Been relooking at my foundations: if I considered another’s, and it relates to mine:

“Tibetan Dream Yoga begins with attention and knowledge, their first and second gates.”  “Learning to become attentive to the energy that animates life is the first Gateway . . . ” “Attentiveness is understood by perceiving the energy behind the form as opposed to the outer shape or appearance.” “When we move beyond our sensory perceptions that are stifled by our filters, we engage a different Self. This Self perceives with the sixth sense or intuition. When we don’t do anything, and we quiet the mind, this Self provides hunches or intuitions about what is really happening. This signifies that we have stepped through the first Gate of Dreaming and become attentive.” “When we become attentive, we begin to pay attention to reality.” “Being knowledgeable means not relying on past experiences or someone else’s knowledge or opinion. We learn to move into the inner source of knowledge, totally bypassing all of the filters, and learning to perceive energy through intuition.” “We become knowledgeable by finding the Source behind the dream. We perceive knowledge intuitively through the Dreamer of the Dream or the Dream being.”

My rule of thumb here, my starting point, was intent with figure/ground: from here, one could see there were the other parts, greater parts, the bigger picture, the ground per se. Its a further connection, interactive; and it lead to the idea of the interactive field of meaning and knowledge, for me. As I noted before: Photographers and painters, for instance, are trained to observe, to view beyond their regular way of seeing. Attention is not bound to any parameter of experience. The world at this point is much more colorful, energetic, and interesting. Life seems purposeful and meaningful. Centered in awareness, a “mutual arising of Self and Existence” occurs.

Most of us are passive though, and what we see and experience, tends to be “what is is.” Within the eternal ebb and flow of the universe, our worlds emerge. We try to pin it down, internalize the outside world, model it; but intuitively, subconsciously, we known there is something more to life. You do act as if there was a secret motivation, psychology, whether this is a good thing or not. There is also a dialectic with others involved: these externalizations, I see how you try to pin it down, like a butterfly, turn it into a social thing/identity, symbol, external control . . . and that’s an abstraction. People do resist it; for there are social divisions created. But despite these doings, the wheels still turn; the flow of various realities still go on within their unique ways of doing things, no matter what else is going on.

Beyond these “apparent” ways then, there are still our “intrinsic” connections; we are interconnected with the universe, one with it. So, rather than the typical conscious/unconscious, I’ve moved on to the extended, multifaceted. Who knows what you people are really up to? I call it the colloquial ways: its related to social positioning, high or low, as in opposition to the Church or Aristocracy, for instance. The esteemed and abhorred coexist side by side, and the roles have to be filled for the full presentation of the situation. Its as old as the hills, and maybe how psychoanalysis got its start.

“The ‘philosophical equation,’ as propounded by Sarte or Camus, insists on sticking to ‘this world,’ as revealed to us through our limited consciousness. On such a basis, it was inevitable that they should end in a cul de sac. But if the way out of the cul de sac lies in the recognition of the real existence of this world of beauty and intensity beyond everyday consciousness, what then? The next stage for a ‘new existentialism’ should be to propound some infallible intellectual discipline for reaching this world. Phenomenological analysis has confirmed what Blake asserted a century earlier: that our senses are liars . . . “ Colin Wilson, The New Existentialism, p113, Wildwood House Ltd, 1980.

“’Five windows light the caverned man,’ as Blake says, and if these windows are cleaned, the result is that everything is seen as it really is – infinite.” Colin Wilson, The New Existentialism, p112, Wildwood House Ltd, 1980.

“The reason for introducing the word ‘imagination’ may not be at once apparent. This is because the word ‘imagination’ suffers from the same ambiguity as ‘reality.’ If we are speaking of the narrow ‘present reality,’ then imagination means no more than the ability to escape into a realm of unreality. But as soon as we think in terms of James’s other ‘reality’ – the ‘ranges of distant fact’ – this definition becomes inadequate, for these wider ranges of reality are precisely the realms into which imagination was trying to escape. To perceive a distant reality as real is the function of imagination. The words ‘perception’ and ‘imagination’ become interchangeable on this level. The whole point of phenomenology is that there is no sharp dividing line between perception and imagination. The dividing line only applies when we think of perception as passive and imagination as active. As soon as we realize that perception is active, the old dichotomy vanishes,” Colin Wilson, The New Existentialism, p107-108, Wildwood House Ltd, 1980.

I “see” I can build myself differently here . . . with all the various parts falling into place.

So, moving from the apparent, into the interactive field of meaning and knowledge:

From one’s ordinary state of limited consciousness, interpretation, one stretches one’s feelers out, touches the beyond. There is connection, interconnection . . . “mutual arising” with energy. Things become more real at this point. The Essence.

The Life World within the Greater World . . . the figure/ground is interactive with the other parts, the greater parts . . . one’s ordinary level of interpretations can be compared to the ongoing, enhanced. Its not just something the rational mind is getting from the subconscious, as in the old way of considering things, separate like with the Dreaming Emissary: its an active conscious connecting process, with meaning, knowledge, Revelation!

There’s mutual arising, with other parts, greater parts . . . the “Bigger Picture”, the Gestalt!

THE ART OF THE MULTIVERSE . . . ! !

A new mode of being, enhanced and multifaceted.

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