| Subject: Do you ever experience perceptual fusion with phenomena? |
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Chris
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Date Posted: 12:56:34 03/23/01 Fri
In reply to:
Paul
's message, "Re: creative exhaustion" on 18:54:43 03/21/01 Wed
"Piles and piles of exhaustion." Ah....
Say, I have a question about the view from your chair. The other day, as I sank into exhaustion with my grenadine in hand, I saw the things in my room for a long moment as myself. That moment passed, and I returned to feeling separate.
The thing I noticed was that that moment of non-separateness was rather intense. It wasn't just that I felt a seamlessness between my awareness and the world, but even more: I felt like I was directly remembering phenomena as myself - my very inmost, deepest sense of being here and being a conscious person. I whispered "everything is here," in muted surprise. I felt a profound love for each thing I saw on my desk, like it was really me, and nothing less. Things themselves were imbued with the same intimate identity of consciousness that is often so reticent and scrunched in separateness "inside" me.
I spoke with Joe about this yesterday, and he said that this degree of perceptual fusion with phenemona is not his steady state, but it may be an extreme moment along the continuum of awakeness. I know that the lamp was not imbued with the feeling of me-ness that characterizes my individuate soul-nature, but nevertheless that lamp was imbued with me in a very intimate, deep and real way.
I want to ask if you ever experience this degree of perceptual fusion with phenomena, because by myself, I tend to doubt the entire experience as a case of inspired dreaminess on my part. Well, that could be true too...so I want to articulate this as carefully as I can and see what others think.
Thanks,
Chris
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