Knowledge is...

[nyyki]

Power.
This is the one we all hear all the time, so I thought I'd start with it. We can thank our Hellenic ancestors, who valued this trait so well, especially the Ionians who settled the Attic plains. And to a certain level it's true. When you know something, it empowers you in that it gives you the ability to use that knowledge to effect change in the world around you. This the most self evident of the answers here.

Responsibility.
When you know something, you're then responsible for that knowledge. This is especially true of things gained from metaphysical methods, as these things are not lying on the ground for anyone to find for a very good reason. Some information is just too pivotal to release to someone, with ramifications that could dramatically change the path someone walks or rob them of a key lesson they came here to learn. Knowledge is power, and that power has to be used responsibly.

Slavery.
First, knowledge locks us into it's way of doing things. It shackles us to a specific paradigm, and unless the person with it is used to process improvement procedures and switching paradigms it will result in someone using the knowledge instead of looking at how other ways might be better in the next situation things come up. Also, knowledge is slavery because when we know something on a metaphysical level often we can't act on it, so we're damned with knowledge that can only haunt instead of fulfill. This is an especial trap for people practicing divination, as that knowledge can both limit our focus, thereby causing us to miss things, and also shackle us with feelings and information we cannot act upon.

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I like this.....

Nice.