Dominion of Power

Month, Day: Power, Dominion (Independence)

One thing that an audacious approach will have to do is look at juxtapositions and to make these as acceptable as superpositions (et al).

We can start by listing, and starting some description of, categories and properties. In other words, an explanatory (mind you, not interpretative) effort will be required.

But, one fun way to start might be just to list areas that are apropos, and perhaps speculate (let's say, it's science fiction in the beginning). In the meantime, a couple of references are in order.

So, for number one, we'll use the dominion of power. As we see in SAQ #66: Some think that the body is the substance and exists by itself, and that the spirit is accidental and depends upon the substance of the body, although, on the contrary, the rational soul is the substance, and the body depends upon it.

And, again, from SAQ #66: The rational soul—that is to say, the human spirit—has neither entered this body nor existed through it; so 240 after the disintegration of the composition of the body, how should it be in need of a substance through which it may exist? On the contrary, the rational soul is the substance through which the body exists.

So much to say on this, Speech starts on 11/23.

Now, Power to one type of mind means guns and battleships, or the proverbial kick-em hard mindset. If we look around, we'll see that all cultures have their hawks and doves, to use a common metaphor.

The December Smithsonian Magazine has an article on the Sufi. It even juxtaposes them to the Taliban. Well, we know that the latter are hard-nosed authoritarians.

What are the former? Well, we would need to look at the 7 Valleys (actually, start at Unity and go upward) to get an idea.

Sufi is the antithesis of the hard-nosed.

Modified: 11/22/2008