click this doll house for more detail

click this doll house for more detail
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Saturday, November 24, 2012

infinitesimal

When the infinitesimal line that separates the world between the light of being and the darkness of non-being is shattered, a beautiful chaos appears. The subconscious mind of the eternal Self connects itself to the lucid and sublime matter, making a reality known that is the reemerging side of the world of goodness and perfection. At the infinitesimal moment when the infinitesimal line is crossed, universes appear as if parallel consciousness communicates the intricacies of the truth behind the eternal world. The Self identifies with the infinite refractions of the prism of light - an array of colors in which consciousness moves...

Where are't thou, my brother?

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Upon second thought

The self upon reflection of the moments preceding the current impulse to write, a sense of realization becomes apparent. The lack of meaning, (a continuous nothingness - a fall from the more enlightened higher state of mind towards the dark and hidden aspects of the soul) moves the "I" to reconstruct, and re-identify with the distant past that seems logical and systematic. The yearning to understand, the process of becoming like a climb up a mountain of existential certainty, towards the peak of enlightenment. Awareness for a life that transcends the nihilism of modernity for a purpose that defines the identity of the "I" beyond the nothingness of the moment.

The radical rejection of the life defined by the modern "system" for a more creative and meaningful life beyond the confines of the restrictive norm. The unknowable "All-of-society" so complex and irreducible to any given explanation of the rational mind, moves towards the impending chaos... the self questions the objectiveness of this predicament. Lost in the multitude of the subjective, the only truth to be found... where?


Saturday, May 19, 2012

Lost writing

The happenstance experience...
how beautifully mystifying it is.
the unfortunate - the loss of a "post"
the description and voice
that represents
the unity of the endeavour
conjunction of beings
as the layers of the All
unfold
as the soul of the believer
openness
"to the other"

transcending
time and space
the intimate dialog
of cultural unification
the unspoken spoken
"awareness"

-I am yours

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Stint of a trip to SF - a reasearch project (a forward)

the self realizes its place in the All that cannot be fathomed. The will-to-understand and the will-to-be unified in its objective to understand the essence of the present "self." The complexity of sorts, becomes, to a degree, game theory applied on the variable that seem to be consistent with the identification of the self to the All of the "system". Who am I, becomes an eternal process to bring about objective harmony, while the subjectivity remains in a place of rooted stability. The dilemmas of the desires, must be curbed, first and foremost, while the will must put into effect the viability of the "new" system to take hold from a unified "center" of action -  that is "the Good" of the Platonic telos - for the motion of the All (not just a particular subjectivity to prosper). Being... is it not a process of wonder, as the self finds itself as a believer of restrained-magnanimity and virtue.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

the self's encounter with time

Where does one place the truth of time? Is the continuous flow a part of the objective world of nature, or does it belong to the logic and a priori understanding of the conscious subject. The existence "in" the world, and the motions of matter, creates the domain we experience as phenomena. The share in the All and the world-soul... are we not subjectively percieving the moment from one perspective?

The self draws back into a place of no time - a meeting place for the beings willing to journey beyond the cave of darkness. At once we see the thinkers contemplating the truth to "this" eternity that transcends both space and time.

The self cannot distinguish at times whether the experience and perceptions are a manifestation - "a phenomena" - created by the subjective mind, or whether the objective nature exists as a continuum beyond the self. This is not a negation of the existence of the world... it is a questioning of how and what logical association the subjectivity of the self has with the cosmic narrative as a whole. This questioning includes questioning perception itself.

The non linear-ality of the flow of time, and our "personal" views on the interpretation of consciousness in relation to existence.

The self is not the All, but only a minute glimpse, a drop of water in the sea of the eternality of process. From this place, interpretation of phenomena and the coming to "know" in an intuitive way the pure moment of the nakedness of nature... "truth?"

Who am I?
Isolation, a natural outcome of the dis-enchanted modern world. The self realizes that it has, to a degree, assimilated the self nature of previous worlds. Is this not the post-modern process? The merging of and seeing the world from a premodern perspective - the making of a new system, a change in the relationship of "identity". Consciousness does not live in only "one" system of beliefs, but can learn the how of the intuitive process of "coming to be" - a being that is both of the past and future of existence.

It is a, reverting back, to the unity of its essential nature. "Existential meaning" and "post-modern meaning" becomes a reconstruction of the premodern world with the variables of a disunified and "in the dark" modern system that is falling short of its ideals.

The self sits and stills the mind, allowing itself to reconnect to the divine, "emanating" source - a meditation on its own essential nature in a non-a posteriori direction towards truth. 

