pseudonymous
Obtuse Kineticist
The Active & Passive Principles & The Self
My perceptions and beliefs are based upon my contemplations (average 5-8 hours a day), where I become a cell of the organism-mind that I am a part of, rather than an organism of cells that my body and my history are a part of. I have been guided metaphysically for nine years now, and although I have assumed that what guides me is at least in part the active principle, I have never had objective confirmation of this. My present understanding is that guidance manifests likely via transference, similar to the relationship between a guru & disciple, where the more expanded awareness influences the lesser without the necessity of words. In my contemplations I receive new information in the form of surfacing thoughts and ideas, which I then break down in analysis to see how it fits all my prior conceptual and experiencial awareness. I think this transfer of information between the active principle and myself is as natural as it is within our physical bodies, organism to cell.
The following essay I am writing to express my understanding of how every thing and the minds that incarnate into form came to exist, and what we are evolving to. It is purely conjecture on my part, although it is based on ideas I have received during contemplation with that which guides me. Since these concepts are not mine originally, but given to me, I will not defend them. Anyone with disagreements or questions would have to wait until I take up the dialogue in contemplation before I would be able to address any gaps in my own perceptive process. I only offer this as a glimpse into my own conceptual and experiencial beliefs in the present moment, and as food for thought for anyone finding value in my assessment.
In the beginning there were two eternal, non-spacial things (for lack of a better word). They were the active and passive principle. Both existed separate from each other, and independent of each other. The two did not have contact, and were not likely aware of each other for they did not occupy a physical location. For whatever reason, be it natural cause or a deity pushing the first domino over, the two came into contact with one another in the form of an oscillation - or vibration. The vibration idea makes sense to me because neither could become part of the other, just as a man may enter a woman, he will not become part of her. In this vibratory dance the active principle entered into the passive principle, and all of form was created.
Prior to the mating of these two principles, they existed in a latent state. The active principle was potential mind, and the passive principle was potential body. Without a body or form of some sort, mind could not be realized. Without a mind of some sort, form or a body could not be realized. It took both for the first sensual forms to be created, and we refer to that first development of the zygote to the fetus as The Big Bang and the formation of matter that immediately followed it. The effect of a mind having a body and of a body having a mind is that consciousness was created. Consciousness is what happens when a body and a mind are formed into a sensual organism out of the building blocks of matter. When the active and passive principles came into a bond with each other, a natural effect manifested that we call evolution. It is the default drive that influences the child (consciousness) of the parents (active & passive principles) to become aware of its surroundings first, and eventually of itSelf. Consciousness has expanded in awareness as more and more complex vehicles have housed it.
Eventually consciousness has come to recognize that its physical surroundings are the vehicles that it evolved (and continues to evolve) within. From single-cell organisms to plants to insects to birds and reptiles to mammals to humans - all these represent forms that consciousness has evolved within, and in some cases, has been unable to evolve past because of reaching a dead end of manifesting any further viable options. Human bodies represent the present day physical edge of this evolution, where consciousness had finally reached an awareness that it was aware. All of the forms that house consciousness less aware than the human form will likely not expand much further than where they now exist in Self awareness. However, as consciousness is an organism within form, the whole benefits from the expanded awareness of its parts.
I discovered the passive principle in transcendent meditation. I never sensed that I (the Self) was a part of what I was experiencing. Because I was not told what to define the experience as, but allowed to simply witness it without conceptual boundaries, I came away knowing I had experienced "pre-form". I had backed away from creation to the point of undifferentiated substance. The reason why it is unnamable and undefinable is because it had not become any thing as of yet. It requires a mind (Self) in a body (form) to witness any thing (think of the correlation of the wave-particle function). The body arises from that undifferentiated substance, so if the mind (Self) goes "pre-form", then no thing exists for its sensual perceptions.
