Really like the idea of soul as intent, in a sort of subegoic form. People talk about "choosing" to incarnate and that's always seemed like wishful thinking to me, but soul as mere intent towards existence, that's getting close to existence itself, existence without an exister.
I also like the idea of water as ... what? Not really metaphor or analogy or symbol, but something more embodied than that. I mean we're mostly water, so, it would make sense that we experience like water or as water. I think you're on to something with the surface idea. A long time ago I felt that all I was encountering was surfaces and I told this to my wife and she said that all she wasn't encounting was depth, and that really sort of stumped me. But on my walk this morning when I encountered a tree, wordlessly, I felt a sense of knowledge of the tree through identification with it, which seems to have something to do with what you're talking about here. I can speak of the surface impression of the tree, which is the same thing that a materialist might talk about, but I am not feeling it or thinking it conceptually, I'm not counting it, but feeling it wholly, in some sense, in the way that water feels itself wholly because it is whole, and yet at the same time It can reflect on its surface with the air. So yes, the tree is a surface but it is only the whole of reality that makes it so. So, this vision seems to be something like the opposite of a narcissist's vision of seeing mere flat surfaces everywhere, to be manipulated or ignored.
Christ's agony is his passion: I've always struggled with that idea. But I appreciate what you do here. If existence is itself a sort of terrible prison due to its limitation on consciousness, then good is the acceptance of that, because it allows for existence, or life; and evil is the rejection of that, because it rails against the limitation, which is then, against life. But, although it is not good, but evil, it is not wrong.
Really like the idea of soul as intent, in a sort of subegoic form. People talk about "choosing" to incarnate and that's always seemed like wishful thinking to me, but soul as mere intent towards existence, that's getting close to existence itself, existence without an exister.
Btw I like your catchy headline. Keeps away the riffraff I guess. Or attracts it. 😂
I also like the idea of water as ... what? Not really metaphor or analogy or symbol, but something more embodied than that. I mean we're mostly water, so, it would make sense that we experience like water or as water.
I think you're on to something with the surface idea. A long time ago I felt that all I was encountering was surfaces and I told this to my wife and she said that all she wasn't encounting was depth, and that really sort of stumped me.
But on my walk this morning when I encountered a tree, wordlessly, I felt a sense of knowledge of the tree through identification with it, which seems to have something to do with what you're talking about here. I can speak of the surface impression of the tree, which is the same thing that a materialist might talk about, but I am not feeling it or thinking it conceptually, I'm not counting it, but feeling it wholly, in some sense, in the way that water feels itself wholly because it is whole, and yet at the same time It can reflect on its surface with the air. So yes, the tree is a surface but it is only the whole of reality that makes it so.
So, this vision seems to be something like the opposite of a narcissist's vision of seeing mere flat surfaces everywhere, to be manipulated or ignored.
Christ's agony is his passion: I've always struggled with that idea. But I appreciate what you do here. If existence is itself a sort of terrible prison due to its limitation on consciousness, then good is the acceptance of that, because it allows for existence, or life; and evil is the rejection of that, because it rails against the limitation, which is then, against life. But, although it is not good, but evil, it is not wrong.