Philosophical Speculations

Ha! Well Consciousness does like to deceive itself, Eugene!

Could it be they're both actually Jordan Peterson?

Even I wouldn't go that far! One of him's too busy.

Or we could go with the alter ego hypothesis; or maybe the crime-busting action figure/mild-mannered cyber-geek split-persona scenario. I have to say though if it is the same person pulling off two profiles, it's brilliantly done, with this constant switching between the aggressive cross-examining ...

In my case, the genie is out but has wandered off to do his own thing

In this experience, I've found any exclusive identification with any seemingly segregated aspect to be problematic. It is such fixated identification/attachment as one or the other, formlessness or form, that perpetuates the apparency of their segregation. Paraphrasing a Bodhisattva: Before any suc...

But there is nothingness aspect and a fullness aspect, there is a cessation and a movement which you said "have nothing to do with each other". If the fullness aspect involves A************ or such as Wilber's Integral Theory, then I identify with the nothingness aspect

I can't say I've personally known any fully realized beings but I have met some pretty evolved folks. There's a combination of qualities they exude -- humility, high performance, childlike spontaneity that is somehow thoughtful and aware. They are fun to be around.

Hmm! Sounds like Anna Brown.

Our individual conscious activity always has direct access to the transcendent formless No-thing-ness aspect of Consciousness, but that access does not open to us the access to the wholeness of the creation, they have nothing to do with each other. True wisdom, Eugene! When the neighbour's dog bark...

"Nothing proves we are more than nothing".
- Emil Cioran

(not even a good joke)

"Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?"
― Emil Cioran