{"id":2659,"date":"2017-10-23T19:29:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T03:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2017-10-23T19:29:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T03:29:46","slug":"the-evolution-of-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2659","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found a book by a fellow who appreciates bird songs, Professor Richard O. Prum, who wrote a book called The Evolution of Beauty<\/em><\/strong> (New York: Doubleday. 2017). What struck me about the book is that Beauty is a transcendental quality vaguely describable by humans, but it really belongs to the 8th dimension.<\/p>\n

This requires a recognition that mind is a dimension as much as time and three-dimensional matter. While mind is a 5th dimension, mind that thinks about mind is yet a higher dimension, a 6th dimension\u2014which humans do.<\/p>\n

Some relatively few professors think about thinking, they think about thinking about mind. I don\u2019t know how few of those realize that they\u2019re at another level altogether, a higher, 7th level. They\u2019re doing it, but not realizing it. To say again, mind that thinks about thinking about mind is what some professors do, though they don\u2019t realize that it\u2019s another whole dimension.<\/p>\n

Beauty and mysticism operates yet one step higher, at the 8th dimension,  more abstract, and with many richer qualities that are hard to describe\u2014really, almost impossible. Blinding insight, gnosis, whatever, it becomes \u201call so obvious\u201d to those who experience wholes this way. Most people find it unbelievable, mysterious, and often \u201cfake.\u201d But it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s difficult to talk about epistemology\u2014thinking about how we \u201cknow\u201d what we think we know. At any rate, many people from different angles are getting close to contemplating the the philosophy of beauty\u2014also known as aesthetics. Having the courage to say it belongs to birds is striking\u2014one need not have much brain.\u201d  (Then again, Winnie-the-Pooh, \u201ca bear of very little brain,\u201d as he described himself, although a character created by A. A. Milne, became a classic figure in children\u2019s literature!)<\/p>\n

That is to say, simplicity, innocence, directness\u2014these virtues may have been what Jesus meant when he said \u201cUnless ye become like little children…\u201d \u2014a mark of if not higher consciousness, at least openness to higher consciousness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found a book by a fellow who appreciates bird songs, Professor Richard O. Prum, who wrote a book called The Evolution of Beauty (New York: Doubleday. 2017). What struck me about the book is that Beauty is a transcendental quality vaguely describable by humans, but it really belongs to the 8th dimension. This requires […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35,26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-mind-spectrums","category-psychology","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2660,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}