Gary, List:
I, too, found this in my spam folder, so to better teach the algorithm to
stop doing that, I flagged it as not spam *and* I'm writing this response.
My focus is on the final observation of Gary's essay, describing a path to
a particular nondual awareness. There are many nondualities. In my view,
Gary describes the particular nondual awareness that the Mahamudra
tradition calls Primordial Mind. There is indeed a way to get there through
increasingly fine-grained prescinding, dropping every cognitive add-on you
supply on top of the field of open awareness, which has the (surprising)
effect of dissolving the distinction between, as Gary elegantly puts it,
*feeling* and *what happens*.
It is difficult to write about this; even my last sentence needed a
dualistic "you" ("you supply...") in order to functionally point at the all
the generative work being done to construct the model we each live in, a
model built and run by the primordial mind I am describing getting in touch
with. This is why the major nondual traditions (of this kind of nonduality:
Mahamudra, Dzogchen, nondual Shaivism) all emphasize you have to *do* this,
you have to literally *experience* primordial mind, not simply "understand"
it conceptually. You could say that this primordial mind is ontologically
prior to conceptual understanding.
I discovered Peirce years before I discovered nondual open awareness. In my
experience, Peirce's phenoscopy is significantly easier to understand and
reason about after developing some facility with nondual vipashyana or
shinay meditation.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
> Resending this because it came back to me in my spam box.
>
> Gary f.
>
> *From:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* 20-Dec-25 09:21
> *To:* <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Truth and dyadic consciousness
>
> In my last post in the other thread, I mentioned that the term
> “consciousness” is problematic. In this little essay from the back side of
> *Turning
> Signs* I’ve tried to sort out some of those problems:
>
> https://gnusystems.ca/TS/tpx.htm#dyax
>
> Happy Winter Solstice to all those in the Northern Hemisphere!
>
> Love, gary f.
> _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON
> PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected]
> .
> ► <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>UNSUBSCRIBE FROM
> PEIRCE-L</a> . But, if your subscribed email account is not your default
> email account, then go to
> https://list.iu.edu/sympa/signoff/peirce-l .
> ► PEIRCE-L is owned by THE PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and
> co-managed by him and Ben Udell.
>
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON
PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] .
► <a href="mailto:[email protected]";>UNSUBSCRIBE FROM PEIRCE-L</a> .
But, if your subscribed email account is not your default email account, then
go to
https://list.iu.edu/sympa/signoff/peirce-l .
► PEIRCE-L is owned by THE PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and
co-managed by him and Ben Udell.
