nihilum plenum
There is a hole in reality
I am the hole
I can see the world and my body
I cannot see my face
I am the hole in the middle
Am I space?
white hole
eating events
sucking up time
I am the Space where things take place
I am nothing but I Am, diaphanous,
I stay, allow
whatever wants to enter
and play
time tells how
time is my tool
time is my pointer, my reading-ray
I gaze and possibilities coagulate
and crystallize into reality-display
I the seer and the seen
I am the total screen
allowing everything:
becoming, revelation,
error and decay
infinitely hospitable mirror
just being
being nothing
how can I stay clean?
how can I stay?
The Science of Consciousness Conference, Interlaken 2019
Consciousness is a first person reality.
It can only be investigated by “subjective research”:
We can introspectively distinguish between different levels of operative or
ordinary mind and Background Consciousness (or Basic Consciousness).
• Ordinary mind is what perceives, thinks, feels, dreams, shapes our world, makes us act;
• Basic Consciousness or Pure Presence is where it all arrives and is observed to arrive – Basic Conciousness cannot be observed: it is THAT which ultimately observes, an open non-dual background.
• It is not a thing, it is cognizant SPACE. Trained meditators / mental investigators can become aware of it.
Introspection is an activity based on method like science or artistic practice: not everybody is equally capable. But it can be trained.
Logics and Topology of the inner world are different.
Subjective experience exists only in the Present.
There is nothing but experience.
Experience happens in the present.
The objective world is part of the subjective world.
The double nature of consciousness.
I can observe myself.
In the realm of consciousness circularity is not vicious: it is not tautological nor creating short circuit. It is inherent: I see and I am aware that I see. Full Consciousness (consciousness comprising all levels) is intrinsically reflexive. It is „double“: it recognizes and recognizes THAT it recognizes.
This presupposes a dimension of mental space or DEPTH.
I AM (aware) THAT I AM
The objective world seems solid, located and limited.
The subjective world is fluid.
It has no fixed location or natural borders. Buddhists call this fluidity and openness „emptiness“ (a misleading term).
Every solid in the universe is ready to become fluid on the approach of the mind, and the power to flux it is the measure of the mind. If the wall remains adamant, it accuses the want of thought. To a subtle force it will stream into new forms, expressive of the character of the mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays.
Dorothea Franck 