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Mental agitation and identity crisis, arising from the lack of peace and harmony within the world of forms, drive the human being toward analytical experience and the extraction of meaning from the shaped world. The innate power of the mind makes one a thinking being. A passive form-based mind, which is bewildered and confused by formal phenomena, moves toward arrangement and order and begins to structure itself. This structured state is a manifestation of prescriptive or legislative guidance.
The output of this active mental structure is reflected in hypotheses, theories, problem formulations, approaches, and systematic experiments. These approaches gradually evolve into specific subject-based rules, which form the foundation of human life and existence.
The most significant obstacle to prescriptive guidance is the presence of inactive form-based minds. These minds, in contrast to active minds, rely on habit and repetitive routines. An active mind is a blessing, as it transforms quantitative, form-based living into qualitative, meaningful life — a process that yields positive growth. An inactive mind, however, is a curse, as yielding to it results in a meaningless existence and negative progression.
Positive progression is a movement toward self-knowledge, while negative progression leads to its denial, resulting in confusion and loss.