Generally and overall a good essay for those who know nonduality, but nothing new. For those new to nonduality, this may contribute to mythic/mystic-romantic understandings of nonduality. The author should've just talked about that pure awareness and not the benefits, traditions, culture, etc., because he only made judgement statements after that which, inherently dualistic, betrayed some of his truer statements. I agree with others regarding his bias to Dzogchen, which is not uncommon for Westerners trained from some Tibetan schools that tend to be more brash (actually quite similar to Zen). Below are some statements and my accompanying mental commentary. “Nothing is that simple.”-True, and nothing is more complex. "Your unhindered awareness of that base is what it takes to comprehend everything that exists."-absurd statement of a phony holy "Once you have experienced awareness of space in this way, there is no doubt or uncertainty possible"-except that you're still a human on the level of complexity from which you arrived at this realization and wrote this essay, and that you will absolutely continue to have doubts, ie be human. "In recognizing the non-dual state you can be aware only of non-duality"-Who can be aware of nonduality? "The non-dual state can only ever be perfect. And since your awareness arises out of the nature of mind, you never leave it. But your awareness can be distracted to the point of forgetting."- Mind arises out of awareness, the author is metaphysically inconsistent. Who's awareness gets distracted? "Through your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin, you always perceive the material world in the past tense. Sound waves and photonic light and aromatic or other molecular sensory contacts require time for expression. This mode of delayed awareness can only be used to determine what once was, not what is actually happening."-Facts, for the you that is experientially constrained through the organizational complexity of a human. All is the Self. "If you are dwelling on contact with your senses, you tend to construct narratives of dualistic values"- True. Thoughts as well, really anything manifest as phenomenal content. "Shocker! None of this is breaking news. It’s just ignored by mainstream modern culture." -The more it changes the more it stays the same. "You hear words like attainment, realization, liberation, and enlightenment. These all refer to the same state of clear awareness about effortless being."-Not necessarily, and a dangerous comment to make. "Yes, you will need to learn about energy flow in your body in order to understand the most subtle forms of effort that you are making, usually unconsciously. But this can be understood by many people through what are called the Dzogchen preliminaries together with some basic breathing practices. You’ll likely pick up supportive Tantra practices along the way to fill in."- If he's going to attribute all Tantra to Dzogchen then I'm suspecting he doesn't know many other traditions. "Slowly, and creaking with complaints, science is gingerly and not a little reluctantly coming to deal with the existence of the mind"-Not true whatsoever, this is laughable. Brahmavidya is a science, it's the science of direct experience, and even MENS has been dealing with the existence of the mind for literally as long as culture has existed. "So, when you start to realize this authentically but not yet fully, what do you suppose can happen? If you are becoming more aware of the wholeness of everything as a unity, you can start to have information available that is derived from the non-dual but which occurs relative to the material world. There’s all the hint you need right there to understand non-local information events like precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, and the host of other properties of realized minds that are inventoried in great detail, called siddhis."- Ugh... he's got it backwards. "Don’t think yourself special or important because you are aware these things happen to you. Just let them come and go, without effort, and you’ll keep making progress."-truest statement in the whole essay "See you on the other side"-who will see who on the other side of what? Regards, Nicholas G. Lattanzio, Psy.D. On Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 10:34 AM Cory David Barker < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > *CAUTION: *This email originated from outside of JMU. Do not click links > or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is > safe. > ------------------------------ > @ All > > Definition of space ratiocination and a lexiconic multiplicity of > associations to different instances for how people represent space across > religion, philosophy, and sciences: > > *Definitions of Space Ratiocination* > > Space Ratiocination domain: Non-being, potential, & emergence > > - Spatial static mode: simulacra of void, emptiness, non-existence. > - Spatial dynamic mode: simulacra of potential, what could be or could > no longer be, possibility for emergence. > - Spatial multinamic mode: simulacra of the simultaneity of what is > not and would could, as emergence and disappearance, beginnings and endings. > > > > *Instantiations of Domain and Modes* > > Space as Domain: > > - Egyptian Nu (Redford, 2003); Chinese Tao (LaFargue, 1992); Greek > Khaos (Gustav, 1971), Newton’s relative and absolute space (1687); Leibniz > notion of space (Leibniz & Clarke, 1716); Kant’s a priori