“It should be evident now that the spiritual retracing cannot be accomplished through the same tools we etched instinctively into the mental space – we cannot simply conceptualize our way to the inner nature of the etched spaces, because that leaves us insensitive to the inner gestures we are making in the act of conceptualization.”
There is no percept available to us of agency or will and the concept alone is, for this reason, as it were, empty. Instead, agency has to be grasped through intuition or not at all because it belongs to that energetic dimension of being in which concept and percept are indisseverable and, by that token, imperceptible. It’s a power and a life that we cannot perceive because we are.
To get a handle on this experientially, I have often had recourse to a sort of koan: “given the transformations and evolution of any conscious experience, how do I discriminate intentional changes from accidental ones?” The answer is always so immediate that I am liable to look past it.
“It should be evident now that the spiritual retracing cannot be accomplished through the same tools we etched instinctively into the mental space – we cannot simply conceptualize our way to the inner nature of the etched spaces, because that leaves us insensitive to the inner gestures we are making in the act of conceptualization.”
There is no percept available to us of agency or will and the concept alone is, for this reason, as it were, empty. Instead, agency has to be grasped through intuition or not at all because it belongs to that energetic dimension of being in which concept and percept are indisseverable and, by that token, imperceptible. It’s a power and a life that we cannot perceive because we are.
To get a handle on this experientially, I have often had recourse to a sort of koan: “given the transformations and evolution of any conscious experience, how do I discriminate intentional changes from accidental ones?” The answer is always so immediate that I am liable to look past it.