Being emerges not as a will-to-power but as a will-to-contemplate - a process of opening itself to the possibility of coming to feel the presence of the eternal thou. Time no longer is a logical measure of duration, but a necessary part of the experience of phenomena. From one interpretive lens to the next, consciousness realizes the diversity of views appearing on the back drop - the space of the eternity of the All.

"Identity" becomes something that has transcended time in its functionality. Yet, the question remains what is "essence"? The light of the inner self burns to understand...

"Truth"
Truth becomes the destination for the self that is in the process of identifying with the essence. In this way, "truth" and "essence"  is intimately linked through the will-to-be. Being re-emerges out of the confines of time as the clarity of the moment takes hold.

But is this process leading to Essence and Truth? The ever expansive diversity, unified by the mind that contemplates its place in the cosmic whole. The All emerges and the order of existence makes itself known to the self, in thought. From this perspective, the unity of the All manifests itself in the mind as truth of a thinker contemplating the question of identity and existence.

Existence becomes both a practical skill and an artistic/aesthetic expression of the coming-to-"know" one's own being in its most intimate moments.


Monday, May 7, 2012

reflections on the weekend in SF

A whirl-wind of a journey, as the self encounters the multiplicity of worlds, a unified diversity. At times as a transcendent intellect living as a being devoid of its corporeal features, at other times life-living as a will-to-identity. The seduction of a city  that lives and breaths the air of its multitudes of phenomenal environments. The sensibility of the self, learns to assimilate the values of an individual beyond the foreign-ness of the situation. The coming to "know", an intimate process of unity with the city of light and darkness.

We encounter the All - "the oneness of the universe" - from the subjectivity of personal experience. The moment when the totality of existence is comprehended, however impartial, by our conscious minds, we sense a wonder and an awareness that transcends language. Yet, philosophy and the art of expression tries in its earnestness to express in language, the experience of life-living as a being in pure thought of the meaning of existence in the universe, the one uni-verse that envelops us all.

The separation between animate and inanimate, living-souls and material objects, consciousness and the empirical world, provides us with the frame work for the mind's ability to understand our very own "nature". We exist in the different domains of space, as extension in the material world, and as thought/consciousness in the world of the Mind... like an eternal river flowing through time... "Time" is the medium, the eternal continuum that the will and life-living takes center stage, as the moment of awareness becomes an unification of subjective thought with the workings of the natural world.

The mysterious comes to the fore of conscious thought, as the stillness of the mind, makes the empirical world a phenomena of appearances. We learn from logical inference, that our perceptions of the world is purely "personal" without a perspective of seeing/experiencing/thinking beyond our own consciousness. It is this isolation that the artist, through the medium of philosophy has any reason to create its art work - its momentary landscape, a brushstroke of perception - so that "we" can experience the All of the world from the perspective of the mind's eye.

Our identities emerge a confluence of narratives take shape in the grand narrative of the objective All. Meaning becomes a subjective matter, as the "I" emerges out of the necessity to understand the essence behind the link between the self and the phenomena that it encounters. The self creates an identity that transcends its body, by identifying with the world of the mind and the linguistic structures to a reality of thought. Although the "I" is by necessity a body interacting in the objective and natural world, its identity is a construct of its own narrative in harmony with the narrative of the All.


Somewhere in the depth of consciousness lies the structures of the transcendent world. The "we" of the community, affirms itself in the individuality of the self. The "I" becomes a "reflection" of the essence of the community of light, giving the harmonious whole a telos beyond the darkness of the cave. The unity of the "I" with the "We", and the unity of the human community with the ideals of harmony, moves the present onward to the future of Being.

Self-nature becomes, not a question of identity, but a search into the depths of the Mind and Soul. The striving to "bring-down" or "bring-to-the-present" the transcendent character through the will... a representation of a being that has unified itself to the essence of the "we" of transcendence. Meditation becomes the medium to self contemplate its place in the hierarchy of beings, only to find itself "in" the social-world of dis unified nature. The order, yet to appear, with an awareness for self-nature to realize its isolation from... but also its unity with... the community of transcendent thought. The self spiritualizes itself to form a pure idea of the Platonic "Good" - the essence of identity.

The sense of taste, envelops the world, as the soul momentarily experiences sweetness, while realizing the wisdom of an old and distinguished "other". As the taste of "Life" moves the moment... is it not unification of the self to the Will of the All of nature. A complexity of tastes, unified into the oneness of the source. The emanation of the heavenly aroma brings the self into contact with a foreign and mysterious world. The feeling and intuition that the self is intimately interconnected to the past and future of its own being. With this, the self enters a space where discovery follows necessarily as the rhythms of the moment takes the soul into the desert night.

