* * * PREAMBLE: —While reality as the transforming relational continuum (the Wave-field aka the Tao) or simply TRANSFORMATION, is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL, Nietzsche points our that our WESTERN CULTURE habit is to employ the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING-and-GRAMMAR to inject into the psyche the EFFABLE notion of LOCAL SOURCING of actions and development.  Thus, for example, TRANSFORMATION experienced pre-lingually as NONLOCAL resonance (‘DUNING’) is reduced by NAMING to the LOCAL ‘DUNE’ which is psychologically abstracted from FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE into FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO and animated with GRAMMAR; e.g.. ‘the DUNE’ is growing higher and longer and is shifting across the “Desert floor”.  It is one thing to use this DOUBLE ERROR abstraction as a tool of INFERENCE to jog the intuition into reviving an experience of inclusion in TRANSFORMATION (as is the understanding in the EAST), … and quite another (as in the WEST) to take this DOUBLE ERROR abstraction LITERALLY and in the process, construct a pseudo-reality that is innately ambiguous and which cultivates a ‘BIPOLAR DISORDER’ that has become the defining ‘trademark’ of WESTERN CULTURE.  That is, when FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO and the dynamic of nature is no longer understood as TRANSFORMATION (wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE), is it then the FIGURE that sources change in the GROUND or is it the GROUND that sources change in the FIGURE? (does the movement of the flag source movement or the air or does the movement of the air source movement of the flag?).

WESTERN CULTURE IS INFECTED by BIPOLAR DISORDER arising from this DOUBLE ERROR based ambiguity, the invention of NAMING and GRAMMAR that construes FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO; i.e. as INHABITANT and HABITAT when understood by way of the EITHER-OR logic of the EXCLUDED medium.  The EAST, supported by modern physics, understands FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-ONE as in a holographic Wave-field reality wherein the ‘quantum’ BOTH/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium prevails and where we, as INHABITANTS are not separate from the HABITAT but relational features within it as with the boil in the flow.

BIPOLAR DISORDER in WESTERN CULTURE comes with the DOUBLE ERROR based splitting of TRANSFORMATION into the binary opposites of PRODUCTION and CONSUMPTION.  Once ‘PRODUCTION’ is ‘broken out’ as an abstract ‘action-in-itself’, and since we attach value to PRODUCTION as if it ‘were real’ (as implied by the DOUBLE ERROR), we blind ourselves to the ‘real’ reality of TRANSFORMATION aka the Wave-field aka ‘the Tao’.   By substituting the one-sided abstraction of PRODUCTION as a pseudo-real substritute for TRANSFORMATION, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS REWARD, CELEBRATE and give STATUS and ACCLAIM to ‘SUPERIOR PRODUCERS’, a BIPOLAR DISORDER infusing dysfunction when it draws attention away from the REALITY of TRANSFORMATION.   That is, the GROWTH of PRODUCTION involving at the same time, the SHRINKING of Wilderness, the overall REALITY being TRANSFORMATION.

“What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blotted by talking wires? Where will the thicket be? Gone! Where will the eagle be? Gone! And what is it to say goodbye to the swift pony and the hunt? The end of living and the beginning of survival” — Chief Seattle

At issue is NOT simply the abstract binary choice between the GROWTH of PRODUCTION and the LOSS of Wilderness, but the WESTERN CULTURE cognitive BIPOLAR DISORDER wherein the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR serves up abstract intellectual reduction that SUBSTITUTES for the sensory-experience reality of all-including TRANSFORMATION aka the Wave-field aka ‘the Tao’.

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This note re-explores how “EAST-is-EAST-and-WEST-is-WEST-and-never-the-twain-shall-meet”

EAST (and modern physics) is EAST! ….  and, …  WEST (and classical physics) is WEST, ….  and never the twain shall meet.

Because the EITHER/OR logic of the WEST is ‘smaller’ than the BOTH/AND logic of the EAST, while the EAST can understand the WEST, the WEST cannot understand the EAST.

The WEST traps itself in the belief that FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-TWO, a concept that brews up ambiguity and bipolar disorder, while the EAST accepts that FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE which fails to incubate such ambiguity and bipolar disorder.

The WEST leans on NAMING and GRAMMAR based propositions that deliver EXPLICIT constructions, which is a CRAZY-MAKER (because we are included in a transforming relational continuum).  Belief in EXPLICIT local sourcing gives rise to EGO-based “lock-in by high switching costs”.

The EAST understands language and grammar as a Wittgenstein ladder or tool of inference that is only good for cultivating an intuitive leap to the IMPLICIT reality (the transforming relational continuum) that lies innately beyond capture in EXPLICIT language terms.

(EXPLICIT: – fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning)

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Jill Astbury’s book titled “Crazy-For-You: The Making of Women’s Madness” points, implicitly, to BIPOLAR DISORDER /SCHIZOPHRENIA that is built into the intellectual foundations of WESTERN CULTURE.

That is; WESTERN CULTURE is A BIPOLAR-DISORDER-LADEN CULTURE but since it is the NORMAL base-case for us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, we cannot see the DISORDER because this BIPOLAR DISORDER is the NORMALITY “we are coming from”.  That is, the conservative-liberal psycho-political split IS BIPOLAR DISORDER on a culture-wide scale and we live with it and accept it as NORMAL.

Astbury’s suggestion that Women ‘take the hit’ within the BIPOLAR-DISORDERED WESTERN CULTURE can be expanded to ‘the sensitive miner’s canaries’ ‘take the hit’.

SO WHAT IS THE “HIT”?

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