Author’s PREFACE:

This title; WESTERN CULTURE’s OBSESSION with VISUAL OBJECTIFICATION is intended as a pivot for getting to the core discussion on how relational TRANSFORMATION is obscured by the reduction to abstraction inherent in WESTERN language and grammar constructions.  TRANSFORMATION is the greater reality and it is BEYOND VISUAL CAPTURE as it is NONLOCAL

The attempt to capture ‘reality’ in one’s mind, NOT BY INTUITION which is innately relational, but by way of intellectual constructions that can be perceived in the mind VISUALLY, must necessarily fall short, for the same reason that, as Goedel’s theorem shows, all finite systems of logic are innately incomplete.  The EITHER/OR logic of the EXCLUDED medium which shows FIGURE-and-GROUND-as-TWO is able to LIMIT by LOCALIZING a portion of the NONLOCAL transforming relational continuum.  When applied, for example, to the relational resonances that manifest as DUNING, when we impose NAMING such as ‘the DUNE’ which reduces our VISUAL FOCUS to the NAMING-constrained visual form, giving us the sense of something LOCAL and EXPLICIT (“existing-in-its-own-right”) although if we were ever put to the test, we should have difficulty in being EXPLICIT as to the binary boundary between NOT-DUNE and DUNE.

NOTE that THERE IS NO PHYSICAL BREAK-OUT of ‘the DUNE’ from the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, BUT ONLY A NAMING-inspired MENTAL-VISUAL BREAK-OUT, and thus no REALITY grounding for the DOUBLE ERROR inferred BEING and SOURCING powers with which we dress up ‘the DUNE’ (the ‘DUNE’ existing only as a visual picture in our mind).  That is, we use the DOUBLE ERROR to impute LOCAL BEING and the power of SOURCING actions and development; e.g. “the DUNE is growing higher and longer and is shifting towards the coast”.

While ‘humaning’ instad of ‘human’ delivers the same ‘exposé’ as ‘DUNING’ instead of ‘dune’, it may be more challenging for us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to ‘swallow’ because of our lifetime of EGO-conditioning (DOUBLE ERROR conditioning) where we use NAMING for the imputing of LOCAL BEING to OURSELVES.

VISUAL OBJECTIFICATION in concert with NAMING allows us to REDUCE, ‘EFFABLE-ize, ‘LOCAL-ize’ and ‘EXPLICIT-ize’ the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, as characterizes the transforming relational continuum aka the Wave-field aka the Tao.  But this reduction of the INEFFABLE to EFFABLE is only a CRUDE reduction which is nevertheless of immense information sharing value, … GET THE “PICTURE”?  Sharing that GIVES US “THE PICTURE” is no substitute for sensory experience because sensory experience is of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum.  No matter how much detailed knowledge is possessed by the virgin with the Ph.D. in sexual relations, VISUAL instruction is incapable of reproducing the conjugate scatter-gather experience.

Gathering-Scattering in a spherical sense comes in the form of the complex conjugate relation as in the Wave-dynamic where GATHERING with respect to one antipode is SCATTERING with respect to the conjugate antipode.  The ambiguity derives from our imposing of this model.  What is going on is TRANSFORMATION any way you look at it, and it is OUR SIMPLIFYING REDUCTION of TRANSFORMATION to the bipolar SCATTERING-GATHERING that introduces the ambiguity, and at the same time reduces the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT to the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.  As students learning how to master such complexity, our tendency is to leave our ‘deeper’ schooling behind once we have mastered the superficial EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT.