The self's relationship with its phenomena, at times a wonder, at other times a detachment. The diversity of the world and the forms that are contained in the All, an experience that transcends the medium of language. The creatures that we are, choosing our place in the hierarchy of beings... ascending and descending on the ladder of perfection. A contradiction of sorts, as the representation of the world and the environment that surrounds the self impresses a diversity of ideas onto the mind. The narrative of the All and the knowing of particulars, becomes a task never fully complete. The most that the self can "know" are the structures of reality and the logic behind the diversity of the particulars. Yet, "the other" that impresses its image onto the self, makes known the difference of subjectivity.

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Life in the social world necessitates the need to identify with the world-soul as a Being of authenticity. The will-to-be, finding its actions to be complex. Simplification of the self's narrative, a slowing down of the self to the rhythms of Nature. To begin again as the spring transitions into the summer days, the self learns to be.
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The natural world and the creatures of habit, occupy a space that allows for habitation in a way of survival and "existence". Society has grown and withered and with this growth and corruption, the rise and fall of culture - the diversification of forms that has dis-enchanted the world that was once a unity of sorts. No longer attached to the natural world, we have become creatures that have descended into the realm of "modernity". Souls with consciousness no longer acknowledge one another in the openness of the other, busied by the media-generated content devoid of any meaning. In the heap of diversity in a world in which unnatural creatures semi-conscious of the forms only familiar to themselves are living a life that lacks the content of Being as a mind contemplating the eternal truths about the natural world.

Aesthetics becomes a difficult word to assimilate as the authenticity of character tries to emerge in the will-to-write. In "this" world, the self in thought, constructs the structures of phenomena in a sensible way, placing the souls as a process and transition from one state to another. It is a return or re-discovery of a platonic cosmology with overtones of the an Aristotelian process. While the self learns to refine its being, to be in harmony with both the natural world and society at large, the goals and endeavours - the telos - "the light that paves the path", appears to the soul that believes in the essence of its identity.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Aristotle: the desire to understand

"epesteme" 

"to understand" the nature of one's own Being, the objective of the self in the process of the journey beyond the cave of darkness. Awareness at once lifts the soul towards an ascent into a realm where the phenomena of the environment, the sanctuary of the self, brings a serene wonder - the telos of discovering the nature of our own existence, as a being that unifies the domains of the divine and that of the mundane. The euporia or "easy passage or travel" brings to the fore of life-living in intellectual simplicity, a coming to know the rhythms of the moment. Thought, thinking itself, as the mind's eye opens to see the light of the spiritual world, as the soul of the self is enveloped and dissolves into the world-soul...

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Immanuel Kant
General Observations on Transcedental Aesthetic

[quote]:
To avoid all misapprehension, it is necessary to explai, as clearly as possible, what our view is regarding the fundamental constitution of sensible knowledge in general. 
What we have meant to say is that all our intuition is nothing but the representation of appearance; that the things which we intuit are not in themselves what we intuit them as being, nor their relations so consituted in themselves as they appear to us, and that  if the subject, or even only the subjective constitution of the senses in general, be removed, the whole consitution and all the relations of objects in space and time, nay space and time themselves, would vanish. As appearances, they cannot exist in themselves, but only in us. What objects may be in themselves, and apart from all this receptivity of our sensibility, remains completely unknown to us. We know nothing but our mode of perceiving them - a mode which is peculiar to us, and not necessarily shared in by every being, though, certainly, by every human being. With this alone have we any concern. Space and time are its pure forms, and sensation in general its matter. The former alone can we know a priori, that is, prior to all actual perception; and such knowledge is therefore called pure intuition. The latter is that in our knowledge which leads to its being called a posteriori knowledge, that is, empirical intuition. The former inhere in our sensibility with absolute necessity, no matter of what kind our sensations may be; the latter can exist in varying modes. Even if we could bring our intuition to the highest degree of clearness, we should not thereby come any nearer to the consitution of objects in themselves. We should still know only our mode of intuition, that is, our sensibility. We should, indeed, know it completely, but always under the conditions of space and time - conditions which are originally inherent in the subject. What the objects may be in themselves would never become known to us even though the most enlightened knowledge of that which is alone given to us, namely, their appearance.
The concept of sensibility and of appearance would be falsified, and our whole teaching in regard to them would be rendered empty and useless, if we were to accept the view that our entire sensibility is nothing but a confused representation of things, containing only what belongs to them in themselves, but in doing so under an aggregation of characters and partial representations that we do not consciously distinguish. For the difference between a confused and a clear representation is merely logical, and does not concern the content. No doubt the concept of 'right', in its common-sense usage, contains all that the subtlest speculation can develop out of it, though in its ordinary and practical  use we are not conscious of the manifold representations comprised in this thought. But we cannot say that the common concept is therefore sensible, containing a mere appearance. For 'right' can never be an appearance; it is a concept in the understanding, and represents a property (the moral property) of actions, which belongs to them in themselves. The representation of a body in intuition, on the other hand, contains nothing that can belong to an object in itself, but merely the appearance of something, and the mode in which we are affected by that something; and this receptivity of our faculty of knowledge is termed sensibility. Even if that appearance could become completely transparent to us, such knowledge would remain toto coelo different from knowledge of the object in itself.
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The self transcends the isolation of its own subjectivity, in the clarity of thought presented to us by Kant. The "I" exists limited to its own interpretive "sensibilities", only viewing the phenomenal appearance from its own subjectivity, not knowing "the other" in itself, except through its own interpretive lense. Yet connections are made in the aesthetics of thought, as thinker comes to know its own existence in a lucid and precise manner: "transcendence". The apprehension of the world of phenomena hangs by a thin thread - one's own conciousness of the world of appearance. But the moment of clarity described by Kant, gives the reader a sense of unity-of-the-us, of thought. The process of coming to know "the other" as a thou-of-life becomes the focal point in the life-living of the self, as a being in openness. Is this not the 'right' action in its common sense usage, a sensibitliy to come to understand the soul of the other in the space through the continuum of time?

