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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I had a dream that I died and was greeted by a man who told me that he would teach me the “interstitials.”

I hadn’t heard that word before, so when I woke up I looked up the word interstitial. Refers to an interstice, noun
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an intervening space, esp. a very small one.

I think that you’re right about the dichotomy of all thoughts, the ever-presence of the interstice between any attempt to synthesize two ideas or generate one purely unified thought.

The pixels of our consciousness, where we can’t fill the space between the pixels, of concept or consciousness, it’s unclear.

The dream was unsettlingly vivid btw, and I was enrolled in an academy of sorts, where we are primed to go back to the world reincarnated. All of this is metaphor of course, but I lack the science to explain what it means.

In any case, the answer, I think, has to be movement from a kind of built-in counterweight, a perpetual motion at the core of all physical reality, which encompasses every aspect and application of mental reality you can think of. A lame question-begging answer, I know, but somehow without the dichotomy as a leitmotif permeating everything on a micro and macro scale there would be stasis, Parmenidean theory exploding into reality and freezing it like a painting on the wall. The dichotomy is in common terms the seed of otherness. As such, every thought contains dichotomy. If not, at worst, the cosmos would implode, or at the very least, there would be no way to eat lasagna, which itself would be sad, seeing as how lasagna kicks all ass to the power of sick.

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Bill, people in the east, well…some of them…they got this whole thing about you know…everything being “one”. Like they think the world is full of false dichotomies that are a result of the way we look at things…or something like that.

In the west, some people who lean toward wanting to buy into that idea…boil it all the way down to the whole problem of like…when you describe a thing, you have to describe it by reference to other things. Some people say that’s just the way language, or measurement works. Then after that’s all been said, some people say, “oh well then in that case since you can’t really state everything is one w/ out some kind of sublimation or contradiction or whatever, then everything must not really be one.” But then other people are like, “yeah but everything is one, we’re just fucked up in trying to describe it because language requires all these references to things which are alleged to be distinct from the one we’re trying to describe or define. But language isn’t a real thing you know it’s like a construct and so we can just ignore apparent contradictions in it so long as they’re of certain kinds, and then the world will all be one except for this little problem of defining things, and that’s good enough for us.”

People are crazy Bill. In the end, the debate between monists and dualists is a long and boring one. The only real fruit of that labor is the putting of your brain on the treadmill of trying to solve it. There’s not a solution Bill. All statements on either side of the debate are conjecture.