A Perpetuation of the False Dichotomy...

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[size=140]~~~ Every thought is a perversion, a perpetuation of the false dichotomy that is our reality. ~~~[/size]

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That was a thought I had during my last session which was Wednesday, July 31, 2013.

At the time that thought was the literal revelation of a deep insight that I was in the middle of experiencing.

Kind-of a breakthrough statement that I am still able to comprehend and understand now. Now that I am in, back into, our waking sleep that we call normal consciousness.

I can’t really say for sure the exact words I used, it could well have been something more like, Every thought is a perpetuation of the false dichotomy that is our ego.

As I have mentioned before, I have been experimenting with intense, mental, physical, and emotional exercises that I put myself through about twice a week.

The exercises are geared towards peaking self-consciousness.

The exercises force me to move beyond myself.

I’m 58 years old.

When I first explored, DEEPLY explored self-consciousness, and briefly, objective consciousness, I was young. Quite young.

Things are different back then. The wind is with you.

I am certain that an individual who will be a philosopher…a real philosopher must experience SOMETHING quite deep at an early age.


You must EXPERIENCE something quite out of the ordinary narrow cone of perception.

At my age you put the book down.

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It happened again.

Quite unexpectedly.


Perhaps that is the best and only way that the philosophical experience I crave so deeply, will ever come to me now.

I don’t want to try to be too specific but, at this time, from what I can see, there are three main elements that must be present in order for me to be washed in a spiritual ocean that has no name and exists in a reality that we subsist in, yet do not experience in our normal state of consciousness.

The first element of the triumvirate is something I have no control over. It must just happen. As odd as it sounds the first element I need is depression. Raw, burning, endlessly hopeless, depression. It can’t be faked or looked beyond. There is no other way to put it. Deep, hopeless immersion into an uncontrollable funk. Drowning in depression. Plain. Simple.[/size]

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[size=124]The second element is a fire, a thumos. An emotion that stirs me inside in a way that is unsettling and a bit anxious. The first few times you have this feeling of thumos you want to say something, or release it somehow. You feel the need to describe the feeling to someone close to you. To get it off your chest. Don’t do that. Treat the feeling of thumos like a hunger. A hunger that reminds me of what I could possibly experience if I can move beyond the perpetuation of the false dichotomy that makes-up my false reality, the seemingly Gordian hell that I awake to every morning and needlessly throw all of my energy into throughout the day and deep into the night.

The third element is an intense and perhaps initially a complex exercise. The exercise takes preparation, focus, the best I can muster mentally, physically, and emotionally, and an important a bit of luck. In addition, I must push myself beyond myself within the time frame of this workout.

Then I relax. Completely. Totally. I lay down, close my eyes and continue to listen to all sounds that are around me. If I am lucky my consciousness overrides my intellectual function. And I become more than myself. I become everything and nothing.

If all elements and preparation come together, along with more than a bit of luck the perpetuation of the false dichotomy dissolves for a minute, for an eternity.
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