Welcome It is my wish that the material in this blog, and other as well ("The Ulterior Dimension), will serve to alleviate some of life's dificulties No matter what is said in this blog, it is meant indexically, i.e., to point. Please do not confuse what is said here with what is true. The goal here is to help us to understand the nature and movement of experience and lessen suffering. That's all, no more than that is intended. All blog posts are subject to revision. Please keep that in mind.
Jan 17, 2017
Let's Begin Again--We're back!
A few medical problems, a move to Roanoke, Virginia, and a few other concerns sidelined me for a while. However, I cannot contain what I have been introduced to, what I have learned, and how much I realize we all need to hear this stuff that arises from the anonymous depths of my life. All thoughts, insights, visions, spiritual experiences, moods, emotions, etc., arise selflessly--as I hope you are aware. If not, simply watch--with a serene mind--your thoughts and feelings as they arise. You will soon notice that, if you are honest, i.e., of clear vision, your thoughts, etc., are coming from or appearing from an unidentifiable source. There is, I suppose, some small measure of knowledge to be gained from speculating about the nature of this source. However, no matter what is said about it in any definitive way, will only be provisional. Much less and much more can always be said. Have at it if you wish. But remember this, any characterization of this source will elude finality. This is so for a very simple reason: We can never get behind it. We are an effect, not a cause. We, like the worlds we have lived and will live, are creations--or the movement of creation itself. We are always one blink of an eye too late to witness our own emergence from our source. If you doubt this, take a good look for yourself.
This blog is essentially about two narrative topics that are or will be more important to us in the near future, chaos and determinism. To quote Edward Lorenz, "Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future.” and, oddly, William Faulkner, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Strangely, both succinctly declare what this blog is all about and how chaos, determinism, and the past along with sentience or awareness are in process of generating human subjective experience--again, the life of each one of us as it is lived. This blog seeks to humanize our language of experience and to help us focus on experience at the expense of an undue prioritizing of theory over experience.
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