{"id":2074,"date":"2025-07-24T09:11:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:11:35","slug":"wednesday-thought-for-the-day-7-23-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wednesday-thought-for-the-day-7-23-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Thought for the Day 7.23.25"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thought for the Day<\/span><br \/>\nWednesday, July 23, 2025<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Plato distinguished four stages of mind: <em>ignorance<\/em>, <em>opinion<\/em>, <em>reason<\/em>, and<em> intelligence.<\/em> At a time when humans are facing extinction, it would seem apparent that humans would need to call upon the highest forms of intelligence to deal with what needs to be faced. But we seem to be in a time when intelligence is being abandoned, reason is being devalued, opinion is becoming more and more <em>wrong<\/em> opinion (as Plato described), and we are sinking into the quagmire of ignorance. I am more and more impressed by the resistance dreams are showing to this decimating process. If anything, the dreams I am seeing are showing higher and higher degrees of intelligence, particularly those dreams of depth that are springing forth from \u201cthe other.\u201d Look for dreams and other manifestations of the depth psyche to provide immunity to the calamitous processes taking hold of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Russ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought for the Day Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Plato distinguished four stages of mind: ignorance, opinion, reason, and intelligence. At a time when humans are facing extinction, it would seem apparent that humans would need to call upon the highest forms of intelligence to deal with what needs to be faced. But we seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2075,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}