The Basics and Beyond

A typical conscious/unconscious relationship may be like this:

“In a figure that strikingly anticipates the insights of Freudian psychology, Schopenhauer compares the human mind to a body of water. Conscious ideas are on the surface, but the depths consist of “the indistinct, the feelings, the after-sensation of perceptions and intuitions and what is experienced in general, mingled with the disposition of our own will that is the kernel of our inner nature.”

~ Roger Kimball. “Lives of the mind: The use and abuse of intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse (Schopenhauer’s Worlds).” 2002, p. 147. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee.

This conscious mind is also said to follow the structure of our society, culture. So, from here we have to deal with our feelings, sensations, desires, etc. . . . the socialized versus the wild, uncivilized.

This aspect of the conscious mind, passive, is its lower end. At its higher end, active, it is also aligned, not just with society, but with the universe itself . . . aspects of Knowledge, Meanings, Perceptions! The Earthly versus the Universal!

There’s meanings and knowledge, like little fish swimming around in that little pond, and interconnected to the larger sea, as well. Its hard to say what percentage of the population, though, could move from these more concrete levels to the “knowings,” as one would get when one begins dreaming. Its also about stepping up to the plate . . . there’s further actions possible. We may be considering intrinsic actions here, ways too.  Its not so much about just dreams only . . . I was thinking of the truer reality, and “world views.” This was my beginning rationale, right from the very start; though I became more “psychoanalytic” when I had to deal with people and their various ways.

“An intrinsic self, entwined within the universe, in an interactive field of meaning and knowledge.”


One may have one’s “base state” here, and then have to consider the issues as one moves to the more extended, like Piaget, when we have to assimilate or accommodate the new. Like John Lilly’s +/- 48, neutral biocomputer state, the level of the absorbtion of new data, and +/- 24, professional satori, or a negative troubled state, in which with all the needed programs running in the biocomputer are going smoothly, or not.


Now, I seem to be going through a lot of dreams in which these kinds of rearrangements are going on in various symbolic ways. Some new stages and considerations going on right now.

Just understood how the typical arrangements of people, and the enhanced, fits in here.

To see myself doing this also means my enhanced ways are also working at this level.


So, we have those “models of the world.” They are not a static thing, like an object; for we are actively involved with them. They are an orientation. They go along personally; but are tested by external wills. Though, there are also those more intrinsic levels, aspects of self, enhanced contexts, and as far as most are concerned, the “beyond.” Sure, its about us; but ultimately, its about those further meanings of the universe.

One’s ordinary real life can enter the picture here, or one can be a part of some larger courses of events entering one’s life. No one has it under total control, or knows it all: there’s entire panoramas of experiences occurring, even entering one’s ordinary life, as previously noted.


There are those views. Images aren’t just images, objects . . . the “apparent.” We can be more perspicacious. That’s right at the root of the problem.

We can move from the ordinary, the generic, colloquial, to the enhanced, unique. More creative, intelligent.

The first image of a woman; but then, I saw something like a green globe, like made of stone. Moving in more directly and seeing something more, I expect.

There was another experience from that location, in which that turned into a living drama, like entering a new set, with some woman who could zoom around in it a bit.

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