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The clarity of Zen


"the moment"

"the choice"

"affirmation"

"life"

"satori"

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What more does one have to say?




Saturday, April 21, 2012

Berkeley revealed... "a thank you"

"Pristine"...

As the self encounters the being of "the other", the path towards the light of the world-to-come, unfolds in the present-ness of the moment. However brief, the self crosses paths with "the other", as a thou-of-life. The revelations of the world reflect upon the phenomena, as "art" manifests itself in the environment of creativity.

As the oneness of the universe envelops the individual souls, beauty appears in the many modalities, a fullness of expression. For once, a spiritual being transcending the limitations of existence for a being not as an "I" but as a "we" of the community of expressive souls. The wonders, the fireworks going off in the distant, signalling a synchronicity, makes itself known again in a more lucid manner.

Infinite wisdom and the nature of "the other" open for dialogue - the process of getting to know the All of life-living, one moment at a time. The new-ness that seems all so familiar, the encountering of Platon-ic friendships - existence of a vibrant world...

"enchanted"

as the rhythms begin to take hold of the soul of the individuals, the "music" manifests itself in the nature of the created environment - an emanation of light. The objective world becomes a meeting place where individual subjectivities learn to transcend the isolation of the mind. Spirit and identities emerge!

"Nature-ality of being", smells the aroma of the rose for the experience of grounding. The self realizes the "moment", enveloped  by the beauty of nature. A quiet "thank you", a praise to the holy of holies for making a reality known to the soul who finds "the other" on a journey of uniqueness. Majestic and vibrant, a future encounter awaits, as the spiritual domains open up with the liberality of phenomena.

The cycle of the week comes to a close, a resting place for the soul that yearns for the divine. Are we not spiritual beings having the human experience, as the new day begins? The "World-Soul" makes itself known to the "we" of the life-time of experience.

"Thank you, again" 

Thursday, April 19, 2012

dialogue

Nature and the representation to the senses (the empirical world), presents a picture of reality in its totality manifested to the self's subjectivity. This picture is like an eternal river flowing - at times rapid and chaotic, at other times peaceful and serene. As inhabitants (as creatures) with the innate ability to consciously understand and know our place in the river, view nature from the perspective of a single drop of water. The ever changing continuum appears to the conscious self as a process for growth and understanding. "I am", as the self emerges from a nothingness towards the All of life-living.

Past and future converge for a moment of awareness sacred and holy, a subtle existence as a being conscious of its ability to apprehend. The river of life, at times can be comprehended from the perspective of the self, viewing its world as a manifestation of its subjectivity (phenomena), and at other times as objective nature without the view towards any single perspective. Between these two lenses emerges the purpose and telos - the unification of these two views - to systematically and artistically represent the process in its life-living - an aesthetic practice - a choice/duty to transcend and go beyond the confines of the darkness for the light of rationality and pure identity.

The nothingness of the self parallels the isolation of the self from the world of nature as a mind and intellect living as a being beyond what phenomenal appearance can transmit. Interpretation is the becoming of the self as a being in its artistic authenticity.

The self beckons the other by asking the question of identity: "where are you"? 

The thou of life emerges - "Here I am"! 

