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FORWARD:  This commentary addresses that which is impossible to ‘admit to’ by the custodians of Western culture, because Western culture adherents are supporting an INVENTED REALITY that is so far from the reality of our actual sensual experience that it would be a huge ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ exposure to overtly ‘burst the bubble’.

Western culture is in a situation akin to Pinocchio.  It’s nose has already grown so large that it has become an embarrassment to everyone one of us who daily pretends as if it is just a ‘normal’ nose’.

In terms of the figure-and-ground of Gestalt psychology, our psyche’s are ‘split’ by the dichotomous issue of whether ‘the moving figure’ is the source of the ‘movement of the ground’ (does the flapping flag source the wind) or whether the moving of the ground is the source of the movement of the figure (does the gusting wind source the flapping of the flag?).    The ‘double error’ of language and grammar is implicit here, and arises from combining the abstraction of name-instantiated things-in-themselves with the abstraction of powers of sourcing actions and development.  Experiential reality is instead, our sensory experience of inclusion in relational transformation (reality based on sorcery is the abstract double-error based artifact of language and grammar).

When we turn on the TV and/or access internet reviews of ‘where the world is at these days’, … we are tuning in to, or prepping ourselves for constructing an ‘INVENTED REALITY’ based on ‘the double error’ of language and grammar.  The popular ‘INVENTED REALITY’ that is publicized and regarded as our Western culture ‘operative reality’ is a crazy-making scam.  That is, the pictures of ‘The American Sniper’ can be ‘couched’ in language that cultivates the notion of a heroic feat, or alternatively, a mass murdering spree.  The INVENTED REALITY pivots from the abstract concept of ‘sorcery’ which is innately ambiguous in a figure/ground sense (does the man source the times or do the times source the man?, does ‘one rotten apple spoil the barrel’ or ‘does it take a whole community to raise a child?’).  Sorcery is a language and grammar based abstraction (the double error) that breeds schizophrenia.  As Nietzsche points out, we use the double error of language and grammar to impute to name-instantiated (abstract) things-in-themselves the powers of Creation;  “I am afraid we are not rid of God because we continue to believe in grammar” — Nietzsche

However, because we have built our global social dynamic on the ‘back’ of this double error based INVENTED REALITY, everything that is being pushed as ‘reality’ is a scam.  What is, ‘reality’ is the ineffable Tao.  This has not changed with the arrival of language.  What has changed is that the surrogate pseudo-reality that we have invented (the INVENTED REALITY) as a tool to ‘get by’ the ‘ineffability’ of the reality that we are ‘really’ included in, aka ‘the Tao’ that cannot be told’ (it is ineffable).  Using ‘double error’ based language and grammar as a tool that renders the ineffable Tao ‘effable’ (in a radically reduced form) allows us to construct an effable, double error based INVENTED REALITY.  This is the ‘tool’ that as Emerson has noted, has ‘run away with the workman, the human with the divine’.

We Western culture adherents have thus, thanks to the double error reduction, come up with an effable surrogate ‘pseudo-reality’.  It is today’s Western culture ‘operative reality’ or INVENTED REALITY, and it is certainly NOT the equivalent of the ineffable reality aka ‘the Tao’ (inclusion in the transforming relational continuum).   Our Pinocchio nose is grown so massive that it is unthinkable to draw attention to it.  The whole social superstructure of Western culture is built upon the façade of sorcery that gives rise to ego that serves to preserve and protect the crazy-making belief in double error based sorcery.

As R.D. Laing observes, in ‘Knots’, we are ‘locked in by high switching costs’; i.e. ‘blowing the whistle’ has the potential to bring a lot people in high places (elevated by the rewards and recognition that Western culture hands out for ‘sorcery’) crashing down, but such potential remains merely a potential so lang as the whistle-blowing remains at a low enough level to be ignored.  Naturally, individuals who blow the whistle exposure themselves to being ‘discredited’ by the stalwart supporters of the sorcery-based INVENTED REALITY;

They are playing a game.  They are playing at not playing a game.  If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.  I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.”  – R.D. Laing

Or, as Henri Laborit expresses this dilemma in his intro to ‘La Nouvelle Grille’; pioneers who try to bring in new understandings that undermine established reward and recognition standards. expose themselves to ‘getting arrows up the arse‘;

We’ who explore such topics, cannot easily share them because (a) they do not fit into the typical dinner conversation format of our present culture, since to express them takes a lot of relational connections that can’t fit into a rapid-fire repartee, and (b) because the humanism  implicit in trying to share them is not seen as “a humanism of real worth” since it undermines, besmirches or topples the esteemed icons, pillars of society, founding fathers, and celebrities of the culture-in-place.  – Henri Laborit, ‘La Nouvelle Grille’  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Laborit

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Modern physics employs ‘quantum logic’; the logic of the included medium wherein the distinction between ‘boil’ and ‘flow’ (figure and ground) is only by appearance and not by substance.

The deploying of language and grammar in such a manner (in the Western culture manner) of AMBIGUOUSLY SPLITTING into two separate entities, as in Newtonian physics; FIGURE and GROUND (e.g as also in gestalt psychology and/or inhabitant and habitat) is SCHIZOPHRENIC where we interpret this ‘two-in-one’ as ‘two separate entities’.  That is, we are splitting what is really ‘one’  in modern physics, into ‘two’.

Western culture ‘reality’ is based on ‘the double error’ (Nietzsche) which ‘over-rides’  and ignores (within the psyche if not in ‘reality’) the ineffable character of relationally transforming nature by using ‘naming’ (language)’ to (first error) impute ‘thing-in-itself being’ to ‘figure’ and conflating this (second error) with grammar by imputing the power of sourcing to the naming-instantiated (notional) thing-in-itself.  The ‘double error’  thus ‘liberates’ the ‘figure’ from the ‘ground’, opening the way to constructing an INVENTED REALITY that is ‘all-figure, no-ground’ , as in the ‘producer-product’ abstraction. 

This ‘double error’ is the basis of Western culture belief in ‘human beings’, name-instantiated notional ‘things-in-themselves’, notionally with ‘powers of sourcing actions and developments’; i.e. this is mental abstraction implanted by language and grammar, and it conflicts with the modern physics understanding of reality in the ineffable terms of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum.

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OVERVIEW of TWO VERY DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO ‘CONSTRUCTING’ AN ‘EFFABLE’ VERSION OF OUR INEFFABLE REALITY, SHOWING HOW THE ‘DOUBLE ERROR’ OPTION THAT IS IN COMMON USE IN WESTERN CULTURE IS A CRAZY-MAKER.

OPTION 1: INEFFABLE TO EFFABLE REDUCTION: THE RELATIONAL INFERENCE (modern physics, indigenous aboriginal cultures, Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta)

OPTION 2: INEFABLE TO EFFABLE REDUCTION; THE DOUBLE ERROR OPTION (the Western culture ‘standard’)

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