Rod's Summary

This week has been a time for intellectual integration of the dual threads of what I'm now calling the Linear-Causal & the Tranquil-Holistic.  Linear-Causal is my normal state of consciousness—life with all its necessities—and Tranquil-Holistic is the alternate state of conscious I glimpse during meditation.  My conceptualization of the Working Hypothesis of Completeness entails the total integration of L-C and T-H into a nothing-is-missing-here-&-now.

I seem to need this period of intellectual integration (which is part of my L-C world) in order to set the stage for a parallel non-intellectual integration (which is part of my T-H world).  It doesn't have to occur this way; it's just the way I seem to do things.  I'm looking for a Completeness that does not reject either world, but gives full, equal, and integrated equilibration to both.

As an "intellectual" I tend to explore within the focused L-C mode first, before I'm fully comfortable with the more open exploration that meditation provides.  In that way, the T-H world that opens up to me in meditation "makes sense" within my L-C intellectual world.  And vice versa.

Kinda silly of me, I guess, to engage in such a rigid-rigorous method of exploration.  If, indeed, the Working Hypothesis of Completeness makes sense as an integration of the Linear-Causal & the Tranquil-Holistic, then it shouldn't make any difference how I approach Completeness, as long as I do not reject either aspect.

In any case, I shall be curious to see how all of this intellectual activity will manifest itself in my T-H world of meditative timeless / selfless / thingless non-intellectualization.  I am curious to see if the T-H world will begin to seamlessly flow into my L-C world, and if the L-C world will likewise gently penetrate my T-H world.

... from Rod