NON-DUALITY
1) Classical Physics - The Collapsed Universe of Duality
The Industrial Revolution
Newton unified multiple observations into a single theory — that gravity on Earth is the same as gravity elsewhere — and used this theory to create the first coherent picture of the world.
The World of Newton: Particles that move in Space, as time passes attracted by forces. Atoms in the Void
The Industrial Revolution
Newton unified multiple observations into a single theory — that gravity on Earth is the same as gravity elsewhere — and used this theory to create the first coherent picture of the world.
The World of Newton: Particles that move in Space, as time passes attracted by forces. Atoms in the Void
Physics of Common Sense(s) - 5 Senses, especially Sight - even if math is complicated the overall description is easy and intuitive to grasp.
Non-rotating COM of system completely known with position and momentum measurement. Initial conditions determines final
Arrow moving across Space... Already we can see paradox of Position and Momentum
Even thermodynamics reduced to Newtons Laws... (Success of Newtons Laws).
Observer - Mirror to Nature... Observation leaves system undisturbed.
Mass - Energy - Time - Space all separate.
4 Ingredients
1. Absolute Space = Big Container of the Universe. Infinite Inert and Passive Backgroud Stage where the drama of creation plays out.
Absolute Time = Newton's Clockwork Universe
Substance = Solid Matter and Energy
Philosophy = Realism, Determinism, Scientific Materialism, Reductionism - System some total of parts (linear).
Language Subject - Verb - Object
Health - Allopathic Medicine - Bodyshop - Mechanistic View of Body
Biology - Genetic Determinism
Highest Expression / Mysticism = Chaos Theory and Nature Mysticism, Oneness at Gross Level. Great interlocking web of life.
(Chaos Theory throws a wrench in determinism and Reductionism - Nonlinear and unpredictible, emergent properties).
Non-rotating COM of system completely known with position and momentum measurement. Initial conditions determines final
Arrow moving across Space... Already we can see paradox of Position and Momentum
Even thermodynamics reduced to Newtons Laws... (Success of Newtons Laws).
Observer - Mirror to Nature... Observation leaves system undisturbed.
Mass - Energy - Time - Space all separate.
4 Ingredients
1. Absolute Space = Big Container of the Universe. Infinite Inert and Passive Backgroud Stage where the drama of creation plays out.
Absolute Time = Newton's Clockwork Universe
Substance = Solid Matter and Energy
Philosophy = Realism, Determinism, Scientific Materialism, Reductionism - System some total of parts (linear).
Language Subject - Verb - Object
Health - Allopathic Medicine - Bodyshop - Mechanistic View of Body
Biology - Genetic Determinism
Highest Expression / Mysticism = Chaos Theory and Nature Mysticism, Oneness at Gross Level. Great interlocking web of life.
(Chaos Theory throws a wrench in determinism and Reductionism - Nonlinear and unpredictible, emergent properties).
Third person views of spirit have gone back hundreds of thousands of years to the earliest shamans. Helps to use stages of development to see the progressions of 3rd person views of spirit. Magic and early mythic views are outmoded for today but their waking up states are as true and important as ever.
We can start 3rd persons views with a modern modern view. It is common to say that the enlightenment produced a massive reductionism to a narrow atomistic materialism.
But the most common idea in the enlightenment was the great unified, interwoven system of all of Nature. John Locke called it the great interlocking order. It was a massive systems theory view. Every single thing and event in the Universe was said to be part of a great networked whole. And you could only understand the whole by understanding the parts and only understand the parts by understanding the whole.
***The Measurement Problem***
Great Chain of being also prevalent as part of great interwoven order.
One problem as Whitehead pointed out, the scientific method Galileo and Kepler which that said the laws of Nature that can best be understood are the ones that can be measured. Measurement was the key and Good lord that changed everything. Newton unified both ideas of Galileo and Kepler in his universal Laws of gravity and motion. Universal because this a great interlocking order.
BUT, the glitch is, the realm that can be most easily and readily measured is the material realm. Now you can measure various bodily feelings and mind states and soulful illuminations but it is much much trickier and took a couple centuries to even begin to understand the soulful interiors.
In the meantime the enlightenment pioneers were measuring EVERYTHING.. material. And then within a century or two we saw the emergence of all the major sciences because of that. Physics, chemistry biology and they would almost exclusively look at only the 3rd person objective, exterior, material aspects of their respective holons because those were the ones that could be measured. Even though early pioneers had in mind the interlocking order and great chain of being, what happened was in a century or two of that materialistic MEASUREMENT, the world was indeed stuck with was in effect a massive scientific materialism.
All of the interiors, the left hand dimensions of
Feeling Bodies
Conceptual Minds
And Illumined Souls
All of them had almost inadvertently had been scrubbed from reality entirely.