space (Kant, > 1781); Architectonic space (Lefebvre, 1991) > > Space in Modes: > > - Static: Buddhist sunyata (Monier-Williams, 1964); Norse ginnungagap > (Sturluson, 1916); Kabbalist ayin (Scholem, 1995); Maorian te kore (Walker, > 1990) > - Dynamic: Chinese yin (DeFrancis, 2003); Potentiality, i.e. dunamus > (Aristotle, -4th); Possibility & probability theory (Laplace, 1812) > - Multinamic: Judaist, Christian, Islam, “creation from nothing”; > Emergentism (Emmeche et al., 1997) > > *Instantiations of Tessellation* > > - Tessellations: Infinite divisibility of space (Fullerton, 1901; > Kant, 1781/2004) > - Fabric: Einstein’s spacetime fabric (Einstein, 1905) > - Particle: Quantum spacetime (Snyder, 1947) > - Chemical: Chemical compound space (Chang et al., 2016) > - Amalgam: Embodied space (Low, 2003; Durão, 2009) > - Telluric: Proxemics of cultural space (Baldassare & Feller, 1975); > Social space (Bourdieu, 1989; Lefebvre, 1991); Atmospheric space (Tokunaga > & Cox, 2000) consisting of troposphere, mesosphere, stratosphere (Wallace & > Hobbs, 2006); Geospace (Lotko, 2017) > - Celestial: Heliosphere (Schrijver & Siscoe, 2010); Interplanetary > medium (Gloeckler, 1979) > - Stellar: Interstellar space (Herbst, 2001); > - Galactic: Intergalactic space (Politsch & Croft, 2019); Voids > (Wszolek, 1993) > - Cosmic: Cosmic space (Padmanabhan, 2012); Cosmic/super voids (Linder > et al., 1995); Expansion of the space in the universe (Lachieze-Rey & > Luminet, 1995; Riess, 2020) > > C. > > On Feb 26, 2022, at 10:00 AM, Bruce Alderman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > *CAUTION: *This email originated from outside of JMU. Do not click links > or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is > safe. > ------------------------------ > Thanks for this, Gregg. As Rachel says, there's a bit of grandiosity and > salesmanship in this article, but the view he presents is something > explored in great depth in the Time-Space-Knowledge (TSK) vision of > Tarthang Tulku, or in Dzogchen or some other Buddhist schools. TSK doesn't > reject time and only emphasize space, but expands and transforms the > understanding and experience of time just as this author is inviting a > transformation of 'space.' In Dzogchen, or related practices like Mother > Tantra, sleep yoga is one of the practices that lets you directly discover > that 'mind' is always 'on,' even in so-called deep (unconscious) sleep. > Dzogchen, especially when presented as part of the 9 Vehicles (from > shamanism up), is one of the richest and most profound bodies of teachings > I've ever encountered, after years of practicing in multiple traditions. > As for the relationship of Dzogchen and Zen, I agree with Rachel -- the > fruit of their teachings may not be identical (and I say that from the > point of view that all traditions produce fruits with their own unique > flavors, not from the point of view of ranking), but they are indeed very > close. > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 6:46 AM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Hi TOK Folks, >> >> Given some of the exchanges on “pure awareness” and ‘isness” and >> nonduality, you might find this blog to be of interest: >> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__medium.com_simultaneum_the-2Dkey-2Dto-2Dall-2Dexistence-2Dfe582ab3acda&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=_JG-oALsra3ct8yzFnZd1UmE8QgzFd9jPLJuSErENUY&s=ihr4y1hVFH6W9d_nBk-5sgRsu3J_EhAg8A1cr2fzTpc&e= >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__medium.com_simultaneum_the-2Dkey-2Dto-2Dall-2Dexistence-2Dfe582ab3acda&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=PFSX54gLH4j3bIRzTKN3kkRcUrmkbmWC69p4zbUgQsU&s=TaHmceqsrMDhYaZK7JRQgkxI-7MYo3_dokhQho1OY7I&e=> >> >> >> Best, >> Gregg >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________ >> >> Gregg Henriques, Ph.D. >> President of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration >> (2022) >> >> Professor >> Department of Graduate Psychology >> 216 Johnston Hall >> MSC 7401 >> James Madison University >> Harrisonburg, VA 22807 >> (540) 568-7857 (phone) >> (540) 568-4747 (fax) >> >> >> *Be that which enhances dignity and well-being with integrity.* >> >> Check out the Unified Theory Of Knowledge homepage at: >> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org_&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=_JG-oALsra3ct8yzFnZd1UmE8QgzFd9jPLJuSErENUY&s=d2TvHMt8AcLq4604p1mZ978U7H-lZPF32IEetF4qzts&e= >> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=PFSX54gLH4j3bIRzTKN3kkRcUrmkbmWC69p4zbUgQsU&s=7DPNtoz9dP6q_853M2JGTaWGGH5kWDgw9-bfXTSTcxg&e=> >> >> >> ############################ >> >> To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: >> mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the >> following link: >> http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 >> > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the > following link: > http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 > > > ############################ > > To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: > mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the > following link: > http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1 > ############################ To unsubscribe from the TOK-SOCIETY-L list: write to: mailto:[log in to unmask] or click the following link: http://listserv.jmu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=TOK-SOCIETY-L&A=1