The World of the Terribly Obvious (Mar 31 2007) part 5

0:03 - an individual at a level tries to understand other levels, but holds that understanding at the space they are at

1:11 - this has been a major tripping point for the whole mythopoetic movement: the pre-trans fallacy rears its head again

1:24 - Joseph Campbell: when myths are taken as literal, that perverts the meaning of the myth

1:46 - Campbell is attempting to make prerational myths carry transrational truths: a classic pre - trans fallacy mistake

3:03 - Campbell is saying that only myths held in a rational space are real

5:31 - few myths are generated at a transrational level

7:53 - only at second tier does perspective become expansive enough to allow for hermeneutics

14:51 - Krishnamurti didn't recognize relative levels of development

16:47 - you can't see structures - they're not in given awareness

17:19 - the individual subject is used by the structure

18:14 - but deconstruction of the self is not the same as the Buddhist no-self

18:32 - structures are intersubjective systems - a nexus agency

21:46 - the postmodern exploration of phenomena has divorced itself from state training

30:33 - each transpersonal structure transcends and includes the previous states; as you go through the higher structures the previous states become permanently available

32:05 - the more you can attain deeper transpersonal states, the more freedom and creativity you have in shifting your awareness

33:15 - traditional levels of the subtle body: the etheric, the astral, the mental, the psychic

39:44 - green is susceptible to pre-modern myths and other aspects of the pre-rational world (the eco-primitive purism, "yesterday was one with source", etc.)

40:44 - green is also susceptible to the anti-rationality of the boomers (just trust your feelings, don't think, etc.)

40:44 - feelings can't take the role of other (which is kind of important)

46:21 - art connects with an audience when some part of it resonates at their altitude

50:23 - an artefact is something made by a sentient holon whose agency or form is imprinted on it

1:00:15 - reality is not only physical, it is psychophysical -Adi Da

1:00:32 - but don't take that to mean that we are creating phenomena (e.g. The Secret)

1:00:44 - what it means is we are co-creating our experience of phenomena, and we can shift our world by shifting our perception

1:04:25 - The Witness, no-mind, is absolute subjectivity

1:04:33 - that doesn't mean it's a subject - it's nondual, neither subject nor object

1:04:39 - what it means is that it lies in the direction of subjectivity (I Am-ness)

1:04:45 - when you objectify everything and enter absolute subjectivity, then you hit the nondual

1:04:51 - in absolute subjectivity all subjects and objects are arising within it

1:07:00 - The Witness is usually looking through a relative I

1:07:11 - but the feeling of The Witness is not there - it is vast emptiness

1:07:17 - The Witness is that which you can't see or feel

1:07:32 - who am I?

1:15:15 - there can be an art, morals and science in all four quadrants

1:17:27 - in modernity, the it domain (science) took over the I and the we domains; that's a problem

1:17:39 - but don't make a worse mistake by then condemning all of modernity