Hi Mark --
It would appear that we each have a unique personal sense
of this existence. ...
Yes, that "appearance" is our worldview, weltanschauung, or reality of
"being-in-the-world".
At least I think I do, or else I would be looking through
at least two pairs of eyes. Perhaps that is what I am
doing, and have just gotten used to it. Perhaps I am
looking through everybody's eyes, and this is what it
feels like. But for the purposes of discussion, let's say that
the "I" that we sense is unique, and one of many others.
Now, is that sense of the personal strictly created by the
physical differentiation? If not, how does one explain
Nothing with this in mind. As an objective description, I
understand Negation. Such a thing does not immediately
appeal to my true subjective experience. What is it that
makes this body/brain mine?
This is indeed the basis for many religions, and indeed
Vedic and Buddhist philosophies claim a reincarnation
based on this premise. While I don't see how a
reincarnation can carry any memory with it, because that
is physical, I do suppose that the subjective sense of "I"
can be circular in its existence. This would also be
supported by the conservation laws we currently subscribe
to in physics. So, negation describes awareness, how
does it describe the individual "I" that is beyond thoughts
(if such a thing does exist)?
Aha! You have put your finger on the key to my valuistic ontogeny. Now all
you need do is insert the key in the lock and open the door.
Your brain, your body, your Reality STARTS with YOU. Your self may be
viewed as one instance of a free agent through which Essence is completed or
perfected by an extrinsic perspective of value. It is born of Sensibility,
the "diffracted" individuated mirror-image of essential value from which all
objective reality is actualized. You are not only the locus of that
reality, you are its maker. What you experience as a pluralistic system of
evolving things and events is your value construct. Essential Value
determines its design, order, and universality. But the appearance that you
intellectualize as the physical universe begins and ends with you. It is
literally YOUR REALITY. How could what is your experience possibly be
anyone else's?
Your experiential reality is the unique odyssey that actualizes your
"being-in-the-world" as a finite valuistic phenomenon. Since the appearance
of finitude arises and disappears with your life-experience, you "exist"
only once, and there is no carryover into a reincarnated existence. You are
born and participate in this self-actualized reality as an infinitesimal
flash of value-sensibility, and then ...poof! -- it's gone forever.
Yes, negated self-identity is lost; remember, however, that the Sensibility
and Value that ignites this flash are both derived from Essence. Remember,
too, that whatever essentially IS, is ABSOLUTELY. Inasmuch as sensibility
is essential, the value that you realize incrementally in this
life-experience cannot be lost but represents your singular "value
complement" in the Absolute Oneness of Essence.
Thus, to quote Ham from the online thesis ...
"Having rounded the negate cycle, the individuated self surrenders its
'I'-ness -conditional being and existential awareness - completely to
otherness, thereby revoking its negated status and reclaiming its
essent-value. For each of us, the act of dying represents the supreme
sacrifice because it terminates the egocentricity needed for the continuity
of individuated "selfness" through its transitory existence."
Since concern about "loss of selfness" accounts for most of the dread
associated with death, it behooves us to remember that the truly meaningful
experiences and greatest joys in life are those in which we lose ourselves.
As you see, I've opted for "Treat", Mark. And, it may boost your ego to
know that to your credit I have personally expounded more of my philosophy
to you than to any other participant in this forum.
Congratulations and essentially yours,
Ham
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