The A Priori Fallacy of Kant

Dialectics was the most important part of Socrates’ philosophy, of which the Socratic dialogue is the only part that is understood by academics.

Its most important parts are the metaphysical principles that he established, such as:

• the immortality of the soul and its reincarnation
• the pantheist God (Brahma) as the source of all souls
• the superiority of the metaphysical over the physical
• and so on

Nowadays, people think of dialectics as merely an exercise in logic, without any reference to metaphysical truths, the Supreme, or problem-solving. The culprits are the 19th century philosophers led by Kant who corrupted metaphysics.

The Error in Kant’s Definition

Like the 18th century philosophers, Kant divides all knowledge as experiential (a posteriori), and non-experiential (a priori). Traditionally:

• a priori means ‘before experience’
  • Omniscience, prediction, prophecy, and intuition all fall under this, because you know something in advance before it actually happens
  • This is the effect of the higher mind or Mahat in Hinduism
  • This is what Ontolgy is supposed to deal with
• a posteriori means ‘after experience’
  • This is how we normally know things – by experiencing them, either directly (as in seeing things) or indirectly (as in education or someone else telling you what they saw or know)
  • This is the effect of the lower mind or Aham in Hinduism. Both Mahat and Aham form citta.
  • This is what Epistemology is supposed to deal with

However, Kant corrupts the word a priori by defining it as perceptions that are confined to the mind and a posteriori as outside the mind.

He calls the within-the-mind mental activities as intutional or passive-thinking, and the outside-the-mind mental ones as active-thinking that connects impressions with each other, even with those ideas within the mind.

So we can simplify Kant’s words as follows:

This simplifies the statement:

Geometry is a science which determines the properties of space synthetically, and yet à priori.

into:

Geometry determines the properties of space through active-thinking, yet confined-to-the-mind.

Much easier, huh?

Kant then combines these concepts to create the metaphysical question:

In other words, Kant asks: How does the mind think?

This has already been solved by the Asian sciences through the dynamics of the atman, mahat, aham, citta, lokas, samskara, etc. They already realized that the world was not real. And so their goal was to stop the thinking process by uniting their minds with the Supreme Mind who was already omniscient and didn’t need to think.

Basically, the impressions from the lower (aham) and higher minds (mahat) are assembled in the mind-stuff (citta) to be experienced by the soul (atman) acccording to its configuration (samskara).

Kant’s Corruption of How the Mind Thinks: Mathematics

The proper understanding of the soul and its connection to the Supreme, as the totality of all possible physical and metaphysical experiences, is essential in answering how the mind really thinks.

The Asian sciences have this understanding because the Asian sages were superior to Western ones in detecting the upper Elements of high vibration as aether and spacetime (traditional air Element).

• The Western sages were superior in detecting the lower Elements of low vibration, as matter and electromagnetism (Earth and Fire Elements respectively).
• So Asia dominates Metaphysics and Philosophy just as the West dominates Physics and Science.

Kant, as a Westerner, imposes shallow low-vibration principles in to high-vibration metaphysics by:

1. Blocking out the sensory world (i.e. the physical aspects of the Supreme)
2. Imposing his own arbitrary abstractions and formalizing them as principles

You are Your Own Math-God

Abstractions work because each person is the god of his own mental universe.

The 2 systemic mental processes are logic and mathematics*.

Everyone is free to make up their own equations and logic in their own minds. But whether they work in reality is a sign of how a mind is attuned to reality.*

Before Kant’s time, the experts in causality were priests. Thanks to Kant, the false experts are now mathematicians.

This is proven by the priest-physicist Lemaitre who pegged the cause of the universe to a Big Bang, made acceptable because it matches the math of the day.

Kant’s Corruption of How the Mind Thinks: Epistemology

Kant’s separation of reality and the senses from the thinking process mixes up knowledge, facts-from-memory, opinions, and beliefs, like mixed fruit, since all of these are a priori or within-the-mind.

• knowledge and facts are demonstrative and real
• opinions and beliefs may or may not be real

To solve this non-problem, academics had to create “Epistemology” which is supposed to re-separate fact from opinion. This then adds unnecessary effort when the whole problem could have been avoided by not mixing up fact and opinion in the first place.

Academics and intellectuals would then create courses on useless epistemology to give employment to themselves.

The original tool to split fact from opinion is called dialectics.

Let’s say you get an idea to increase sales in your company. You are not sure whether it is correct or not.

• A common-sense person would ask his colleague immediately whether his idea would work
• But a Kantian would keep on developing that sales-idea in his own mind into a million-dollar campaign with huge sales projections even if it had zero reality (because the goal is the thinking process and not any real effects)

This same problem afflicts modern Physics which created useless theories like Supersymmetry, Loop Quantum Gravity, and String Theory.

The Cause of Kant’s Corruption: Ego

The common flaw with failed theorists is that their ideas are based on their own ego, which has a limited view of reality.

Kant got triggered by the genious of David Hume who explained how the mind works by connecting ideas and impressions.

Hume did not give details of the Supreme Cause of how the mind works because he never had any Asian sage tell him how the upper Elements work.

But Kant, fueled by ego, foolishly pushes forward and enshrines imagination as the cause. This has led to seemingly advanced concepts, such as those used in theoretical physics (such Relativity and Yang Mills), but are actually useless.

The overstrength of the ego is addressed by spirituality which is the expertise of the Asian sciences, not of Western religion.