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THE
MYTH of SUBJECT OBJECT STRUCTURE
and the
IMAGINARY SELF
Under construction and revision.
MYTH
and SEPARATION
AFTER READING BOHM
I've been thinking about the so called objective world of time and space,
that it only seems
real when you think it or talk about it as if it is real. And the same is true
for the so called
objective world that is out there. It only seems like
it is out there when we think we are
in here because we experience what we say and think.
That is, we are taught to say we are in here and everything else is out
there. When we say this, think
this, we experience this and the experience is then seen and used as proof for the
in/out here/there.
When we say it, think it, act and pretend it to be so, we experience it.
Look how wonderful it is to be in here separated from everything else that
is out there. If we were
not in here, we might wet because there's so much water around - not to mention
all the dirt. We might
get very dirty if we were out there instead of in here.
I reckon this is linguistic relativity, which means that what is said or
thought determines
what is experienced (von Humboldt). When something different is said or
thought, different experience occurs.
You experience what you think and say because you feel the thinking and
saying. Thinking and
saying are not just thinking and saying; they are also physical, chemical and
electric processes
in the brain, in us. What you think and say and experience appears to be what
you are more than the
image on your drivers license or the image you see in the mirror. What occurs
in the brain is you
second by second, nano second by nano second - even before you know it is you.
The significance of this becomes obvious when we wish a change in ourselves,
say when we want to
change a habit. To change habits, first the brain/mind processes that must
change; this will
change the habit. Before we can change the brain/mind processes responsible for
habit, we must be aware
of them and must see how they cause the habit. You can think of it as
proprioception of awareness,
of thinking and saying. Proprioception of the body indicates the awareness of
what the body is
doing, its movements, attitudes, etc.
When it seems you are inside a body separated from the world around you,
that is the imaginary
experience created by language. When it seems you are in there
looking through the eyes at a
separated world, that experience is imaginary, that experience
is
imagination. Maybe we say that separation appears only
with imagination .
Some questions may occur:
Does it only seem there is a self inside a body, looking out through the
eyes, hearing through
the ears, feeling through or with the skin?
Does it only seem that we are inside a separated body looking out through the
eyes at a separated
world of separated things because of experiencing identity, experiencing the
identity with what is
said, even with the subject object structure of language?
Does it have to be that way?
People such as Bohm and Goswami say thinking or thought is physical reality;
it is interacting
brain chemicals, more like ion flow than images in the brain.
What is actually true and real? Are we what we think or
imagine we
and say we are?
What if we use the consciousness that we are in and that is in us to
create the painful, anxious
experience of being separated things, separated selves? What if we could
experience being
without the experience of being a separated self doing the experiencing?
What if experience is not what a self does? What if self is an element of
experience rather
than experience being an element of self? What if the whole of being is
experiencing you as a part
just as you experience a part of your body? What if BEING, the WHOLE is the
experiencer and you are
in experience as you are in the air you breathe?
Giving attention, it seems obvious that we are not separated from the
earth or from the universe.
Yet we talk and think and act as if we are. When we speak of our self, when we
say "I" and mean this
that is not anything else, we are creating the experience of being separated.
What if the so-called objective world only seems to be 'out there'
because we are trained to
say and think and act as if we are a separated THING 'in here' and the world we
are separated
from is out there? What if all of being, creation if you wish, is being created
moment by
moment and you could experience it moment by moment?
Is experience, physical experience, only what we say it is? Is the
experience of the
physical determined by words, by words that determine shape, measurement?
Do words measure and determine experience? Is a word a measure of
experience?
Do words function as measuring units ... like inches and feet and pounds
and acres and spoons?
Does language itself measure experience? Does the form of language
measure and determine
what is experienced ...
and therefore spirit?
Is this what Einstein means ... and Humboldt, et.al., those who deal with
and speak of relativity?
Is it the logos
of being that shapes and creates experience of Being? Is
the LOGOS related to intention, shaped by words?
Does intention, meaning determine our experience
of events and of locality? Does INTENTION create
the LOCAL PHYSICAL REALITY from the NON LOCAL SPIRITUAL REALITY?
Does INTENTION and LOGOS measure and
thereby determine the experience of physical
reality? It appears certain that INTENTION shapes and determines the future
experience of the body.
For example, when you are thirsty and
INTEND going to the kitchen faucet for water, you soon find
experienced shaped as the kitchen and faucet, find your body positioned in that
locality.
Is it INTENTION that drives the body to
the kitchen? Does INTENTION constellate trillions of events of energy
that create the physical body in movement toward the kitchen?
Is it INTENTION that also creates the
experience of LOCALITY being separated from the NON LOCALITY?
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