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Despite its narrowness of vision and dimness of consciousness, this human activity of information-processing has for centuries now been seen by many people as the command centre and the controlling-consciousness of the human psyche. Yet close investigation makes it clear that this ‘human information machine’ is normally driven and directed by the data that enters it; that like our modern-day computers, it is subject to the terrible law GIGO: the 1960’s acronym of computer science that means ‘Garbage In Garbage Out.’ For this principle that what our thinking produces depends on what first comes into it applies to much of human thought.

Yet in the first years of life, as Russian developmental psychologist Vygotsky discovered in the 1930’s, most of these ideas still lack what would be known semantically as ‘referents’. They have not yet been connected meaningfully to experience.

If the body is the metabolic organism, the serpent or dragon - in Saint Paul’s terms; the animal nature in man – then the images and ideas exist in what we know as the ordinary so-called conscious mind, which is in the Greek psyche. Psyche in Greek means soul, and also life. It comes into being with every breath. It is what ‘departs’ when the body stops breathing and dies. The physical and psychological levels interact through the generation of energy by the breath. There exists a state of awareness in which we become aware of the constant reawakening of our awareness with each successive cycle of the breath. Thoughts, feelings, sensations – everything rises and falls with the light evoked by the breath, but we do not usually perceive this because we rise and fall with it.

Caught in this way, within the psyche, we find that with every breath attention is established. With every breath, attention is lost. When attention is lost, control is lost. This is the fallen state of man, in which psyche gets its continuity only from its use of memory.

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PRAXIS PAST

praxis web 4 ARCHIVES

including most of the text articles from praxis Web 4. Main texts are listed with simple descriptions under CONTENTS and more fully under ABSTRACTS

* CONTENTS

* ABSTRACTS

A New Vision

The Ark

Text List

A Different Christianity

Philosophers of God

St. Gregory Palamas

Cross-fertilisation

Abstraction & attention

Lost Doctrines

Lost Christian truths