Non-dual Awareness and Awakening

[Stranger]

Another relevant material:
The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports

[Cleric K]

Another relevant material:
The Elephant and the Blind: The Experience of Pure Consciousness: Philosophy, Science, and 500+ Experiential Reports

Thanks Eugene,

On one hand, it is a symptom of the times, how we can already speak in imaginative ways about our inner experiences. Today it takes very little effort (if one is good-willed) to understand in-vivo something like the described potential fields, the attractors, the possibility to deconstruct (peel) the layers of our psyche, and so on. All of this has become almost an obvious fact for anyone not stuck in the potential wells of sensory fortune-seeking.

On the other hand, it shows us how we're never safe from the blind spot. It is not realized that even when we behold the undifferentiated sea of qualia, we're still in a potential well of sorts.

What are the symptoms of this? The fact that ultimately we deconstruct only our psychic life. It's obvious that we can't deconstruct our physical body, not even guide our life process consciously. So what is really peeled is the layers of our intellectual self, until we're at the borderline of a higher order topology. This is what is fatally missing in expositions like the above. Without this, one remains with the impression that the ground of reality is reached and that anything else belongs to the world-in-itself (Shamil at least made it quite explicit that he assumes a Kantian perspective).

When we awaken to the fact that this state is just as stuck in a local potential minimum as our ordinary Earthly loops, then the question arises "But I already deconstructed everything to a pure field of qualitative experiencing. What more can be done than this?" To answer this question we need to outgrow our personal perspective. It's not only about deconstructing our intellectual self but also discovering how our state metamorphoses within a shared (superimposed) potential space.

Notice how the described model would have to enter a quite uncertain territory if it needs to address something like Karma. We can never gain true insight into Karma by just deconstructing our personal intellect. Karma can only be understood by going beyond ourselves and knowing something of the curvatures of destiny within which our existential movie unfolds. These curvatures are not only personal. Karma is like 'elastic' relations among superimposed curvatures of potential. We can't deconstruct them only in our personal sphere and become free of them. Working on Karma always implies the harmonization of the curvatures of superimposed potential.

So the above model has to be expanded beyond a personal island that integrates a coherent sense of self out of a chaotic ocean of undifferentiated qualia. This sense of self, together with its intellectual grooves, flows within higher-order curvatures of potential. We can call them soul level, or soul world. Generally, we're not conscious of these curvatures. In the same way, curved spacetime seems locally flat at small scales. Thus it is no surprise that we need special effort to detect these curvatures of destiny/Karma.

Then we reach even higher-order curvatures, which are of a more archetypal nature. Here we have the Cosmic ideal activity (idea/spiritual world) that bends the potential space. For example, we can only understand life (as we share it with the plant world) from these ideal heights.

Finally, we reach the highest-order curvatures (accessible to man of today) which bend the potential at universal levels and correspondingly have their projection in the universal nature of time, fields, forces, particles, etc. These are only the shadows. At the highest levels the focus is really about bending the universal potential within the curvature of which the first-person story of evolving Man unfolds.

Our sense of self - even if deconstructed to the sea-of-qualia level - is still embedded in these higher-order curvatures. To know them we need to find our concentric relations with the corresponding ideal activity of these higher orders of mind (which are autonomous and increasingly collective).