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Perceptivity-centered consciousness is a developmental stage of consciousness in its apprehension of reality. When the integration of knowledge reaches a critical point, consciousness begins to see its perceptual experience in the context of conceptually integrated knowledge and goes beyond its perceptually or subjectively bound experiences to awaken into objectivity. If left free and unhindered, every child as well as humanity as a whole innately transcends the perceptivity-centered modality to advance its knowledge in the objectively defined context of reality.
Conceptuality-centered consciousness is consciousness qua consciousness. Mysticism, unless it is identified and corrected, prevents or truncates forever consciousness' integrating growth into maturity. Consciousness is self-correcting epistemologically and self-controlling cybernetically. If it could identify its internal mysticism, it would self-correct its devastating errors and cure the disease that is mysticism. However, in history, this correction or healing, except for a few rare individuals, did not take place until today. The external force that prevents consciousness from self-correcting is neocheating.
Neocheating is the deliberate manipulation of mysticism in others. It is the poison-feeding of mysticism in others. Mysticism came into existence 3000 years ago with the birth of consciousness, and with it came its symbiotic neocheating. However, it was not until Plato formulated his philosophy that a systematic and conceptual framework was supplied in which to carry on neocheating. It was Plato who not only rationalized mysticism but also capitalized on it to create a brilliantly fabricated, yet devastatingly destructive philosophical system that provided the conceptual tools of neocheating for millennia to come. Through Plato and his philosophy, the whole matrix of neocheating was set, the spell of mysticism was deliberately cast upon humanity, and the reign of master neocheaters became firmly established in the course of history.
Platonistic philosophy begins by accepting the primacy of consciousness, that is, by reversing the relationship of consciousness to existence. It assumes that reality must conform to the content of consciousness, not the other way around, based upon the premise that the presence of any concept in consciousness proves the existence of a corresponding referent in reality. Plato thus validates de jure self-made realities while invalidating de facto reality as such.
According to Plato, the content of "true" reality is a set of universals or Forms that represent that which is in common among various groups of particulars in this world. He repeatedly insists that the Forms are what is "really" real. The particulars they subsume, the concrete objects that constitute this world, are not. Although he asserts that the Forms are immutable, timeless, intellectually apprehensible, and capable of precise definition at the end of a piece of "pure ratiocination" because they are independently existing entities in "reality", he never once elucidates in a rational context how that apprehension or definition can be achieved.
Although epistemo-contextually integrated reality is abstraction in the final analysis, yielding to crystallization in the form of concepts through the process of appropriation by consciousness, it is in the final analysis that reality is abstraction and through the process of appropriation by consciousness that reality is crystallized -- apprehended and defined -- in the form of concepts. Existence exists and exists independently of consciousness. Consciousness does not and cannot create reality; it is metaphysically passive. Consciousness exists to identify reality or existence and in the very fact that consciousness must exist to be conscious of reality or existence, the primacy of existence to consciousness is evident.
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