Hey, Will --
When I state "this has been shown to be the case" I am by no means
referencing physics or the physical world. On the contrary, I am
referencing the great mystics, which is precisely why I reference the
Vedas. For you to assume I am referencing the physical world implies
your bondage to it.
Why should you or I be bonded to the physical world any more than anyone
else? Experience has taught me that when someone says "time and time again
this has been shown", scientific proof is to be inferred. Who do you
consider to be the "great mystics"? My theories are metaphysical, which has
little to do with mysticism.
No, what I speak of is beyond. When you touch on our ability to sense,
what exactly is that "I". Surely it is not the brain, or the skin or the
tongue.
These are just mechanical objects. If what you mean is that we are
experiencing a human body, then you and I agree.
The 'I' is the psychic identity, commonly called the "self", whose
fundamental nature is value-sensibility. It exists only in conjunction with
organic being.
Yes, of course things come into existence of their own accord. To
believe in some manipulating force could be considered paranoid.
If there was such a source don't you think it would be pretty obvious.
Or does God intentionally hide for some reason.
I can think of many thoughts that might be considered paranoid. Belief in a
primary source is not one of them. A divinity or Supreme Being may be
"manipulative", but this is not my concept of Essence. And, no, if the
primary source were obvious, man would not be free to choose a nihilistic
philosophy. (Obviously, many do.)
What exactly is this otherness? What we experience is what our bodies
are feeling. An organization and simplification if you will. The otherness
certainly cannot be these feelings. These feelings are created by our
bodies.
There is nothing outside creating these feelings, they exist within.
Existence is a self/other dichotomy that relates subjective sensibility
(awareness) to objective otherness (being). All awareness is value
sensibility. Proprioceptive feelings (pain, pressure, hunger, and balance)
relate to the status of the self-identified body. Other feelings (emotion,
fear, desire, awe, and sensory information) relate to otherness and are the
basis for our experiential precepts, concepts, intellectual and esthetic
judgments, and actions.
Imagine if you will that matter and energy is made of a wave. This wave
clusters and spreads to form the objects around us, in the same way that
the ocean forms waves. While these waves or objects may seem like
separate things, they really aren't, they appear and disappear from the
same.
This assumes that "external reality" is matter and/or energy, which invokes
the perennial mind/matter paradox. I do not accept the externality concept,
nor do I believe that matter (being) is the ultimate reality. Instead, I
acknowledge an absolute, uncreated source (Essence). As I recently told
Bodvar, Existence represents differentially what Essence is absolutely. We
cannot know or experience Essence directly because we estranged from it to
become autonomous creatures. We are, however, inextricably linked to the
source by its Value to us.
When you speak of estranged from the source, is this like Original Sin?
No, and I don't recognize the relevance of Original Sin to my ontogeny.
How can we be estranged from the source when it is within us?
Is somehow our matter different from the rest. Is somehow our mind
different from the rest. If this is true it can be said for everything.
If everything is estranged, there is nothing left to be estranged from.
There is always the Source. Essence is absolute in itself - the One
'not-other'. No finite being can be "part of" an absolute source. My
creation hypothesis is that nothingness is "negated" from Essence to create
Difference, and that this nothingness divides every thing from every other
in the space/time world of appearances.
For a more complete explanation, you might want to read my thesis at
www.essentialism.net/mechanic.htm .
Thanks, Will.
--Ham
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