Self-aware, and abstracted . . . our psychological nature . . . can’t get much more basic than this.

There’s many interpretations of what this abstraction is, and approaches, thereof.

I’ve got it at intent and the figure/ground, as the active function. One can move from the apparent to the enhanced. The life world within the greater world.

Directed, activated intent, engaged and interactive, taking it up to the next step . . . currently, or afterwards . . .

Yes, its those next steps, second attentions, that interest me. Moving between the typical, apparent, into the multifaceted, enhanced . . . evolutionary activities. From here, check the goodness of fit, like Piaget; but for authenticity, not an externalized reason. The colloquial interpretations are lame, if not irrelevant, in their symbolism, not science. Or, like John Lilly, doing his way of work, moving from the neutral biocomputer state, into further levels of metaprogramming. This took me beyond the lowly colloquial interpretations, dualistic socially and personally, and that internalization/externalization dialectic: instead of being dragged down into lower positions, I moved on into a sense of meaning and purpose with the universe.

Ascending interactions of meaning and knowledge. “We are selves entwined within an interactive field of meaning and knowledge.”

One can relate to the flows of one’s intrinsic nature, and realities from within the greater realities. The greater flows contribute to our life world, adding greater meaning and guidance. Its why we dream, even at its most basic level; but we can go even further than that. Within one’s life world, one can assume a newer sense of Self, orientated within intent, an enhanced abstraction, with knowledge, meaning, and guidance coming in from the greater intrinsic realities. It pretty much becomes a literal thing here, at this point.

The work . . . moving from the typical level of this construct, to the activated, second attentions . . . expansion, growth, maturity, knowledge.

New themes beginning here for me within this. Going past the typical down to earth people things and their symbols, the generic me. A new activation within a second attention, a literal force kicking in, discernable. Like being reborn as a child, a new self, entity, within these higher functions.

Its not just symbols for the average self; but unique activations, expressions of the intrinsic Self and its levels, that is in touch with our complete multifaceted nature, the bigger picture, the Gestalt.

Intent takes it up to another level. There may be combinations of ordinary and enhanced presentations. I had watched the movie with the Silver Surfer as one of the characters, with his anti-gravity multiuniverse surf board. Well, I had a dream of me, and I got involved a bit, with my souped-up magic mattress. Lol!

Focused intent enhances one’s experience, whether interconnecting with the external world, or brightening up one’s dream images. I always saw that. Now moving along to these new phases for me, and these second attentions, I’ve been getting some interesting presentations.

There were two experiences along the same lines: this becomes a science when one gets to observe various phenomenal moving along in certain directions. I had the urge to attend to something, considering someone who was giving me a hard time, which I was reluctant to  do . . . “engrossed:” it was like attending to the “Dark Mirror” on the right, then switching over to this entity on the left, a “Dark Hound.” The point is, I had another experience like that the was open and clear: the mirror was lighted, fresh, and clean; then I switched over to an entity on the left, and also connected with him. I kept distant from the hound. This was a strange being, rounded and puffy . . . after thinking for a while, I realized it was the boy!
The point is attending to them led to a certain kind of experience, and one of them was more on the clear side. I was also having images of these clear and clean windows about this time, as well.

There’s context here, with the associated entity, and its code. There’s two sides to this.

I had an image of a woman; but it was more than that. It was tangible, when my intent moved in there . . . a connection, a touch, feeling, a presence, with an overall good mood. This is adding in here too.

Addendum: (I round up “where I was at” at the time, and find this as a confirmation: the universe is guiding us no doubt.)

Relative World, Ultimate Mind:By the Twelfth Tai Situpa: Shambhala, Boston and London, 1992.

“Relative truth refers to the way something appears. Ultimate truth is what actually is. That is the most fundamental description of relative and ultimate.” p. 3

“When we talk about relative truth and absolute truth, we are talking about one subject from two perspectives.” p. 4

“Ultimate truth is the inseparability of the essence of mind and its manifestation. The term mind is used here to describe essential nature. ” p. 3,4

“Knowledge falls naturally into two divisions: the ordinary and the extraordinary.” p. 5

“The distinction between knowledge and wisdom is the difference between an intellectual or conceptual kind of understanding and the depth–the wisdom–that comes from internalizing and realizing what is known and understood.” p. 6

Mahayana – “- as a means to see beyond the illusory nature of all constructs, including philosophical systems and the personal ego itself.” p. ix, x

“- it requires an understanding of the nature of reality profound enough to see beyond appearances, a full awareness of cause and effect, and total responsibility for one’s actions, without delusions.” p. X

“The literal meaning of tulka is something like “physical vehicle” –nirmanakaya in sanskrit–it refers to the coming into physical form of a spiritually advanced individual.” p. Xv

“”The greater vehicle” stresses not only attainment of enlightenment for oneself but actively assisting others if only by cultivating an attitude of compassion towards them.” p. Xv

“The teachings of the vajrayana, the “diamond vehicle,” or “indestructible vehicle,” include the body of secret tantric instructions primarily transmitted orally.” p. X

“The terma, or “hidden treasures” of knowledge . . . “ p. Xi

“When the Buddha taught he spoke in an ordinary way, but he also taught through mind transmission, which involved another dimension altogether.” p. 3