What is Micrognosis

I want to offer up a brief explanation of what I am calling micrognosis, so that we are all on the same page here.  If you have ever studied a foreign language you will come to a point where there is a word that you must learn that does not have a direct translation in English.  This is an interesting experience the first time you have it.  When you first encounter it, you do your best to try to grasp the meaning of the word.  But because the translation requires multiple words, or even a sentence or two, you become aware that whatever word you are trying to translate is really a totally new concept to you.  For example, the French word sportif has no real great English translation.  A "sportif" is someone who plays a lot of sports, not just a jock or a sportsman or anyone who does a sports.  You can say "do you do sports?" But it doesn't quite mean the same.  To be sportif is to state that is something you ARE not something you DO.  You just are...sportif.  C'est une femme sportive.  To get the gist of it, is to understand it intuitively and to share the same conceptual reality and line of thinking.  This is the premise of micrognosis.  Micro meaning small.  Gnosis, in latin, is knowledge.  Small knowledge.  And by small, I don't mean that to be diminutive in size related to the knowledge or thought.  I mean small in a contained way.  I mean in a way where you are right on the point of understanding something big, and at that point you internalize it and become one with it.  Oprah has called it the A Ha moment.  Some people just say "I get it."  What "it" is, is what is key.  That "it" is that POINT of light, that firefly of a thought, THAT is what we are going to focus on.  So small it almost goes unnoticed.  Micrognosis. 

As we progress, you will begin to understand micrognosis as a means whereby life can become a happy daily occurance.  There are plenty of people out there who teach you life mastery skills.  And all of these are valuable.  But in order to apply those skills you need to have a level of awareness that allows you to connect YOUR point with all the other points out there.  And if you don't know where you're coming from, it doesn't matter how much you read or work or study in attempt to understand how it all works. 

The goal here, if you can call it a goal, is to collapse back onto yourself.  To get to you.  To get to way deep down inside you.  To get to that center point.  That place were the little seed is...the little seed of small knowledge, to give it some water, some fertile soil, some light and encouragement.  The system of micrognosis is outlined in very simple steps, and I will share them with you as I have learned them.  The reason I am doing all this is because I am really frustrated with all this new age stuff.  I don't know about you, but I for one, CANNOT stay in the now.  I try.  I meditate.  I yoga.  I breathe.  But now is so fleeting that I can't stay there.  It's always now, no matter what I'm doing anyway, right?  Can I have more consecutive nows?  Can my next now be longer than my last now?  Now is now.  That's it.  I don't really believe we are supposed to be in the now.  Life is not really meant to be like driving along with the clutch pushed in trying to observe our engine.  And meditating really doesn't raise my awareness.  It's hard.  I'm thinking about things.  I just got a text message, I should check.  I wonder if the phone bill came today, I should check.  I'm focusing on my breathing.  Am I breathing?  I should check.  It's too much. 

So let's start with a little micrognosis here.  This is not going to be a blog that says "just be aware and notice."  If I could do that, I would have done it by now.  This is HOW TO notice and WHEN TO notice and most importantly WHY TO notice.  And once you practice those things, you won't need to meditate.  You'll just get it.  You'll understand intuitively and share the same conceptual reality.  You will know what it means to be ... sportif.