The world was still a great interlocking order, but an interlocking order of nothing but the objective material dimensions of everything.
Something was real if it could at least theoretically be videotaped, seen as an object.
If you cannot see it as an objective 3rd person thing, than it is not there.
Mind is a black box, QM a black box, other interior dimensions, a black box.
Material brain is real. It is inside the organism, but you can still cut open and see it, videotape it. But when you look at that objective brain, do you see anything called a mind or consciousness? Nope... not there, not real. So much for 1st person and 2nd person realities.
Neurological processes.. yup, small enough camera you can videotape those.
So 1st person consciousness is nothing but 3rd person neuronal processes.
But still all connected in a great interlocking order including ecological systems in a great web of life. Reality reduced to lower 3rd quadrant. Dynamic system of its. No I or We or Us.
Scientific materialism had become the default official philosophy of the modern world and remains so in academia to this day.
But the problem is as beautiful as the idea is, you CANNOT think your way into waking up, into enlightenment. You cannot think yourself into enlightenment, satori, etc. You can learn everything you want to know about a great web of life, memorize all of it, but it won't wake you up. Or you think say Quantum Mechanics shows you this mystical unity, then go learn all about quantum mechanics, become a professional physicist (Which is why I changed my major to physics), but that will do NOTHING to give you a real satori a real awakening or a real enlightenment experience.
In fact one of the primary practices in virtually ALL waking up disciplines, is to learn to suspend all thinking entirely in a pure awareness. Not in the content of awareness, but AWARENESS ITSELF! Latching on to any sort of thinking process, including thinking about the great web, is exactly what prevents you from waking up. Thinking is just more content of awareness, it will show you the shadows in the cave but it absolutely will not get you OUTSIDE of the cave to pure awareness itself.
Now this 3rd person view is TRUE, but it is very very partial.
And it is definitely the case, that if you latch onto something partial, you are by definition, cutting yourself out of a larger whole.
Not even the best holistic paradigms with all their science, beauty and poetically articulated view can wake you up, because this is STILL MINDSTUFF! Sure you soul might be stirred for a brief moment, but mental maps are not going to wake you up!
We can start 3rd persons views with a modern modern view. It is common to say that the enlightenment produced a massive reductionism to a narrow atomistic materialism.
But the most common idea in the enlightenment was the great unified, interwoven system of all of Nature. John Locke called it the great interlocking order. It was a massive systems theory view. Every single thing and event in the Universe was said to be part of a great networked whole. And you could only understand the whole by understanding the parts and only understand the parts by understanding the whole.
***The Measurement Problem***
Great Chain of being also prevalent as part of great interwoven order.
One problem as Whitehead pointed out, the scientific method Galileo and Kepler which that said the laws of Nature that can best be understood are the ones that can be measured. Measurement was the key and Good lord that changed everything. Newton unified both ideas of Galileo and Kepler in his universal Laws of gravity and motion. Universal because this a great interlocking order.
BUT, the glitch is, the realm that can be most easily and readily measured is the material realm. Now you can measure various bodily feelings and mind states and soulful illuminations but it is much much trickier and took a couple centuries to even begin to understand the soulful interiors.
In the meantime the enlightenment pioneers were measuring EVERYTHING.. material. And then within a century or two we saw the emergence of all the major sciences because of that. Physics, chemistry biology and they would almost exclusively look at only the 3rd person objective, exterior, material aspects of their respective holons because those were the ones that could be measured. Even though early pioneers had in mind the interlocking order and great chain of being, what happened was in a century or two of that materialistic MEASUREMENT, the world was indeed stuck with was in effect a massive scientific materialism.
All of the interiors, the left hand dimensions of
Feeling Bodies
Conceptual Minds
And Illumined Souls
All of them had almost inadvertently had been scrubbed from reality entirely.
The world was still a great interlocking order, but an interlocking order of nothing but the objective material dimensions of everything.
Something was real if it could at least theoretically be videotaped, seen as an object.
If you cannot see it as an objective 3rd person thing, than it is not there.
Mind is a black box, QM a black box, other interior dimensions, a black box.
Material brain is real. It is inside the organism, but you can still cut open and see it, videotape it. But when you look at that objective brain, do you see anything called a mind or consciousness? Nope... not there, not real. So much for 1st person and 2nd person realities.
Neurological processes.. yup, small enough camera you can videotape those.
So 1st person consciousness is nothing but 3rd person neuronal processes.
But still all connected in a great interlocking order including ecological systems in a great web of life. Reality reduced to lower 3rd quadrant. Dynamic system of its. No I or We or Us.
Scientific materialism had become the default official philosophy of the modern world and remains so in academia to this day.
