Hi Ham, I have been mulling over your Essentialism, to try to create some kind of metaphor or analogy which would help me comprehend it in an intellectual way. I believe I have an awareness of what you are proposing, but getting that into words is not easy, as you know. The easiest way for me to further develop the awareness is to create a picture of such a thing. This then allows further manipulation of the concept. I am presenting this in the MOQ forum since I believe it is relevant.
I have the following picture to present you. Please keep in mind, that it is vague at best, just a beginning. Also, try not to dismiss it outright without trying to see where I am trying to go. It would seem to me that we have a negation of absolute essence which presents as differentiation. The value of this differentiation is then realized by reversing such negation through an object outside of our personal awareness. That is outside the body, for now. But it can go deeper than that. So we have a negation and then double negation to use your terminology. One way to view this is as "Absolute Essence connecting to itself". For whatever reason, we are the conduit for such a connection. That is that "other" is connected back to Absolute Essence through us. Such connection is through our sensibilities. Now this may seem kind of weird the the absolute would need to connect with itself. One could also see it as the absolute seeing itself. So, let's take a super simple example, of such a connection. We have absolute essence separated from itself like to poles on an electrical circuit. So Essence on one side, and Essence on the other. We can call one side internal to us, and the other external (just for the analogy). When we realize the value of the external object, we connect it to the internal. There is a flow of sensibility which we realize by forming the connection. In that sense, we are a wire, and the flow of Essence to Essence is what we feel. We realize a cake through our senses of sight, smell, taste, and touch. We connect the essence of cake to Absolute essence. Both sides are Absolute, and we are the wire in between. This would encompass the negation and double negation aspect. Another permutation of the analogy would be to envision two chambers (both of which are Essence). Through Realization, we connect the two chambers through a tube, and sense the Value flowing between. Now there are many possible analogies for what this tube or wire is, one could be time itself. So, Ham, let me know if this makes any sense at all. I am happy to provide more insight if I can. Cheers, Mark Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
