Your “externalizing ways” seem to want to drag me into them, and I can also “lose myself” there. Its as if you think I’m harboring a secret: or like a behaviorist, since we can’t observe it, “we don’t know.” Yet, one’s true “intrinsic nature” is something else.

It seems to be a “social need” for you; but I’ve also been in my kind of sociable levels as well. There’s an enhanced larger context, and with a “me” involved. It seems you want to impose the “generic ways,” as if they represented the “real.” I’m moving us up to the levels seen in the various kinds of meditators around the world.

In certain other social situations I’m achieving very positive states of mind though.

You could say I readjusted my examinations to reconsider these most basic levels, that is, a material world/body separate from the mind/soul/spirit etc. I can see how I initially moved along here in an experiential way, with the emergent senses, then the processing, a “two way nervous system,” giving the beginning of “self-awareness,” then identity. The “body ego,” from Washburn, gives that initial sense of differentiation; but its not so conceptual or visionary. Then with one’s thoughts, ideas coming in, adding their interpretations, “meta-programming,” there is the “mental ego.”

I was thinking of the conceptual cognitive levels first, before this, like the rational and the holistic levels of the brain for instance.

Eventually, I worked in a system that got me out of this material/rational process, form and energy: I got the figure/ground with the Life World within the Greater World, as my multifaceted way of Meaning! Its “contextual,” and its related to the “Bigger Picture!” I can look at all of these previous conditions, stages, from my Stage 2. Yoga said “Fusion,” hey? But, its more than with just singular physical objects!

Its interesting how Corbin compares to this:

“For a long period I have been searching, like a young philosopher, for the key to this world as a real world, which is neither the sensible world nor the world of abstract concepts.”

“Imagination which is imaginatrice. It is a cognitive power in its own right. Its mediating faculty is to make us able to
know without any reservation that region of Being which, without this mediation, would remain forbidden ground, and whose
disappearance brings on a catastrophe of the Spirit, where we have by no means yet taken the measure of all the consequences.
It is essentially a median and mediating power, in the same way that the universe to which it is regulated and to which it gives access, is a median and mediating universe, an intermediate world between the sensible and the intellectual (intelligible), an intermediate world without which articulation between sensible and Intellectual (intelligible) is definitely blocked.”

Henry Corbin: Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth

Imagination is pretty much a medieval term. He has it in between the material world/body and mind, soul, spirit. I started with that “two way nervous system,” the senses, then processing, then interpretations. Our levels of creativity, knowledge, and Meaning emerges. Its a conscious thing for him as well. With the involvement and alignment of intent, the figure/ground, I also came up with an “intermediate zone,” which was very synchronous here.

In my orientation with intent, I came up with “A mutual arising of Self and Existence.” Then with the “Life World within the Greater World,” we are in an intermediate zone, form and energy, interactive, in a much more sophisticated way than I initially started with.

Our body ego, beginning as a child, can still be reexamined with intent, since we mature and develop into adulthood. There can still be these multifaceted elements and energies happening there, in a spontaneous way. As I was considering that being mindful could be ideal, with potential ways to move further along, besides sitting within one’s typical body orientations with the inputs and outputs going along in their own ways. The point is to become more conscious and active within this build up of structure.

It was like a small bright energy source caught my attention. It wasn’t just a typical quick focus, but it was like it was flying around and I had this changing orientation with it while moving through space.

There was a dark object, like a boulder, with three blue dots of light. I had this thought that I was glad that I didn’t try to look into it more. There was a later image of a group of people with a smiling woman on the end. When I went to Josee’s I “got it;” it was like my Volcanic Agate rock seen with a black light, its blue dots, and my woman clerk there looking exactly the same.

It was like I was opening up into another space, like another room. I said “Hello,” as this opening occurred. I later realized this could of come from the exercise of “The Extraordinary Practice of Saying Hello,” in the book “The Shaman’s Book Of Extraordinary Practices” by Jose Luis Stevens, Phd. Later, down the line, I got this muffled voice saying Hello to me.

A quick image appeared, like a sharp thin energy body, solid though, like a missle, with an old rustic key sticking out near the end.