When does an ILLUSION become a DELUSION? … ANSWER: When we employ it as our operative reality.

Nietzsche’s example the “DOUBLE ERROR” of ‘LIGHTNING FLASHES’ and Nishitani’s example of ‘FIRE BURNS’ illustrate how we can use language and grammar to construct representations that ‘BREAK INTO’ the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL dynamics of Wave-field reality (aka ‘the Tao’, aka ‘the transforming relational continuum’).

As David Bohm points out, our sensory experience is of inclusion in THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM (the Wave-field) which is an experience that language can only imply but CANNOT EXPLICITLY CAPTURE since the Wave-field is in flux everywhere-at-the-same-time.

That is, the Wave-field  “IS” TRANSFORMATION which is purely RELATIONAL so  in order to use the reductive tool of language to even approximately capture TRANSFORMATION, we employ language in a REDUCTIVE, DOUBLE ERROR mode,  using notional NAMING-instantiated things-in-themselves with GRAMMAR-instantiated powers of SOURCING actions and developments.  This DOUBLE ERROR mode of language captures EFFABLE-because-LOCAL representations of the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL dynamic of TRANSFORMATION.

For example, ’DUNING’ is a resonance phenomenon which is NONLOCAL which our INTELLECT can reduce to LOCAL geometric forms that we call DUNES, opening the way to our INVERTING of the dynamics of REALITY with language and grammar, imputing LOCAL BEING with the word “DUNE” and notionally endowing this intellectually-fabricated abstraction with “ITS” OWN POWERS of movement and development as in the language and grammar construct; ‘The DUNE is growing higher and longer and is shifting towards the ocean’.  This is the DOUBLE ERROR in action; i.e. in its intellectual-representation-conditioning action.

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