Richard, maybe the eye can't see itself but only consciousness can know consciousness (-:
On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 10:06 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: In "Eye to Eye," Ken Wilber applies his spectrum of consciousness model to epistemology. Epistemology is the science of what can be known - knowledge, and how we get it. Attempting to investigate the realm of spirit, for example, with the "eye of flesh," that is, the eye that perceives only sensory phenomena, will not yield real knowledge of the realm of spirit, which is not disclosed to sensory perception. There is an old Zen saying: 'The eye cannot see itself.' "There is no place in this new kind of physics both for field and matter, for the field is the only reality". - Albert Einstein Read more: 'Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm' by Ken Wilber Shambhala, 1990 ---In [email protected], <sharelong60@...> wrote : Richard, Wilbur's book was published 21 years ago. I think neuroscience has added greatly to our understanding of consciousness since then.
