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Toward the end of the
week my continued reading of Morris Berman's Re-enchantment Of The
World, in concert with the WoK practice, led to an exhilarating
breakthrough in understanding.
I had been exploring
the idea of re-entering a visceral intimacy with the deeper world as a
way of
"completing the completeness" of the Working Hypothesis. Early in the
week I realized that intellectual ego-consciousness is not something
"added to" the visceral body-consciousness of infancy, but is an
extension of body-consciousness deeper out in to the world. Not
visceral-body
vs intellectual-ego, but a body-consciousness whose "body" does not
stop abruptly at the skin.
Then the real
breakthrough came a couple of days later when I realized that the
completeness
of the Working Hypothesis already exists in consciousness itself
(which,
ironically, I "already" knew!). And that all the ways of knowing which
I've been trying to integrate into a monistic Working Hypothesis are
nothing
but variations of the inherent pluralism of consciousness. In other
words, the
all-encompassing monistic holism that I am looking for is consciousness
itself,
which is BOTH monistic AND pluralistic. One face, having many faces.
Polymorphous
Consciousness
In other words, the
completeness of consciousness is in its incompleteness. While
consciousness can
never encompass every thing at once, at every moment consciousness
encompasses
everything it can. There is nothing left over, nothing missing, in
every
moment, and yet every moment is but a passing incompleteness.
Consciousness is ALWAYS
complete, yet NEVER complete. (Fractals, perhaps?)
[My 5-minute
"meditations" are now "contemplations," which feels more
natural to me at this point in the process.]
... from Rod