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Coffee shop experience

The Self realizes its existence as a confluence of modes passively and actively taking shape in the mind-body nexus of the believer. The "I" is a construct of the narratives it has applied, in creating an identity that transcends mere phenomenal appearance, while the extended self represents its "image" as a will-to-authenticity. The "I" no longer exists as an existent, moving itself for a purposeless cause, but an "I" that is looking for affirmation of the world on unitive terms. Existence takes a new vantage point where the Self becomes acutely aware of both conscious-self (in thought) and the extended-self (as a body). Motion of extended "objects" signal to the mind a necessity to "act" in a normative way as the environment that dictates the ideas of the world onto the self's existence. It is no longer "I think therefore I am," but "I am therefore I think." The dualism of the past, is unified in the present as the moment takes hold. What becomes "truth" is the identity of the self in the present-ness of the moment, viewing the phenomenal with an eye towards "dialogue."

Thursday, April 12, 2012

time, aesthetics and life-living

Nature offers the self an outlet to express itself as authentic being, an endeavour to-survive and to-be in a creative way that goes beyond mere functionality. It is the process of the will-to-survive and will-to-be represented in the infinite modes of aesthetic-life-expression, an identity within the confines of time and its eternality. The aesthetic life takes root in living authentically "in time". From this perspective, the self no longer has idle time to swim in its own imagination as a being devoid of practical purpose. Meditation no longer becomes a day-dream, but a practice to fulfill the eternal moment with intent of expressing its ideality onto the course of its own life in the present-ness of the moment. The self emerges out of the darkness of its own slumbers. The conquest of time!

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Identity!

How do we begin to express in language our experience of Being. The obliteration of all boundaries of self with nature in which we are left in total awe of existing – a process of self actualization in its most pristine state unworthy of a mortal’s “words.” We are left to ponder and contemplate the unfathomable experience of consciousness on such a subtle beatific vision, where everything infinite makes sense in perfect harmony while in unison with pure confusion of what any and all of Being and existing truly entails. Let me begin by stating: “Life is Beautiful!”


Art is an expression of the different modes of being in the infinite particularities of finite beings in a futile attempt to transcend the experience of autonomy in one’s own realization of self-isolation. The artist reveals his art as pure expression for an abstract telos, where to interpret and appreciate the art is to redeem the essence of the artist in his being-extended in the form of creation. Art abstractly defined then, is all expression in the form of appreciating and communicating the experience of existing and the radical departure and rejection of dualism for an immanent appreciation of being-“in”-the world expressed and interpreted. Dualism characterized as a separation of the domain of the transcendent intellect-soul and the material-physical-phenomenal, and the production of art to unite the two with the medium at hand.


Beauty and our aesthetic taste for subjective particularism must come to terms with the task of finding a standard beyond some hypothetical abstraction such as “the” beautiful in the realm of transcendent form. To fully appreciate beauty in all of its infinite expressions in nature, interpretation of the “is-ness” of experience is crucial. To create boundaries or parameters on “what is beautiful” and “what is not” without close scrutiny of ones inherited tradition of aesthetic categories then is counter intuitive of being able to experience “life-being” as it truly manifest itself. Yet, one can argue even in our liberation of judging with subjective standards and categories of aesthetics, we are still left to reconstruct and develop our own appreciation of beauty. Can anyone, even a nihilist, dare to argue that the angelic are more beautiful than the beasts, or that the philosophers are in someway more pleasing than the politicians? It is as if there is some intuitive realization that a (thirteen-petal) rose in its eternal becoming is pleasing to the soul of the mystic than a field of weeds in its chaos. To create then, a subjective standard based on qualitative-aesthetic judgment, to refine oneself towards the “aristocratic” cannot be rejected, for rejection is to blindly appreciate the perverse standards of oligarchic and tyrannical. [Even these subjective standards of beauty can be argued against for the alternative view that everything is beautiful in its own way no matter how we judge from our own aesthetic taste.]


Contemplation or pure thought, when expressed in the form of language, to paint the picture one comes to be represented in the mind must come to terms with the process of actualizing the vision. Before we will the representation of thought’s vision, the internal dilemma arises – for what purpose is any and all of expression/art? Why extend myself at all? Have I not, through toil earned the freedom and right to my own existence? To offer my words to the most wise and distinguished as if to not realize my youthfulness is to transcend boundaries too daring even for my own standards, while to offer my words as some prescription as if I were already a distinguished physician of the soul is to glory in an arrogant delusion. To extend my thoughts for my own sake, although novel, seems to be an effort not worth embarking on. Can I not exist trying to fully actualize my full potentialities by learning to refine my portrait as an idealization in contemplating my eternal becoming? The infinitesimal task of appreciating the other as a manifestation of nature, to appreciate the “thou” of life can be best, in my own judgment be best accomplished in passivity and being a student of the moment at hand. But the impulse for the artist to shed all vestiges of corporeality, to undress himself and recreate the finer moments of his process to actualize his freedom beyond all costumes that may identify his own being as something “this worldly” is then a process worth embarking on beyond any simplistic explanation. To show himself in pure expression, absorbed in the moment, as if to say “here I am” knocking at the gates to the kingdom of thought, I believe is worthy beyond any need of explanation.


