Unfortunately, we have not yet found a shortcut for developing this repository of experiences and the corresponding heuristics derived from it.
There is also the possibility that wisdom is not achieved through the intellect but through experience. Indeed this is what all the wisdom texts have said for thousand and thousand of years. That is why they use phrases like “He who tastes knows”, “To ask about experience is absurd, because experience is the annihilation of speech” or “The way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk”. I am not making a rational argument for the reality or not of this perspective but why would we use a different word (wisdom) if it is still rationality? And if you agree (and I think you do) that it is not rationality then your question “How do we amplify wisdom?” has been answered by the wise. People first study for years the teaching stories and other writings of the wisdom traditions in their modern form. Then some may, presumably, find a teacher that guides them through experiences to go further.
Increasing our capacity for intelligence and rationality without a corresponding increase in wisdom.. ..may be dangerous.
Exactly. It is my estimation as well that this is where we are. There are attempts to create a rational bridge to the wisdom traditions but the rationalists would have to stop calling anything that is not rationality ‘magic’ in a derogatory manner and study the material.
There is also the possibility that wisdom is not achieved through the intellect but through experience. Indeed this is what all the wisdom texts have said for thousand and thousand of years. That is why they use phrases like “He who tastes knows”, “To ask about experience is absurd, because experience is the annihilation of speech” or “The way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk”. I am not making a rational argument for the reality or not of this perspective but why would we use a different word (wisdom) if it is still rationality? And if you agree (and I think you do) that it is not rationality then your question “How do we amplify wisdom?” has been answered by the wise. People first study for years the teaching stories and other writings of the wisdom traditions in their modern form. Then some may, presumably, find a teacher that guides them through experiences to go further.
Exactly. It is my estimation as well that this is where we are. There are attempts to create a rational bridge to the wisdom traditions but the rationalists would have to stop calling anything that is not rationality ‘magic’ in a derogatory manner and study the material.