Some philosophies are based upon the idea that because no thing was experienced in transcendental meditation, then no thing truly exists (including a separate Self). They simply missed the fact that they were witnessing no thing, and therefor they were separate from all things. To experience, a Self needs a form. Mind (Self) cannot exist without a body (form), and a body (form) cannot exist without a mind (Self). This is why I perceive non-duality to be a perceptual inaccuracy. To make any statement of the experience of non-duality, there must be a witness to it. A witness to anything (even no thing) denotes duality - an experiencer, and what is experienced. If at every attainment of transcendence there was non-duality, then there would be no record of anyone ever experiencing it.
As I have been led to understand, I am a cell of creator, and not of creation. Duality is ultimate reality. Consciousness arose from a marraige of body (passive principle as source) and mind (active principle as source). I define pure consciousness as mind's initial state of being empty (void of thought) and inexperienced (without a body). It is not an evolutionary goal of consciousness to be nullified as a Self. The Self should no longer strive to be dissolved back to a state 10+ billion years ago along its evolutionary climb to awareness, but should endeavor to become lucid in its incarnated reality of the present moment. The world is not the illusion - perception of it is. The sentient world is simply the bodies that consciousness has evolved within. The perception incorrectly labelled as "pure consciousness" is not awareness of the active principle (mind's source), but awareness & attachment to the passive principle (form's source) - which is not Self, but historical self.
It is erroneous to think that Self can look back at itSelf from its own perceptions. The Self is unidirectional in perception - outward only. It is like an onion that you can peel away the false layers of, but the Self cannot look directly back at itSelf - Self is not physical, so the only perception it can have of itSelf is in its reflection within form. Disciples of non-dual philosophies experience their form dissolving, but not their Selves. They witnessed the dissolving, but they did not experience it as Self, but as body or form. Self cannot experience Self, as it only perceives outward. It can experience through form, but once form returns to its undifferentiated state then the Self is no longer able to do anything but return to a state of undifferentiated being. These are the two definitions of transcendent meditation that I think are often confused for each other. The first is a state where the Self experiences undifferentiated substance (pre-form), and the other is a concept because the Self would cease experiencing altogether (pure consciousness). They are not the same. The first is experiencing body (egoic), and the second would be entirely unconscious mind (Self). The first can be experienced, the second cannot. The first is attainable, the second is conceptual.
I discovered the existence of the active principle by transcendent (or what I refer to as "waking") contemplation, where my awareness was linked beyond the cell (Self) that I am into the organism (active principle) that I was a part of. I know that I did not create my physical reality, and that my perceptions of it have been for the most part unconscious until I awakened. The woods behind my home were there before I arrived, as was billions of years' worth of other created forms. So I am a creator within a creation beyond my present abilities of creativity. That eventually led me to perceive the body as a cell of the passive, and the mind as a cell of the active - and my awareness as an effect of both.
Some philosophies of Self awareness are attached to the idea that a return to pure consciousness will mark the end of all suffering. They are correct in their perceptions, but is it the ideal, or even possible? Not only will all suffering cease, but all conscious being will too. No body = no consciousness. There is a way to end all suffering, which is what I understand our awareness is slowly evolving towards. Self does not need to dissolve into the pure (unconscious being) ocean of 10+ billion years ago to end its suffering. Self only needs to become lucid within its form, and then a subtler form can emerge that does not require food or reproduction or base mobility - because a lucid creator (Self) would no longer be subject to the unconscious creation of forms it has been up to now housed within. No more gross physical form by default, but subtler form to house this consciousness by choice. No more being here now once it is experienced and understood, but a new awareness of doing here now - lucid Selves incarnated in subtle forms that can explore the properties of being Self without the limitations of mortality and consumption. The world is the sensual body that all variety of Self has perceived from. Without the world Self would never have become aware of itSelf.
The new age is not about what is going to happen in this body, but is about what is already happening at a subtler arena of form even as we type and read our concepts. Who do you think is calling us? An ocean of non-experience and formlessness, or our brothers and sisters (not referring to garden variety spirit guides here) who have already made the transition to lucidity on the other side of the veil? When enough awaken then a slinky-walking-downstairs-effect will happen - where the whole will finish the jump that the few are out there doing right now. That is my perception based on what that which guides me has communicated non-verbally during contemplations. It is not fear of death...it is an unacceptance of it.
