This gets rectified by itself once we begin to experience our conscious experience as a kind of a spectrum, where color, sound, etc. are only some of the bandwidths within it. Your wariness is probably fueled by the conviction that the sensory spectrum corresponds to the 'real' world, while the bandwidths of feelings, thoughts, ideas are completely opaque to that world and subjective. Regular science searches for correlations between the thought/concept/idea spectrum (mainly in the mathematical domain) and the sensory spectrum (additionally extended by the microscope, telescope, particle accelerators, etc.). When we realize that it is practically an arbitrary decision to designate one part of the spectrum as 'real' and another as 'mere effect', we instead begin to seek the harmony in the whole spectrum. This must be stated because it's a general misconception that spiritual science does the opposite - assumes only ideas and weird experiences as real and try to represent the sensory spectrum as mere effects (I think this is what you mean by 'resolution through inner experience'). This is not the case. The word 'spiritual' doesn't designate some specific bandwidth that we focus on but the whole spectrum - because after all, we know nothing else than a spiritual experience - colors, sounds, feelings, thoughts. This is our given. Nowhere is in the given something non-spiritual, that is, which is not a consciously experienced phenomenon. Things become non-spiritual only if we develop the idea of 'non-spiritual' and project it through thinking on selected bands of the spectrum - basically, declaring them non-spiritual. If history had run in another way, it wouldn't even be necessary to put so much emphasis on the word 'spiritual'. We would have simply spoken of the spectrum of reality. But since in our age people are practically programmed to imagine real and stable world, and orthogonal to it, chaotic and uncertain inner world, we have to constantly turn attention to these things. Hopefully, in the not so distant future, we'll be able to speak simply of the spectrum of reality (which will be implicitly of spiritual nature) without automatically presupposing some fantasized world that should 'explain' our given experience. We simply start from the given and grow outwards, bringing everything into musical harmony along the way. The sensory bandwidth is just as a part of this process, as any other part of the spectrum.Anthony66 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 2:06 pm I must admit to being a little wary with respect to resolution through inner experience. This of course has been the tool of choice of so many religionists - the Mormon burning in the bosom and the Pentecostal manifestations of the Spirit for example. But it's certainly my intention to learn as much as I can about "spiritual science" and to diligently perform the various meditations. I had an altered state experience a month or so ago where "Steiner imaginings" appeared forcefully in my consciousness so I'm following that lead...
Great I'm really happy for your determination.
I'll repeat (just in case) that the fuzzy dot is not that important. It's much more important to experience that you move your thought about the dot, even if this movement of thought doesn't (yet) lead to vivid color.