The artist creates “out-of nothing” from the void and chaos that exists in himself, a representation of the world that he comes to behold. Of course, out-of nothing is also symbolic of his own existence from nothing that has culminated in something not definable as chaos or a perfect systematization of anything “specific.” Why should the Monarchy of Beauty be defined and categorized as something distinctly definable by the inherited categories of human language? Is it not an imaginable possibility for the soul of the artist to transcend all boundaries of existence as if to leave behind even his own citizenship in the simplistic “given” political order that modernity has produced for a more aesthetically pleasing existence as a “created being” in the truth of the revealed world? With this self-refined view of the artist’s ideal place in the world comes the realization of a responsibility to uphold imperatives to the transcendent standards (abstractions they maybe) that have come to be embodied in the artist’s soul, the ought to the true, the good and the beautiful – “The lover of love!”

Friday, March 23, 2012

spectrum of modes: "will-to-be","will-to-survive" and "life-living"

As the self reflects on the past narratives of its own life in the present moment, the process of change can be seen as taking place incrementally. Is it not apparent that the future is taking hold of the present?

The self can create in its being, the diversity of modes that it can Will dependent on the characteristics of its phenomena (i.e. the enviornment that molds the self in the present). Life is found between the spectrum of "will-to-be" and the "will-to-survive". The "will-to-be" is described inwardly as philosophical reflection as a meditation to bring the ideal self, the telos as an authentic character, onto the phenomenal appearance as projection. Outwardly, the "will-to-be" observes the phenomena without motion, as it reveals itself as a being viewing the particularities in the multiplicity of life existing as individual expression of its individual will in the totality of the encompassing All. This is only one mode on one end of the spectrum that can be contrasted with the mode of "will-to-survive". This contrasting mode is a pure will that makes itself known as a being striving to survive in the continuum of life-nature. The self in this mode has little to no room for philosophical reflection, and can be described as the is-ness of its being reflected in the actions of preforming the task at hand for survival. Both modes are expressed during the rhythmic cycle we call "day".

What persists through this spectrum of change is the expression of the artist represented as "life-living" in authenticity!

wonder

To be aware of the extended world while remaining in a state of meditation about the self's relation to the world makes the phenomenal experience one of wonder. The self begins again to rediscover itself hidden in the depth of its own soul. It looks upon the world of phenomena with curiosity. This curiosity brings to the fore of life-living, an inner expression of authenticity - as the self reflects on the world through the gaze of philosophical perspective. The All encompasses everything except the freedom of its own will and consciousness to be. As the world of the mind separates itself from the extended world, thought sees itself clearly as an artist expressing its world-life-view. This is the beginning of the present-ness of experience through its own meditation.

We are by nature confined in the dual worlds of the mind and body. What unifies the two in the present is the will to express itself in the form of authentic being. Consciousness manifests itself as the extended body and its world of thought unifying itself in the grand narrative we call life-nature. How the self experiences the world is like a single drop of water flowing in the stream of life. To see momentarily the river as it is and to realize that through extension the self has a specific place in this process is to come face to face with the All. In a momentary epiphany it sees its own creaturely-ness in nature as it contemplates its will to be. The is-ness of the moment reveals the artistic will expressing its wonder.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Freedom and Autonomy

To make oneself an artistic being in the world of phenomena, the self must create imperatives that dictate its own actions represented by the Will. To express the self's freedom to act in accordance to its own will is to have autonomy. Freedom and autonomy does not necessarily mean that it has limitless options in the world. The artistic being ought to create its own categories in which it must abide by in order to express its freedom in the phenomenal world. The Self knows its moral nature and its ability to abide by laws that are apparent through its sensation, but beyond this self-knowing lies other laws that have been created by the mind in order to make the self more free. It is to will the mind's world (a projection of the ideal Self) onto the extended self that relates its being to the objects and other particulars of the natural world. The Self, must identify with the minds own aesthetic categories and make it a reality in the world of its phenomena. How else can the artistic and authentic self come to be expressed in the extended world? This "will" must bring its own world-life-view into the world of phenomena through its expression in philosophic language. The self as artist.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Purpose - an age old question (previous post)

The unknown world of other "selves" and the peculiarity of their subjective consciousness, is of concern to the "I" of the Self, who struggles to understand what it means to live in the current narrative of existence. Changes to the web of societal existence is so rapid that the "I" dwindles to the size of an ant mindlessly carrying on its own function for the good of the survival of the species. However displaced, our existence and our conscious experience has some meaning at least to our own subjective perspectives. We exist not aimlessly in the dark for a new darkness of the next generation, but we exist as beings created for a purpose. It is this "purpose" or telos that drives us consciously or subconsciously to move ourselves for the light of something more.


