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9d13">As the thing in itself cannot be known, we are left with patterns of rationality as the only relevant reality (idealism). These patterns of intelligibility structure reality, and like living things they can develop towards more rational states. The name for this kind of extended mind in German is <b>Geist</b>, meaning a combination of mind and spirit.</p><p id="8020">The development of Geist is driven by two processes: <b>differentiation / articulation</b>, and <b>integration</b>. Together, they comprise the <b>systematization</b> of the world itself. This autonomous system gradually evolves as it synthesizes opposing ideas through the dialectical process. In this way, rationality (and thereby reality) realizes itself, ultimately becoming self-aware in the form of the World Spirit (or God).</p><p id="ce4a">One of the consequences is that God, as the self-organizing principle of reality, is again seen as rational, and we can again access the divine through rational reflection. Hegel is effectively translating religion into philosophy.</p><p id="fbc4">While popular in his time, Hegel’s ideas faced critiques on numerous front

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s:</p><ul><li>Schopenhauer (and later Nietzsche) considered the intelligibility patterns to be driven by will (Will to Live, Will to Power), making them fundamentally irrational and arbitrary.</li><li>Kierkegaard criticized Hegel’s philosophy for being a purely intellectual system lacking in the participatory knowledge needed to cultivate wisdom. From the Kierkegaardian perspective, our attempts to realize the divine have been severed from personal transformation (they do not compel us to take the “leap of faith”).</li><li>Marx saw religion as an opium distracting us from the reality of how socioeconomic forces shape history through conflict. The participation that Hegel inherently lacked, Marx provided through a call to political and economic revolution.</li></ul><p id="dc4e"><a href="https://readmedium.com/summary-of-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-chapter-23-romanticism-0ded8b29cb29">Previous chapter: Romanticism</a></p><p id="24a8"><a href="https://readmedium.com/summary-of-awakening-from-the-meaning-crisis-by-john-vervaeke-chapter-25-the-clash-a8ea65710b2d">Next chapter: The Clash</a></p></article></body>

Divinity Mirrors

What are you reflecting and what are you seeing?

Many people will go through an entire day without having their divinity mirrored back to them. Sure, people will mirror judgments, guilt, anger, depression, pessimism, and a host of other issues, but not the abundance and joy and love that is everyone’s birthright and natural way of life. There is a god in everyone, but that god is almost never mirrored back to the person, so the person forgets they are a god.

When you are not aware of your divinity, you are not feeling it and projecting it, and therefore it will not be reflected back to you. Unless, of course, you happen to run into someone who sees the divinity in you despite the fact that you are not projecting it or are even aware of it. Let us say you have gone a year and eight months without your divinity being reflected back to you. For all that time, all that has been reflected to you is judgment and fear and lack and all those other mind games. Then, one day, you run into someone who floods you with unconditional love and treats you as though you were a god.

How does this make you feel?

And how does it feel to be the one projecting the unconditional love?

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