[MD] Chaos

[Ham Priday]

Hi SA --


> "...such a notion makes the creation of
> subjective consciousness totally dependent on an
> objective reality."  I'm particularly looking at this
> statement, which further on in this post didn't really
> jump out at me, until I read this as follows:
>
>      [Ham]
> The antithesis of physical reality is no reality
> -- nothingness -- which is what pure awareness is
> without its object.
>
> So, why Ham, are you denying what you wrote in
> the statement above, when you say this here.  What is
> reality?  Are you saying reality is nothingness and
> 'physical reality', which I quote the latter ...you deny
> "...subjective consciousness totally DEPENDENT upon
> objective reality."  but then you state nothingness is
> awareness, which you need awareness in your thesis.
>
> please clarify.

To answer your first question, objective reality -- that is, the appearance
of things occurring in time and space -- is an illusionary construct of the
intellect on sensing the Value of Essence.  The "subjectivity" of
consciousness (commonly called "self-awareness) is what would theoretically
remain if the objects disappeared.  Empirically it is a "negate" -- a
non-entity -- i.e., nothingness.  Epistemologically, however, it is the
proprietary sense of value.

I did not say that reality is nothingness.  I said existential
(experiential) reality is a dichotomy consisting of (subjective) awareness
and (objective) otherness.  They are co-dependent contingencies in that one
cannot exist without the other.  Awareness seeks the value of otherness
which becomes its "content" and is intellectualized as "being".  But the
reality of experience is a relational illusion.  The true reality is the
absolute Source of this dichotomy.

To create the dichotomy, Essence negates, or denies, Nothingness.  This
separates self-awareness from Essence and creates the appearance of
otherness as the desired object of awareness.  But in becoming aware, we
acquire the value of Essence and intellectualize the object.  Hence, the
ultimate relation is the perceived value of relational being to Absolute
Essence.

Now go back and enjoy the snow fallin' and the birds eatin'.

Happy Holidays,
Ham