The Cartesian dualism is strictly for division of Mind and Body, not between Reality and Ideal world, or old and new ways of thinking.
Just wondering if English is your first language ?
Yes, if you do a quick scan on wiki that is what you might come up with. I am talking about the effect the whole movement and philosophy has had on western thinking. Its implications and what came from it .... not its 'strict' deffinition.
Do you really think it is 'strictly for division of body and mind ' (and I am not sure what that means due to the wording ? )
Do you think the Pre- Cartesians did not see a difference between body and mind and Descartes was the first to realise they were not the same ?
You won't get that I mean with a quick scan, which is why I supplied you with the best and easiest reference to understand it ... and even said the first chapter alone will help comprehension immensely.
It isnt just about division of mind and body ... its the whole viewpoint and mind set of the western mind.
It is about the distinction between the real and the ideal but not about old and new ways of thinking as a type of dualism, the old and new ways of thinking are the results of a non- dualistic approach and a dualist one.
The knowledge of mundane and spiritual world is surely different state of consciousness.
No , you are trapped in dualism, this is what I mean . You need to escape from that before you can escape from the tree of life
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There is no mundane AND spiritual world there is THE world and it is 'spiritual' . I know that is hard to understand with the modern mind, it is conditioned by concepts of the fall of man or an original 'division' in theology that had a socio - political problem injected into it ( re the first dualist philosophy in Zoroastrianism and the origins of 'Ahriman' ) . The state of consciousness required is singular, not a shift from one to another to comprehend the different worlds - because there are no different worlds.
You need to somewhat elevate your consciousness and enter into the realm of ideal world to be able to think, see and know things in metaphysical level.
Do I ?
In order to communicate with angels and demons, you need to have an altered state of mind.
Only if it was altered away from that in the first place. I can assure you, I have contact with Australian Aboriginals that sleep, wake, eat, walk and go to work , etc, that are continually in 'an altered state of mind' .
The western mind has been torn apart, half of it can send probes to Io, the other half suffers depression, psychosis, comes up with crazy stuff to explain what they want, need, have to feel, about these things (everything from Grey alien overlords to covering their and their dog's head with alfoil ) ... and spends the rest of the time trying to contemplate purpose or denying that there is one.
And an aweful lot of time watching silly you-tube videos (who anyone can make and pretend to know what they are talking about ) instead of reading educated scolars or taking courses
C'est la ( moderne) vie < shrug> .