Hi John,
I think I can help with your "trans dimensional"
experience (I also mention quantum stuff below). The
key here is 2 things: your persona was invoked by an
argument, and you allowed nature to break it down
again (which means you are more open than most, maybe
you're even a "green m&m", (sorry I hate the colorist
spiral dynamics stuff)). I quote you below:
> We were having some sort of rather
> unhappy and contentious
> discussion at the time, so my mind was far from
> serene. I became aware that
> the quality of the light and dark of the moonlit
> forest in the middle ground
> was changing as I observed it.
The "unhappy...discussion" is IMPORTANT: it's sets up
your "pride" self (your persona?). Most of the time,
your persona is at a low level BUT in times of
conflict it becomes well-defined. A classic example is
King Lear at the beginning where the 2 sisters lie and
Cordelia tells the unprideful truth. So your persona
is NOW up and running and well oiled (especially with
a wife you are thinking "I'm right, I'm right" etc.)
Ok, now what happens is NORMALLY you have a brew ha ha
and the fight is over. This time though something in
NATURE caught your "eye" and for whatever reason you
were open to it (maybe a childhood memory or
something). This insight into NATURE instantly
DESTROYED your persona for a MOMENT. You GAVE UP YOUR
PERSONA for one brief moment, and NATURE took over.
The highest point of articulation for the PERSONA is
ALSO the WEAKEST point of its dissolution (again refer
to King Lear).
So if you want to repeat this, you have to somehow
INVOKE your persona at it's strength and THEN at its
peak you need to turn to the MOST MADDENING thing in
your immediate area that makes the persona angry and
"LET GO" of the persona. That day, you were lucky that
the lights allowed you to let go and made you turn to
your wife who was a moment ago the MOST MADDENING
THING TO THE PERSONA. Most times though people can't
let go and they end up naked on the moors.
So your wife and the lights were important
ingredients. I usually phrase it this way: MAKE LOVE
TO THE WORLD AND THE WORLD WILL MAKE LOVE TO YOU. You
need to catch yourself in PERSONA and then TURN to the
thing that your persona thinks is wretched and "make
love" to that. When you are "angry" change it into
love, that is love whatever is in the environment. You
never know when you will go transdimensional (if you
did, it could be controlled and then that means your
persona would be involved) BUT if you learn to listen
to your PERSONA and then LEARN how to make love to the
world, it'll happen maybe 1 in 100. The other 99 times
though will be just as good and will open the world to
you in ways that you can't imagine.
Relative to quantum questions, the problem is in my
opinion an issue of measurement. What happens when you
don't have enough data to sample accurately an
experience? I think that is where science is at, we
don't have a unit smaller than a word. If you don't
have a unit smaller than a word, you can't get at or
measure things less than a word. Or in math, we don't
have a symbol less than a "symbol." Calculus comes
close with infinite symbols, but what about something
less than a symbol? We need something better than a 0
in math. I've thought something like a paraconsistent
logic might work, where there is a 0 that is not a 0
which I suppose is what happens in Quantum Mechanics.
So maybe I'm circular in my reasoning. Suffice it to
say, for me, we need a better unit of measurement.
Angus
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