From my beginnings in these directions: Colin Wilson was the one who directed me towards some ideas that added some direction to my quest. He pointed out that Franz Bretano, (1838-1917), “. . . proposed what seemed a satisfactory way of distinguishing mental from physical phenomena. A mental phenomena, he said, is directed at an…

As far as this people stuff goes, with their models of the world, this nexus of the internalization/externalization dialectic . . . we’re moving from the apparent here too, for it is an abstraction as well, to the more intrinsic, real, authentic . . . This abstraction, its more than just an idea; its a…

A typical conscious/unconscious relationship may be like this: “In a figure that strikingly anticipates the insights of Freudian psychology, Schopenhauer compares the human mind to a body of water. Conscious ideas are on the surface, but the depths consist of “the indistinct, the feelings, the after-sensation of perceptions and intuitions and what is experienced in…

This idea, Piaget for instance, that we create “models of the world” within ourselves . . . related to that right from the beginning, for I also knew there was a truer reality out there, viewed with intent . . . “existence.” I was doing it. Over time, more odds and ends began to fill…

The Magic of Creation . . . The Living Creation . . . The Life World within the Greater World . . . As one begins to move on . . . its not just dealing with the “nasty,” as one gets in the generic or colloquial ways; there’s the fuller, greater, more encompassing .…

There may be a reason for the alchemy, for there was a division at one time: “A transcendent divinity was the source of all creation, and humanity lived in exile from heaven in a state of sin. This doctrine created a split between matter and spirit, causing the world to be seen as separate from…

A few nice touches . . . an original pristine mind . . . socialized, but the potential to be in interconnection with a greater mind, with proper functioning, since its also an abstraction. Moving past separate mode, personally, and the cognitive block of two minds, conscious and unconscious. Lol . . . maybe I…

This idea that we create “models of the world” within ourselves . . . related to that right from the beginning, for I also knew there was a truer reality out there, viewed with intent . . . “existence.” Over time, more odds and ends began to fill in the details here. For instance: “The…

“The union with Tao also relates to the mental awakening that occurs when you have successfully practiced the alchemy. The essential idea is that before birth you have a pristine, untarnished state of enlightened consciousness without a false idea of self or other. After birth, you learn to perceive in terms of the language and…