Layers & Levels

Layers & Levels Chapter 13 Of Cathedrals and Civilizations

that which splits apart comes together
that which is agitated becomes tranquil
that which never moves has movement all around

Second conversation with Grok

What are the main arguments now playing out about how consciousness is an irreducible element in ‘reality’?
Grok answers: …

First Encounter with A.I. Grok

GROK’s Summary: 1. The series emphasizes the idea that reality is not singular but composed of multiple layers and levels, or dimensions. This concept is applied to various contexts, from daily activities to philosophical and spiritual insights, suggesting that what we perceive as reality is multifaceted, involving physical, mental, and experiential dimensions.

Layers & Levels Chapter 12

In the next few chapters, we will explore the Layers & Levels premise in contemporary, everyday settings versus mapping out various lists from philosophical or spiritual traditions.

Layers & Levels Punto 6: Terrence Howard’s Multidimensionality

Yet, we cannot perceive or even begin to measure either of the 3 expressed Dimensions mentioned here without the position from which we observe the intersection of these planes. A position that is in and of itself a separate and distinct Dimensional plane of Space /Time.

Layers & Levels Punto 5: Third Person Objective View: a Philosophical Devil

This assumption, that there is a ‘third party’ view, a view without a mind or soul, a mechanical basis of all Reality, is the modern age’s Philosophical Devil.

Layers & Levels Chapter 11 Kitchen Sink Multidimensionality

Ladies and gentlemen, the metaphysical elephant in the room: Mind.

Layers & Levels Chapter Ten: The Neoplatonic Tripartite Cosmos

‘neoplatonism was the philosophical version of the Silk Road that bound the East and the West together giving them a shared lingua franca, lingua philosophia, by which they could deeply enter into transformative dialogue and intercultural exchange with each other.’

Layers & Levels Chapter Eight: Body Speech and Mind

Flowers in their flowering communicate the lovely enlightened language of Flowering Being

With manifold qualities of form, texture, colour, temperature, scent, beauty, sensitivity.

As with flowers so with all, from microscopic universes to macrocosmic spiralling galaxies…

Layers & Levels Introduction Part Three

Reality is more like a dream world conjured by a combination of one overall Being or Consciousness field within which unlimited particular living points of view including yourself, myself, the birds, the bees, the flowers and the trees and so on ad infinitum, each of whose perceptions constitute a unique dimension of ‘reality’, something I like to call our ‘Experiential Continuum’.

Layers & Levels Chapter Seven: The Five Buddha Families

Continuity in that the seeming gap between the wisdom of a fully realized Buddha and the ignorance of an ordinary sentient being mired in emotion-laden samsara is actually non-existent, much as the top and bottom sides of the same hand are mutually co-existent. In the jargon: wisdom and confusion co-emerge, or are ‘not-two’.

Layers & Levels Punto 4 Metacrisis

For reasons which Iain well describes, we have devalued Goodness, Beauty and Truth, appreciation and experience of which can be called ‘the sacred’, and instead dedicated ourselves to a limited, literal, left brain dominated approach which prides itself on reducing the complex terrain that is ‘reality’ into a clear, compact map and then goes on to believe that the map is real and what it is mapping, the actual terrain, is largely fictive.

Layers & Levels Chapter Six: Materialism Revisited

Materialism, in philosophy, the view that all facts (including facts about the human mind and will and the course of human history) are causally dependent upon physical processes, or even reducible to them.

Layers & Levels Punto 3: Vortexography

There are lots of different layers and levels even on this one-dimensional plane of a continuous, curved line on paper. There’s a lot going on in this one simple thing; as is true of all things.

Layers & Levels Chapter Five: Heaven Earth & Man

Venerating the past in itself will not solve the world’s problems. We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present. When you appreciate a painting or a piece of music or a work of literature, no matter when it was created, you appreciate it now. You experience the same now in which it was created. It is always now.