“As regards the academies, they are established in order to regulate the studies of the pupils and are concerned not to have the program of teaching change very often: in such places, because it is a question of the progress of the students, it frequently happens that the things which have to be chosen are not those which are most true but those which are most easy. And by that division in things which makes different people form different judgements, it so happens that certain people are in error contrary to their own opinion.” – Johannes Kepler, ‘Harmonies of the World’

As it turns out, it is our WESTERN CULTURE ADHERING social collective as a whole, that has opted for the ‘low road’ of KISS (keep it stimple, stupid) which has us make the DOUBLE ERROR based simplifying reduction (of NAMING and GRAMMAR), … BUT INSTEAD OF EMPLOYING IT AS A ‘WITTGENSTEIN LADDER’ TO BOOTSTRAP AN INTUITIVE LEAP TO THE INEFFABLE-BECAUSE-NONLOCAL-AND-IMPLICIT, … WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE FORE-GOING THE ‘INTUITIVE LEAP’ AND EMPLOYING THE LOCAL-EFFABLE-AND-EXPLICIT AS THE ‘OPERATIVE REALITY’.  So when we say John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, we mean it in the same “DOUBLE ERROR’ sense as “LIGHTNING FLASHES’ AND ‘FIRE-BURNS’.

SO, FOR US WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, IT’S “GOODBYE TO REALITY AS THE INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT, and ‘HELLO TO REALITY AS THE EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT’ which means the end of understanding our own participative contribution within relational dynamics that can be harmony or dissonance cultivating, and the beginning of labelling DOUBLE ERROR agents as EITHER BENOGENS (responsibles for the genesis of beneficial actions and developments) OR PATHOGENS (responsibles for the genesis of destructive/pathological actions and developments).

Of course this DOUBLE ERROR, binary logic dysfunction is a CRAZY-MAKER that will never work in the primary reality constructing role we are giving to it, but even though binary logic is screwing up our reality constructions, we continue to use binary logic to try to dig ourselves out of the hole that binary logic is digging us into.  As Bohm discerned, we need a new and more capable logic, and we have a new logic; i.e. the modern physics non-binary BOTH/AND logic of the INCLUDED medium wherein FIGURE-and-GROUND-are-ONE and which supports discursive rhetoric dealing with reality that is NONLOCAL, INEFFABLE and IMPLICIT.

NOTA BENE:  WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENT conservatives and liberals BOTH have their ladders up the wrong wall with their assumption that the LOCAL, EFFABLE, EXPLICIT is capable of capturing the primary reality, setting us all up (we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS) for an insane and inexorable tilting-at-windmill pathogens while putting us in denial of our inclusion in relational flow (in denial of mitakuye oyasin)

Our characterizing of COVID 19 as a pathogen (rather than relational dissonance) is a current manifestation of our rejection of the natural primacy of the NONLOCAL, INEFFABLE, IMPLICIT and our natural need for cultivating relational harmony therein.

 

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As Heraclitus observed and modern physics reaffirmed, SCATTERING-GATHERING is ONE dynamic, there is no such thing as EITHER scattering OR gathering, as we can see, … or rather, as we can intuit, since our vision is limited to FLAT-SPACE perspective, although our intuition has no such limitation.

If we imagined space to be a flat plane of infinite extent rather than a spherical surface, we could then see SCATTERING and GATHERING as TWO distinct and separate dynamics.  However, in the space of the real world of our actual sensory experience on the surface of a spherical earth, SCATTERING and GATHERING are ONE DYNAMIC which we know as TRANSFORMATION.

Of course, this is a ‘relational understanding’ wherein relations are in an innate and natural primacy over the abstraction of LOCAL thing-in-itself BEING which we know (as Nietzsche has pointed out) derives from the DOUBL ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR as for example, ‘KATRINA is GROWING LARGER AND STRONGER and is DEVASTATING the city of New Orleans.  In contemplating this DOUBLE ERROR construction, we lose touch with the larger reality of relational TRANSFORMATION.

THE DOUBLE ERROR:  The FIRST ERROR of NAMING establishes abstract LOCAL thing-in-itself existence and we conflate this with the SECOND ERROR of GRAMMAR in imputing to the NAMING-instantiated thing-in-itself the notional power of SOURCING actions and development.

So far, this is all VISUAL, … and all this VISUALIZATION based talk is distracting us from the basic reality of relational TRANSFORMATION.

WHY DO WE ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE DISTRACTED ‘from the reality of our sensory experience of inclusion in TRANSFORMATION’?  Why do we JUMP SHIP from the IMPLICIT-because-relational (or in other words, NONLOCAL), to the EXPLICIT-because-LOCAL?

WHAT YOU MEAN ‘WE’, WHITE MAN?

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