Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

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leis-

PIE base ‘track, furrow’.

Other derivatives are lore ‘knowledge passed from generation to generation by oral tradition’, a last ‘form shaped like a human foot’, as a footprint, to last ‘to hold out, endure, continue, follow a track’, and delirium, from Latin delirium ‘to be deranged’, for leaving the track.

[Pokorny *leis- p. 671.]

learn

Learning is an evolutionary process that takes place in the mind and psyche, as noogenesis and psychogenesis, following on from the evolution of the species, as biogenesis. Etymologically, to learn means following a track laid down by our parents, teachers, and their forebears.

But because evolution has been more divergent than convergent for thousands of years, our minds have become specialized and fragmented and so these tracks have led humankind in many different directions—into confusion.