beingofintent

“Psychoanalytically speaking,” the latest changes occurring in me were like this: “Basically, I’m saying I got to be true to myself, trust my connections to the course, evolutions. Knowing that there is a part of myself that is there. The intrinsic self . . . not the hidden self, obscured by the social face .…

Within the figure/ground, experiences are more contextual. I recall looking into one of John Lilly’s investigative methodologies: he had it divided up into inner reality, outer reality, body, Self; a framework one could use to analyze experiences. Experiences within the figure/ground though always bring in more, an enlarged meaning with interrelated parts. For instance, I…

Dreaming, starting from the fundamental level of the body and world, as the aboriginals would say, is not bound to, but a release from the body or the physical world. As Robert Moss would say: “The open secret is that consciousness is never confined to the body and brain.” I tended to start from another…

One can interact with one’s dreams of course; and with the way of intent. This can even be within a larger context, a theme. It does what dreams do, adding an orientation, with varied interpretations, giving something to contemplate. I had a series of interrelated dreams, all presented within an unique way, connected to an issue I…

Yes, when I realized we “attend to the world;” that was the beginnings of the changes within me, and developing more independent ways. Recently though, it got me thinking: what is our intrinsic nature? . . . “one with the universe!” I began thinking about moving from “separate mode,” subject/object, to a more “intermediate mode,”…

Most of us have intuited that there is something “more” to the life we live, and the world around us. Realizing this is fairly difficult if we start from the typical concrete version of ourselves and reality: ie., “what is, is.” Change is not easy within this interpretation: I suspect this is why we have that…

Enhanced self . . . Life is like a jigsaw puzzle . . . only one piece is visible for most. Though there may be a lot of stuff going on around us at any one time. I guess you would see I’m using this as an analogy of the figure/ground. So, lets say we…