What is more to the Self can or cannot be the same as the other selves that exist. With this division in purpose comes a great divide in the narratives of our lives. Yet, the narratives converge on a spiritual level to create what may be a "objectivity" of existence. This hypothetical objectivity is quickly dissolved into narratives of  illusion of the current social system. When the bubble burst and the individual "I's" are left to there demise to find the narrative that suits them best, all is left for the Self to pray to a harmonious story of the objective world. It is nothing more than goodness, and simple existence of contentment for the ability to be alive.


How is it that the Self's subjective experiences are congruent with the realm of other subjective beings? Do we not live in our separate worlds blinded by our own world-life-view, without a clue to the existence of the other?  The existence of an "I" so confidently stated in the mind of the Self, is nothing more than a scared-squeak as an existent in the phenomenal realm. How to "bridge" the gap between existence in the noumenal world while conscious of our existence in the material world is the philosophical task of contemplating truth.


The Self is nothing more than a construction of itself, looking to understand how the "I" relate to "others" to create a narrative of how and why we exist. It is a process to find meaning - an age old question.

the bridge between worlds

Is creation of the world an experience that transcends logic?
At once the soul is uplifted into the noumenal world, where phenomena becomes a process-reality for the believer. Isolation is momentarily transcended for a world that seems to point to redemption. However, the Self is by natural law, apart of the extended world as a being with multiple modes. Dependent on the narrative one takes, fruitful realities appear in the day light of lived-life. How else are we to find a bridge between the nouminal world and that of the phenomenal - is it not dialogue?


Darkness looms when one re-enters the phenomenal world without the basis of the ideal world. Chaos of the mind, narratives of delusions, clouds the path to awakened self-authenticity. It becomes the imperative of the will to unify what is divine in the soul with that of the self that is apart of the extended world of materiality. Being, encounters the created world of the Mind as a momentary we.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Upon meeting

The truth is hard to come by, due to the nature of trust and similarity. How much has been revealed to me in the art of "thought"? I am a dualist in the present, due to the radical nature of the separation between the what is of the material phenomenal world and that represented in the Mind of the believer. It is "light" subsumed by darkness and despair in the night of the world of extension.


Can there not be a path towards a reunion of the formal ideal world and that of the present? Who am I, but an inquisitive soul experiencing the phenomenal with pure subjectivity with multiple modes of being. Self-authenticity becomes the process of the will to power. Is it not the purpose of the self "to move" itself (i.e. to Will itself) to self-authentic Being?

What is Being?

The fuzzy boarders that comes with the youth of the journey, makes the identity of the Self to be an unknown of the future. For on the one hand there exists a majestic life full of meticulous calculations and an imperative to always 'Be', and on the other hand a slave like morality in the material phenomenal world full of simple darkness. How to make the world of "thought" immanent in this world becomes the journey of the Self, willing itself to "Being." Yet, I have not explained what "Being" is... Is it not creation of everything, the coming to know the All in perfect rhythm with the beauty of lived life.


This process makes the self look upon the aesthetics of life to improve upon the Will to live more virtuously in pure wisdom of the traditions of "philosophy."


Is this not the Process to being?

Eternal Process

I don't know when the self can return. The Self  on a eternal journey home to a place beyond what revelation and the material phenomenal world can say in the present. The Will held down by the darkness of the cave... is it not an eternal process to make it back to the divine - that is our original self in light. Light emerges in the world as the soul is uplifted into a realm unknown. Only the future will tell... the truth to the Self's ever present choice.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

(past post)

How do we begin to express in language our experience of Being. The obliteration of all boundaries of self with nature in which we are left in total awe of existing – a process of self actualization in its most pristine state unworthy of a mortal’s “words.” We are left to ponder and contemplate the unfathomable experience of consciousness on such a subtle beatific vision, where everything infinite makes sense in perfect harmony while in unison with pure confusion of what any and all of Being and existing truly entails.

Art is an expression of the different modes of being in the infinite particularities of finite beings in a futile attempt to transcend the experience of autonomy in one’s own realization of self-isolation. The artist reveals his art as pure expression for an abstract telos, where to interpret and appreciate the art is to redeem the essence of the artist in his being-extended in the form of creation. Art abstractly defined then, is all expression in the form of appreciating and communicating the experience of existing...

