It's interesting to see the argument and conjecture he had with Einstein, whether Bergson didn't properly understand the Physics or Einstein didn't properly understand the Philosophy
Bergson's four major works, for those who want to look into them:
1889, Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience)
1896, Matter and Memory (Matière et mémoire)
1907, Creative Evolution (L'Évolution créatrice)
1932, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion)
One hour away
Like I said in the Monday Class, are you actually any closer ...?
One of his most controversial arguments was the understanding of reality through immediate experience and intuition - this is consistent with what I said Class about the answers being in the kata eg Five Swords
Don't go outside the technique or add to it - that becomes abstraction
I have always seen these concepts in the Savate ABC, though no evidence there is a direct connection - though considering Henri was prominent up to the start of WW2 in France, which was the apex of development in Savate at the Salles at the time, it seems too much to be a complete cooincidence
Of course we also see the three principles of Newtonian Mechanics in the Tai Chi forms, so this may just be another Shiro Tora innovation that nobody else is doing yet
Bergson quotes
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality
Predicting The Matrix:
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance
As I said a lot of these concepts appear n the Kata, which mean the Karate and Kung Fu Masters, as well as the Kali, Savate Silat, etc Masters, knew all this and didn't know how to articulate in, so put it in a different way to pass it on
A lot of this is in JKD as well, Bruce was noticing stuff that was always there, that he wasn't directly taught, that he couldn't explain
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None of this is invented, just discovered, it's the methods of passing it on, teaching it, that are invented, t
The odd thing is that this time distortion, which everyone recognises, is a living experience of the Theory Of Relativity - but then look at the arguments the two of them had, they didn't even agree on what they disagreed or agreed on.
A great explanation of Relativity in terms of personal time:
"Put your hand on a hot stove, and a second can feel like an hour.
Put your hand on a hot woman, and an hour can feel like a second."
As as we all know that Einstein fucked Marilyn Monroe (look it up) he would probably get this better than anyone
The Matrix "prediction" again:
Predicting The Matrix:
Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance
This is the "blue pill/red pill" - and we are seeing a lot of this in society at the moment - the blue pill sheep in their masks driving alone, etc, and we have been discussing this in person when we meet for training since early last year when it started
It also, of course, applies again to the fantasy stuff like Krav where the blue pills stuck in it cannot wake up and accept reality - and the Red Pills who train in Reality systems
