[MD] Conduits of Value

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Hi Ham,
I have been mulling over your Essentialism, to try to create some kind of
metaphor or analogy which would help me comprehend it in an intellectual
way.  I believe I have an awareness of what you are proposing, but getting
that into words is not easy, as you know.  The easiest way for me to further
develop the awareness is to create a picture of such a thing.  This then
allows further manipulation of the concept.  I am presenting this in the MOQ
forum since I believe it is relevant.

I have the following picture to present you.  Please keep in mind, that it
is vague at best, just a beginning.  Also, try not to dismiss it outright
without trying to see where I am trying to go.  It would seem to me that we
have a negation of absolute essence which presents as differentiation.  The
value of this differentiation is then realized by reversing such negation
through an object outside of our personal awareness.  That is outside the
body, for now.  But it can go deeper than that.  So we have a negation and
then double negation to use your terminology.

One way to view this is as "Absolute Essence connecting to itself".  For
whatever reason, we are the conduit for such a connection.  That is that
"other" is connected back to Absolute Essence through us.  Such connection
is through our sensibilities.  Now this may seem kind of weird the the
absolute would need to connect with itself.  One could also see it as the
absolute seeing itself.  So, let's take a super simple example, of such a
connection.  We have absolute essence separated from itself like to poles on
an electrical circuit.  So Essence on one side, and Essence on the other.
 We can call one side internal to us, and the other external (just for the
analogy).  When we realize the value of the external object, we connect it
to the internal.  There is a flow of sensibility which we realize by forming
the connection.  In that sense, we are a wire, and the flow of Essence to
Essence is what we feel.  We realize a cake through our senses of sight,
smell, taste, and touch.  We connect the essence of cake to Absolute
essence.  Both sides are Absolute, and we are the wire in between.

This would encompass the negation and double negation aspect.  Another
permutation of the analogy would be to envision two chambers (both of which
are Essence).  Through Realization, we connect the two chambers through a
tube, and sense the Value flowing between.  Now there are many possible
analogies for what this tube or wire is, one could be time itself.

So, Ham, let me know if this makes any sense at all.  I am happy to provide
more insight if I can.

Cheers,
Mark