Monday, March 5, 2012

past, present and future

Past memories, illusive to the present, helps construct the narrative of the self traversing through the river of life. To enjoy the company of the other, or the journey through foreign lands, it is a process of growth beginning with the Will-to-persist and the experience of both the world of the mind and the world of extention. The unknown future coming ever so close, a change taking place in the soul of the philosopher.

The place we meet - where is "here"

I begin again - a description of how philosophy begins. A process of self-realization where thought goes beyond the material-phenomenal world. We emerge by identifying with the pure subjectivity of perception, reaching out to those who can say "I" in the world of ideas. It is the affirmation of existence that frees the self from the confines of the world of appearance to a world beyond. It is here that the self builds a place that only a few can enter.


Can you not see how fine the life of the mind can be, surrounded by the wonder of existence itself?


The written words describe the self's unique existence that can only be perceived by reading between the lines. A soul appears, having nothing but his own subjectivity and a Will-to-Being. We take the existential leap towards a place beyond what the senses can perceive, to an eternal present only experienced by the soul that meditates on the words of self-revelation. It is "this" moment that one can see the reflection of the self in the other who has the power of awareness to say "we exist."

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Movement from idle time

Beyond past idealistic delusions, to a place of simplicity of no direction, the Self begins its motion again from its idle past, towards a future not yet defined by its own system. Time brings cyclical patterns to the fore of lived life, where "existence" is nothing more than a mode of being constantly in a struggle to find its own identity in the present.


Have I not found "the truth" beyond what the phenomenal can present to the eyes of the "other"? Non existence, full of idle time, looking through the lens of soul-ful future. Am I not "here", constructing my world-life-view, a subjective experience of one's journey through the travails of the constant process expressed in the motion of life. Choices emerge and a colorful Self appears free from the confines of the material towards the eternity of the moment of lived-life in the present sentence.


It is a new unrestricted "present" that is being created by the philosophical endeavours of the mind to transcend the limitations of the past towards a Will-to-identity that has sustenance that no one can see. It is idealism of the Self that comes alive, ever so lively to find the "other" who questions its own isolation and subjectivity. It is our existential choice to live life to the fullest... is this not "motion"?

What is motion?

An eternal movement from a beginning to an endless end...


to see how my identity continuously moves towards a something, undefinable as the tomorrow that exists. We are what we are by nature of fixed laws that makes us who we are - our determinate selves. No matter what the end, we continuously strive towards the asymptotic line, of lived life in this world of material-phenomenal appearance. To move beyond the eternity of the moment towards the next, more identifiable future.


The goal of continuously living the moment of existence content of the material plenitude of simplicity. To be at one with the goal towards the Will to identify with the Self that has not emerged from jaws of the present.


We continuously strive to recreate ourselves to be a Self with a "Will-to-identity", a place in which the "formal" self appears to the phenomenal experience of "the other".


The emergence of philosophy begins with an unquenchable goal of understanding the Self in relation to the motion of the world that appears to the senses. (How does the Self identify with what exists outside of itself?) To relate to the world of appearance, the material-phenomenal world, from the stand point of the Self, is to understand what relation there is between philosophy as world-life-view and everything else.


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We emerge to "the other" through the medium of the pen that writes the words of truth - existence as isolation. To hear the music of life pass by the eyes of the believer in a world beyond what the sense can see... "Here... I exist."


Does not philosophy exist for the purpose of recreating the revelatory experience of life in pure wonder? A message from a distant soul to another as simple as understanding the present reflection of the moment of truth.


The Self reaches out in the written language to identify with a life that is lived beyond the world of phenomenal appearance towards a world of the mind. Is it here that all communication takes place and where philosophy begins in "identity". Who am I, but a soul that lives in the duality of lived life. The space of the phenomenal world and that of the Mind or intellect. It is complete in itself. However, motion dictates the need for the Self to survive in the material-phenomenal world. The Self, must Will itself to being sufficient beyond the present circumstance. Are we not here to recollect and discuss the world of philosophy, beyond what others can perceive. In motion, we question the very nature of the distinction  between realism and idealism - towards understanding the subjectivity of one's own consciousness. The elusiveness of objectivity... consumed in its own self experience of questioning the "other".


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Who am I? Am I not a Self, distinct in the world, beyond what the "other" perceives. What makes my identity real, in this world of appearance? Is it not "character" that we are looking for? an existential truth to the lived-life of choices?


I am like a drop of water in the river of life... constantly in motion, eternally waiting for the moment of truth, where lived philosophy meets the "other" who reflects the flow of time. Are you in motion beyond the phenomenal towards the truth that is "this world"?


Philosophical reflections on motion...