Rhythms of Reality: The Pitfalls of Finite Thinking in Understanding Causation

Your limits will always make you lack the true fulfillment of the limitless.

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I am not sure how many of you are familiar with Rudolf Steiner, but I have begun the initiation of what he referred to as the “path of fire,” as described in his book Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment. This journey has allowed me to see deeper into the hidden veils of life and understand the laws that govern all events. Minimizing our thinking can cause us to miss many details of causation. On average, we tend to look for the most apparent connections we can witness. Is it the apparency? Or is it the finite nature of the human mind? Emphasizing the finite nature of human thought, there is an opportunity to evolve this nature when we escape the grasp of limitation.

The law of cause and effect teaches us that for every cause, there is an effect, and for every effect, there is a cause. Everything is connected; nothing is random. Coincidence is merely a misunderstanding of the law in action.

But how does this relate to you?

Understanding cause and effect is crucial because it allows you to develop a system to methodically counter the things that delay your progress in life. This principle is a universal gift or tracking system that enables you to trace a consequence back to an action. If you can become aware of a particular action that produces an undesirable result, you can develop the habit of action that will deliver the results that please you. In other words, you’ll create efficient habits by recognizing the inefficient ones.

From an entry-level understanding of this principle, I think we’ve limited causation to being a singular happening and don’t fathom that it can multiply itself. Causation can be multiplied. I believe we get lazy at the idea of more details when we just wish to define something. You can find many causes in one event. For example, in a game of beer pong, players take a ping pong ball and aim to throw it directly inside a cup. The first causation starts with how the ball is held, then there’s the velocity of how it’s thrown, another factor may be the angle, and if the room is windy, that’s another causation. This leads me to ponder: is probability just another version of what humans call coincidence to comfort ourselves with the inability to wrap our heads around a reality that has endless explanations?

“To think universally is to think freely and inhabit endless freedom, but to think finitely is to be captive by limits.” - The Great Raw

What are your thoughts? I, for one, don’t like to take away from the lessons that age-old and continuous mysteries give us. Until next time, Dark Vibez for life.