Full essay here - https://spiritanalogies.substack.com/p/ ... -chess-5a6
"When I'm not chasing 64 squares, I'm chasing moments like these, to see things from different angles, to find meaning in the quiet, to appreciate every small shift in perspective." - Mammadzada, WGM
Shifting the Perspective on Our Mental Images
In the previous part, we tried to attain a general feeling of how our ordinary experiential flow takes shape as the soul ‘zooms in’ from a more holistic navigatory experience of its primary intuitive flow and micromanages the latter's ‘chopped up’ partial transitions in the subflow of mental images. Something of this incarnational dynamic can be experienced even in our ordinary consciousness, for example, if we work our way to a remarkable insight and intend to communicate it to someone else. Ideally, it would only take a single gesture, word, or glance for the other soul to attune with this insight that we perceive. And there are indeed times when we feel that a single gesture or glance conveys the rich meaning of something living within another soul, like a mood or intention. Most of the time, however, the meaning must be unpacked into a series of imaginative states, where we intuitively push through the elements of the insight and experience a correlated chain of mental images that we struggle to articulate in many sentences and words to the other person. It is like we need to weave a bridge made of mental images and their articulated forms between the initial state and the state in which the insight is grasped, such that the ordinary consciousness can walk over it.
At this point, some may ask why we cannot simply dissolve these obstinate mental images and zoom back out into the primary flow as pure experiencers or witnesses of the intuitive dynamics. Shouldn’t we be able to silence all of our verbal commentary, for example, and passively unite with the flow, such that we no longer interfere with its unfoldment and, instead, engorge ourselves with abundant wisdom? The simple fact of experience, however, is that everything in our intuitive navigatory experience is now mediated by these mental images (which is not to imply our experience of them must remain static). We cannot even push toward the state of grasping the meaning, ‘dissolving mental images and zooming back out,’ without forming more mental images that reflect that meaning to us. These images have become the point of lucid contact between the primary flow and our zoomed-in subflow. We could say that they are constantly ‘tearing off the event horizon’ of the occluded primary flow, encoding its meaningful qualities in a lucid yet fragmentary way. Thus, as hinted in the previous part, we need to discover a means of leveraging that point of contact such that our mental images no longer veil, but testify to, the event horizon from which they tear off.
An Occult Education Through Chess (Part 2)
An Occult Education Through Chess (Part 2)
"They only can acquire the sacred power of self-intuition, who within themselves can interpret and understand the symbol... those only, who feel in their own spirits the same instinct, which impels the chrysalis of the horned fly to leave room in the involucrum for antennae yet to come."