So, at the end of the differentiation, we are at our “identifications.” Depending upon one’s level of functioning here, is whether there are other possibilities or not. Rationality, the typical access point, is where we can describe what we think is going on. There are higher levels of consciousness and activities though, intentionality, in which further activations can occur, an interaction with a greater reality. Its here that one can do one’s homework, working from what one originally knows and can describe intellectually, and these further unique extensions to ourselves and world. Its a two pronged process . . . like opening and studying the book of Life! The Life World within the Greater World.

One could look back to John Lilly in The Center of the Cyclone, and his levels of consciousness: (Level 48, Gurdjieff):

The neutral biocomputer state, the state for the absorbtion and the transmission of new ideas; for the reception and transmission
of new data and new programs; doing teaching and learning with maximum facilitation, neither a positive or negative state, neutral.
On the Earth.

He has those other states, as well, positive or negative; but I’m the one who brought in intent here for my ways.

Our experience is various subsets of our totality . . . drawn to our bodily consciousness, our physical situation, our needs, etc

But we’re more than a sliver of a self that has a repressed part . . . with the problem of differentiation and the social adjustment

You could say there is an aspect of self, which we normally consider as ourselves, involved in a certain focus/reality. There’s another higher-up aspect of self that’s aware of it, and other possibilities. This is where the potentials of a wider reality or consciousness is possible. The knowledge, guidance we can encounter here in this greater realm. Not just dream symbols, feelings; but the synchronicity, experiencing, and knowing in another way.

Friday, July 21, 2006

After seeing this, it made me realize I knew something back then, though there were also roadblocks: the next stage kicked in when I realized what you people were doing, externalizing, and realizing that I was also entwined within an interactive field of meaning and knowledge . . . getting past that level of colloquial psychoanalysis, in general, as I put it. Very close!

I was thinking of this differentiation more as just a psychology; but if you look to Yoga, or physics these days, its right to the level of matter!

“creation is here described as an evolution outward, from undifferentiated into differentiated consciousness, from mind into matter.” (p.28) “. . . until the process ends on the outer physical Surface of the visible and tangible world” (p.28) . . . like the figure/ground, when we can see images in the clouds, like animals, or faces? . . .

Found these synchronous quotes, and/or read them before, in: HOW TO KNOW GOD: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanhali, Signet, Signet Classics, Mentor, Plume and Meridian Books, 1969.

“During both dreams and waking hours, our minds collapse probability waves to generate a physical reality that comes complete with a functioning body. “

-Dreams Are More Real Than Anyone Thought: Waking reality and dreams are different versions of the same thing.
-Posted August 11, 2021. Psychology Today.

Matter and energy! Intent is energetic. The “Mold?”

As one becomes active, intent, there are moves from this apparent level, into the more intrinsic ones, entering a more intermediate realm. This could be multifaceted, complex, with many levels involved, something I felt I might have to look into. Our little meanings become involved with something greater, just as Yoga states concentration moves into knowledge with discrimination, meditation, and absorption.

Gurdjieff, for instance, had related ideas:

Ouspensky, P. D.. In Search of the Miraculous: Complete with Diagrams . Toward Publishing. Kindle Edition, Location 1094, 1120, 1138.

So, we’re in this intermediate zone between our experience and the world(s). Or, if you are religious, between the creation and the Creator. Is it all fantasy, memory, or various forms of activations?

Like at the top of the pyramid, with its eye, we’re at that enhanced point of cognition, consciousness . . . rationality and intentionality deal with this content . . .

Its not just being separate, material, reactive within the environment, with only genetics/behaviorism . . . the body ego. It adds another enhanced layer.

I just realized I was trying to get this, way back, when I was thinking of the input/output domain idea, and our skill sets related to that.

Its our World View, sense of meaning: it can be very complex, sophisticated, intelligent.

Going back to those more typical levels, times, with my new ways, it was if I was rushing in carrying a long red staff with two round knobby things on top, one red, one black. Later, it was like I was looking at this old massive iron door, opening, being lifted up, with a heavy chain trailing down, but with a key connected to the end of that, and revealing a lighted environment beyond. Through The Gates of the Silver Key!

I was walking along, in this other body out there, carrying a staff with like a lighted flag. These come with the focus of intent: its what happens and what one gets. I moved it back to psychology though: there are probably other kinds of orientations. I had to do what I had to first.

This got me thinking; if its right down to matter, I can see why Yoga and Buddhism start with the body. One may reach up; but one comes back down. There’s a home base here; but with the breath for instance, its centered in more mid-line chakras, not the sex/survival orientations of the West.