There were a few things coming together in a synchronistic way. Food for thought.

I was thinking this:

I could call that a “life world” now; though I haven’t really thought that way much. But as I think of it now, it seems to be more apropos. Even in just the average context, it seems to be a combination of internal and external factors. Its more than just an idea of oneself, for its situated in other situations like one’s family, social elements, etc. It has an abstract element as well: people are taking on roles, activities, ways . . . whatever. There’s an idea behind these; and people react in various ways, whether they agree with them or not. I haven’t heard the idea of this combo in either psychology or sociology; so it looks like I’m being your scientist.

But being true to man’s multi-level nature: beyond the typical physical, social levels, and its ideas, there are another levels.

Then, finding various topics:

• A Buddhist scholar has written that the “mindstream” is “as a combination of matter and a permanent mental principle (atman), is in reality a continuously changing stream of that which from one viewpoint is believed to be matter and from another a mind. However, what we call the mental and the material occurs in a unity of organization.”.
• To gain mastery over dream and sleep is to gain mastery over your own mind. The real point isn’t to control your dreams but rather to have control over your mind. By gaining mastery over your mind, you become fearless in the dark. The nighttime yogas can illuminate and therefore eliminate fear, the primordial emotion of samsara.
• Dream yoga also develops both relative and absolute siddhi, or psychic power. Relative siddhi is when you have power over the world; absolute siddhi is when the world no longer has power over you. In terms of relative siddhi, masters who have accomplished dream yoga and truly see the world as a dream can manipulate the physical world as if it is no longer physical. Miracles happen when you tune in to the miraculous and illusory nature of reality. Christ did it, the Buddha did it, and masters from any tradition can do it. Khenpo Tsültrim Gyamtso Rinpoche says, “It is possible to trust such accounts if you understand that the nature of samsara is indivisible appearance and emptiness like a dream or a magical illusion.”
• In the case of absolute siddhi, which is much more important, dream yoga reveals the dreamlike nature of experience, and therefore it has less power over us. The world only has the power we give to it, a power we unwittingly bestow when we take things to be real. If we freeze the world into concrete and steel, that nightmare of reification can hurt us. That’s what it means to be non-lucid—taking appearances to be real when they are not. If we see the world as illusory, it can’t fundamentally hurt us. That’s what it means to be lucid—to cut through delusory appearances to the truth.

Figure/ground . . . can see how that could include all sides here. Hmmm. Intent is functioning here: its energy, consciousness; and underneath, matter is energy. Life world, an abstraction; but as above/ so below.