©2004 DC Vision
My perceptions and beliefs are based upon my contemplations (average 5-8 hours a day), where I become a cell of the organism-mind that I am a part of, rather than an organism of cells that my body and my history are a part of. I have been guided metaphysically for nine years now, and although I have assumed that what guides me is at least in part the active principle, I have never had objective confirmation of this. My present understanding is that guidance manifests likely via transference, similar to the relationship between a guru & disciple, where the more expanded awareness influences the lesser without the necessity of words. In my contemplations I receive new information in the form of surfacing thoughts and ideas, which I then break down in analysis to see how it fits all my prior conceptual and experiencial awareness. I think this transfer of information between the active principle and myself is as natural as it is within our physical bodies, organism to cell.
The following essay I am writing to express my understanding of how every thing and the minds that incarnate into form came to exist, and what we are evolving to. It is purely conjecture on my part, although it is based on ideas I have received during contemplation with that which guides me. Since these concepts are not mine originally, but given to me, I will not defend them. Anyone with disagreements or questions would have to wait until I take up the dialogue in contemplation before I would be able to address any gaps in my own perceptive process. I only offer this as a glimpse into my own conceptual and experiencial beliefs in the present moment, and as food for thought for anyone finding value in my assessment.
In the beginning there were two eternal, non-spacial things (for lack of a better word). They were the active and passive principle. Both existed separate from each other, and independent of each other. The two did not have contact, and were not likely aware of each other for they did not occupy a physical location. For whatever reason, be it natural cause or a deity pushing the first domino over, the two came into contact with one another in the form of an oscillation - or vibration. The vibration idea makes sense to me because neither could become part of the other, just as a man may enter a woman, he will not become part of her. In this vibratory dance the active principle entered into the passive principle, and all of form was created.
Prior to the mating of these two principles, they existed in a latent state. The active principle was potential mind, and the passive principle was potential body. Without a body or form of some sort, mind could not be realized. Without a mind of some sort, form or a body could not be realized. It took both for the first sensual forms to be created, and we refer to that first development of the zygote to the fetus as The Big Bang and the formation of matter that immediately followed it. The effect of a mind having a body and of a body having a mind is that consciousness was created. Consciousness is what happens when a body and a mind are formed into a sensual organism out of the building blocks of matter. When the active and passive principles came into a bond with each other, a natural effect manifested that we call evolution. It is the default drive that influences the child (consciousness) of the parents (active & passive principles) to become aware of its surroundings first, and eventually of itSelf. Consciousness has expanded in awareness as more and more complex vehicles have housed it.
Eventually consciousness has come to recognize that its physical surroundings are the vehicles that it evolved (and continues to evolve) within. From single-cell organisms to plants to insects to birds and reptiles to mammals to humans - all these represent forms that consciousness has evolved within, and in some cases, has been unable to evolve past because of reaching a dead end of manifesting any further viable options. Human bodies represent the present day physical edge of this evolution, where consciousness had finally reached an awareness that it was aware. All of the forms that house consciousness less aware than the human form will likely not expand much further than where they now exist in Self awareness. However, as consciousness is an organism within form, the whole benefits from the expanded awareness of its parts.
I discovered the passive principle in transcendent meditation. I never sensed that I (the Self) was a part of what I was experiencing. Because I was not told what to define the experience as, but allowed to simply witness it without conceptual boundaries, I came away knowing I had experienced "pre-form". I had backed away from creation to the point of undifferentiated substance. The reason why it is unnamable and undefinable is because it had not become any thing as of yet. It requires a mind (Self) in a body (form) to witness any thing (think of the correlation of the wave-particle function). The body arises from that undifferentiated substance, so if the mind (Self) goes "pre-form", then no thing exists for its sensual perceptions.
