Before I realized we are “selves entwined within an interactive field of meaning and knowledge,” and emphasizing the “intrinsic orientation” . . . Very creative, but weak on one half, the wholeness. Now I can deal with the befores and afters:
An experiential domain . . . an experiencer
-a deeper, secret aspect to experience
-between the “eye and realized experience” . . . “inner perception”
The experiential frame:
-the personal: body, internal/external reality, identity, space/time.
-beyond the personal: the experience of a pristine reality independent of one’s cognitive interpretations . . . clarity . . . deeper sources of being and existing beyond this limited framework . . . archetypical . . . multidimensionality . . . extended, vaster cognition, intelligence, consciousness . . . the ground of being.
Drifting from ordinary, objective awareness . . . the inner realm, a realm of open potential . . . subtle feeling, energy, perception. Could it be though, we “draw the line” in a particular way? As H. P. Lovecraft would say, “the local aspects of an unchanged and endless reality seem to change with the cosmic angle of regarding.” Or, like an M. C. Escher lithograph, the resulting perspective depends upon one’s selective attention. This is our “intersection” with the universe, our “interface” . . . between the external/internal, finite/infinite, particulate/whole.
Our normal center of attention, externally directed, is only an offshoot, a tangent, a finite perspective of all perspectives, universal views. Inward focuses though lead to other intermediate levels . . . the “subconscious” becomes a treasure chest, a shamanic reservoir of knowledge and paths of breathless wonder.
Our experience, cognition . . . automatically generated from within . . .
Besides recognizing, as psychologist’s would, of an implicit contribution to experience, there is the possibility of experiencing these inner realms directly.
There is a deeper cognitive level, a conscious mode of exploring “inner perception”
Phenomena may range on a dimension from “external reality projection spaces”, e.g., clouds, to “zero level external reality.” (John Lilly)
Potential explorations:
-Astral projection . . . contemplation of body input/output
-Inner focus states . . . contemplation of visual input/output
-Meditation . . . contemplation of inner space input/output
-Identifications . . . contemplation of identity formats . . . we are probable selves, a selection from a multidimensional aspect.


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