Tuesday, August 11, 2015

It Takes One to Know One!


I campaign to keep the word GROK alive into the next generation and beyond. This "Martian" word (invented by the SF writer, Robert Heinlein) shares its meaning with the Sanskrit word jnana and the Greek gnosis. It is an utterly comprehensive meaning, which the philosopher Franklin Merrill-Wolff calls “Knowledge through Identity.” In other words, knowing directly—knowing by BEING—rather than merely “knowing about.” 

Do you grok what I'm saying?


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