample others, does not collect, is not a slave, is not a hero, is not a saint, is not successful, does not have a religion—in short, he does not place himself between the other person and the One. Yet, he is not indifferent, not detached, but diligent, slightly passionate, melancholic, and groove, because he knows that through groove, one can become normal. Groove, transcendence, is what restores order and freedom, where the confusion and deviation of the soul cease, what the Bible would call sin.