Some philosophies are based upon the idea that because no thing was experienced in transcendental meditation, then no thing truly exists (including a separate Self). They simply missed the fact that they were witnessing no thing, and therefor they were separate from all things. To experience, a Self needs a form. Mind (Self) cannot exist without a body (form), and a body (form) cannot exist without a mind (Self). This is why I perceive non-duality to be a perceptual inaccuracy. To make any statement of the experience of non-duality, there must be a witness to it. A witness to anything (even no thing) denotes duality - an experiencer, and what is experienced. If at every attainment of transcendence there was non-duality, then there would be no record of anyone ever experiencing it.
As I have been led to understand, I am a cell of creator, and not of creation. Duality is ultimate reality. Consciousness arose from a marraige of body (passive principle as source) and mind (active principle as source). I define pure consciousness as mind's initial state of being empty (void of thought) and inexperienced (without a body). It is not an evolutionary goal of consciousness to be nullified as a Self. The Self should no longer strive to be dissolved back to a state 10+ billion years ago along its evolutionary climb to awareness, but should endeavor to become lucid in its incarnated reality of the present moment. The world is not the illusion - perception of it is. The sentient world is simply the bodies that consciousness has evolved within. The perception incorrectly labelled as "pure consciousness" is not awareness of the active principle (mind's source), but awareness & attachment to the passive principle (form's source) - which is not Self, but historical self.
It is erroneous to think that Self can look back at itSelf from its own perceptions. The Self is unidirectional in perception - outward only. It is like an onion that you can peel away the false layers of, but the Self cannot look directly back at itSelf - Self is not physical, so the only perception it can have of itSelf is in its reflection within form. Disciples of non-dual philosophies experience their form dissolving, but not their Selves. They witnessed the dissolving, but they did not experience it as Self, but as body or form. Self cannot experience Self, as it only perceives outward. It can experience through form, but once form returns to its undifferentiated state then the Self is no longer able to do anything but return to a state of undifferentiated being. These are the two definitions of transcendent meditation that I think are often confused for each other. The first is a state where the Self experiences undifferentiated substance (pre-form), and the other is a concept because the Self would cease experiencing altogether (pure consciousness). They are not the same. The first is experiencing body (egoic), and the second would be entirely unconscious mind (Self). The first can be experienced, the second cannot. The first is attainable, the second is conceptual.
I discovered the existence of the active principle by transcendent (or what I refer to as "waking") contemplation, where my awareness was linked beyond the cell (Self) that I am into the organism (active principle) that I was a part of. I know that I did not create my physical reality, and that my perceptions of it have been for the most part unconscious until I awakened. The woods behind my home were there before I arrived, as was billions of years' worth of other created forms. So I am a creator within a creation beyond my present abilities of creativity. That eventually led me to perceive the body as a cell of the passive, and the mind as a cell of the active - and my awareness as an effect of both.
Some philosophies of Self awareness are attached to the idea that a return to pure consciousness will mark the end of all suffering. They are correct in their perceptions, but is it the ideal, or even possible? Not only will all suffering cease, but all conscious being will too. No body = no consciousness. There is a way to end all suffering, which is what I understand our awareness is slowly evolving towards. Self does not need to dissolve into the pure (unconscious being) ocean of 10+ billion years ago to end its suffering. Self only needs to become lucid within its form, and then a subtler form can emerge that does not require food or reproduction or base mobility - because a lucid creator (Self) would no longer be subject to the unconscious creation of forms it has been up to now housed within. No more gross physical form by default, but subtler form to house this consciousness by choice. No more being here now once it is experienced and understood, but a new awareness of doing here now - lucid Selves incarnated in subtle forms that can explore the properties of being Self without the limitations of mortality and consumption. The world is the sensual body that all variety of Self has perceived from. Without the world Self would never have become aware of itSelf.
The new age is not about what is going to happen in this body, but is about what is already happening at a subtler arena of form even as we type and read our concepts. Who do you think is calling us? An ocean of non-experience and formlessness, or our brothers and sisters (not referring to garden variety spirit guides here) who have already made the transition to lucidity on the other side of the veil? When enough awaken then a slinky-walking-downstairs-effect will happen - where the whole will finish the jump that the few are out there doing right now. That is my perception based on what that which guides me has communicated non-verbally during contemplations. It is not fear of death...it is an unacceptance of it.
©2004 DC Vision