But the problem is as beautiful as the idea is, you CANNOT think your way into waking up, into enlightenment. You cannot think yourself into enlightenment, satori, etc. You can learn everything you want to know about a great web of life, memorize all of it, but it won't wake you up. Or you think say Quantum Mechanics shows you this mystical unity, then go learn all about quantum mechanics, become a professional physicist (Which is why I changed my major to physics), but that will do NOTHING to give you a real satori a real awakening or a real enlightenment experience.
In fact one of the primary practices in virtually ALL waking up disciplines, is to learn to suspend all thinking entirely in a pure awareness. Not in the content of awareness, but AWARENESS ITSELF! Latching on to any sort of thinking process, including thinking about the great web, is exactly what prevents you from waking up. Thinking is just more content of awareness, it will show you the shadows in the cave but it absolutely will not get you OUTSIDE of the cave to pure awareness itself.
Now this 3rd person view is TRUE, but it is very very partial.
And it is definitely the case, that if you latch onto something partial, you are by definition, cutting yourself out of a larger whole.
Not even the best holistic paradigms with all their science, beauty and poetically articulated view can wake you up, because this is STILL MINDSTUFF! Sure you soul might be stirred for a brief moment, but mental maps are not going to wake you up!
Part 2
A lot of talk of uniting Science and Spirituality by recognizing the Oneness in Nature and that reality is a holistic and interconnected systems within systems and the totality of all this interwoven systems is indeed a type of Great Web of Life or New Paradigm.
And this great web is exactly the grand unity it is said that the world's mystics have always told us about. Science and Religion, finally one But knowing that is not going to give you enlightenment or a real satori. You have have to directly experience that reality in its present immediacy (knowledge by acquaintance).
Humans have 2 ways of knowing something
1) Knowledge by acquaintance - direct and immediate knowledge of the thing in its direct and immediate reality. Like directly looking at a tree or a mountain. Immediately aware. TERRITORY (WAKING UP) BE IT
2) Knowledge by description - not direct knowing about something like having a photograph of a tree or a mountain or reading a book about it. Thinking about something. MAP w/ Pictures (GROWING UP) THINK ABOUT IT.
Shankara brief summary of UR
1) The world is illusory (Realize)
2) Brahman alone is real
3) Brahman is the world (great web of life)
1) You start by seeing the web of life is illusory, its a dream (Maya, samsara).
2) Direct and immediate realization. Fully present in all 3 major states of consciousness.
Can also lucid deep dream. Pure tacit awareness with no contents. Constant consciousness.
Waking up is not about the contents of awareness, but awareness itself. Stunning and life changing waking up.
3) Only after 1 and 2, now you can say Brahman is the world.
But if you just tell yourself Brahman is the world, that is not going to wake you up.
Just putting on gold chains, instead of iron chains.
Waking up is not just about understanding what can be seen in reality, but understanding the SEER itself. Pure Witness in you right now. Not content.
Atman - a direct ray of ultimate spirit itself.
It's not that quantum mechanics proves the mystical spirit, it's a matter of who is it right now that is aware of that idea.
A lot of talk of uniting Science and Spirituality by recognizing the Oneness in Nature and that reality is a holistic and interconnected systems within systems and the totality of all this interwoven systems is indeed a type of Great Web of Life or New Paradigm.
And this great web is exactly the grand unity it is said that the world's mystics have always told us about. Science and Religion, finally one But knowing that is not going to give you enlightenment or a real satori. You have have to directly experience that reality in its present immediacy (knowledge by acquaintance).
Humans have 2 ways of knowing something
1) Knowledge by acquaintance - direct and immediate knowledge of the thing in its direct and immediate reality. Like directly looking at a tree or a mountain. Immediately aware. TERRITORY (WAKING UP) BE IT
2) Knowledge by description - not direct knowing about something like having a photograph of a tree or a mountain or reading a book about it. Thinking about something. MAP w/ Pictures (GROWING UP) THINK ABOUT IT.
Shankara brief summary of UR
1) The world is illusory (Realize)
2) Brahman alone is real
3) Brahman is the world (great web of life)
1) You start by seeing the web of life is illusory, its a dream (Maya, samsara).
2) Direct and immediate realization. Fully present in all 3 major states of consciousness.
Can also lucid deep dream. Pure tacit awareness with no contents. Constant consciousness.
Waking up is not about the contents of awareness, but awareness itself. Stunning and life changing waking up.
3) Only after 1 and 2, now you can say Brahman is the world.
But if you just tell yourself Brahman is the world, that is not going to wake you up.
Just putting on gold chains, instead of iron chains.
Waking up is not just about understanding what can be seen in reality, but understanding the SEER itself. Pure Witness in you right now. Not content.
Atman - a direct ray of ultimate spirit itself.
It's not that quantum mechanics proves the mystical spirit, it's a matter of who is it right now that is aware of that idea.