08-04-2018, 12:00 AM
"I am saying that this is first a world of energy; then it's a world of objects"
It's both....I agree
The key is in the emphasis. I've spent a life time from a fixed position, in which birds make bird sounds. First attention. And then, the option to shift perception.....in which birds maybe, really, aren't birds at all....maybe they are something different. Something unknown. Second attention. And then, ofc, if one persists on this trajectory (if he dares!), when the world stops, as Dok alludes to, and a third option becomes apparent. Energy flowing in the universe, for lack of a better term.....the unknowable. Down deep, I know that this is the ultimate reality....what's really going on. I've seen glimpses and it really is indescribable.....even though I've tried to describe it. And so, I make space for that in this world of solid objects, which are growing softer as I get older.
Energy first.
Abstract first.
Everything is an unfathomable mystery, as DJ said.
Allowing for this to infect my certainty gives me access, as Kao puts it, to magic. It is, indeed, the good stuff. There's nothing like it! I'll sacrifice my certainty all day long.....heads rolling down steep stone steps, one right after another....for a taste. Where's Jihadi John when I really need him! A little off the top, my friend
It's both....I agree
The key is in the emphasis. I've spent a life time from a fixed position, in which birds make bird sounds. First attention. And then, the option to shift perception.....in which birds maybe, really, aren't birds at all....maybe they are something different. Something unknown. Second attention. And then, ofc, if one persists on this trajectory (if he dares!), when the world stops, as Dok alludes to, and a third option becomes apparent. Energy flowing in the universe, for lack of a better term.....the unknowable. Down deep, I know that this is the ultimate reality....what's really going on. I've seen glimpses and it really is indescribable.....even though I've tried to describe it. And so, I make space for that in this world of solid objects, which are growing softer as I get older.
Energy first.
Abstract first.
Everything is an unfathomable mystery, as DJ said.
Allowing for this to infect my certainty gives me access, as Kao puts it, to magic. It is, indeed, the good stuff. There's nothing like it! I'll sacrifice my certainty all day long.....heads rolling down steep stone steps, one right after another....for a taste. Where's Jihadi John when I really need him! A little off the top, my friend