The quote/unquote “REALITY” we ‘look into’ in our WESTERN CULTURE television NEWS coverage is not our SENSE-EXPERIENCE REALITY since that is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT.   In other words, the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM aka the Wave-field aka ‘the Tao’, … is not something that we can represent in words and PICTURES and discuss as if it were a reality viewable on a screen out there in front of us.

However, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS “DO” formulate REPRESENTATIONS that we purport to be ‘of REALITY’ as in our NEWS coverage reporting.

It is important to understand that the REALITY that we can REPRESENT is a SUBSTITUTE REALITY that is NOT the REAL REALITY of or actual sensory experience of inclusion in TRANSFORMATION; i.e. our inclusion in the transforming relational continuum that is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.

The reason why we generate and employ a SUBSTITUTE REALITY is because it is impossible to capture in LANGUAGE, a  representation of the transforming relational continuum we and everything are included in.  Kepler notes our voyeur view of the Solar System is based on what he calls ‘raticinative intellection’ while our understanding of inclusion in the Solar System entails ‘intuitive intellection’ which is INEFFABLE since being inside a relational continuum wherein everything is in flux allows us no access to fixed references and no sense of LOCALITY, leaving us with an understanding of reality purely in terms of “intuitive intellection”;

Under these circumstances, it will not have been surprising if anyone who has been thoroughly warmed by taking a fairly liberal draft from that bowl of Pythagoras which Proclus gives to drink from in the very first verse of the hymn, and who has been made drowsy by the very sweet harmony of the dance of the planets begins to dream (by telling a story he may imitate Plato’s Atlantis and, by dreaming, Cicero’s Scipio): throughout the remaining globes, which follow after from place to place, there have been disseminated discursive or ratiocinative faculties, whereof that one ought assuredly to be judged the most excellent and absolute which is in the middle position among those globes, viz., in man’s earth, while there dwells in the sun simple intellect, πῦρ νοερὸν, or νοῦς, the source, whatsoever it may be, of every harmony.” – Johannes Kepler, ‘Harmonies of the World’  [ διανοὶα or ‘dianoia’ = discursive intellection],  νοῦς or ‘nous’ = intuitive intellection],

The point is the overall dynamic that we experience inclusion in is ‘the Tao that cannot be told’ aka the all-including Wave-field which is available to our intuition but not to our rational voyeur visual scrutiny.

The world that we look out at as voyeurs wherein is not the world of our sensory experience of inclusion therein but is instead a SUBSTITUTE REALITY that we CAN represent in our DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR constructions.

When we use language constructs such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING, this is no longer the reality of TRANSFORMATION because if it were, we could only speak of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE in which TOWNING would be a VERB without there being any ‘TOWN’ as a NOUN or NAME implying a LOCAL THING-IN-ITSELF, notionally with its own powers of GROWTH.  That would then be the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR that Nietzsche is pointing out.  By using language to form representations featuring this abstract LOCAL thing-in-itself we call ‘the TOWN’, notionally with its own (grammar-given) powers of SOURCING actions and development (e.g. GROWTH, WE ARE CONSTRUCTING A SUBSTITUTE REALITY that is now EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT whereas TRANSFORMATION which is the stuff of our raw reality of sensory experience therein is INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT as is the nature of the Wave-field in which forms are continually gathering and scattering.

As Lao Tzu and Modern physics have pointed out, the REAL REALITY is INEFFABLE so that in order to use language to even INFER the reality that is INEFFABLE because in continual flux, we have to construct a SUBSTITUTE REALITY to set up a system of INFERENCE that points to the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT ‘real Wavefield reality’.

The issue being discussed in this essay is that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, while having had to devise an abstract SUBSTITUTE REALITY that is EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT; e.g. ‘the TOWN is GROWING in size and productivity’ in place of ‘the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, have fallen into believing in the SUBSTITUTE REALITY as if it ‘were real’ which imparts to us certain BELIEFS that we have bundled into the SUBSTITUTE REALITY.  For example, while our sensory experience is of inclusion in a TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE wherein everything is in flux, so that we are stuck in the same situation as Heraclitus and Lao Tzu wherein ‘the Tao that can be told is not the true Tao’; i.e. we are stuck with the problem of INEFFABLITY of the reality our our sense experience lives.  While we can construct the ‘work around’ using language and grammar to construct a SUBSTITUTE REALITY that “IS EFFABLE”, our WESTERN CULTURE MISTAKE has been to employ the SUBSTITUTE REALITY as if it were the REAL REALITY.

The problems we are generating for ourselves by so doing, which the EAST and Modern physics avoids by sustaining a non-explicit representation, are outlined in terms of SEVEN ABSTRACT BELIEFS which should never have been ‘beliefs’ but which should have remained ‘tools of inference’.  But as Emerson noted, the tool of inference has run away with the workman, the human with the divine’ (i.e. the EFFABLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT’ has run away with the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICT)

The following SEVEN ABSTRACT BELIEFS derive from the SUBSTITUTE REALITY.  The problem lies in our WESTERN CULTURE practice of ELEVATING these SEVEN ABSTRACT INFERENCES (tools that are EFABBLE-because-LOCAL-and-EXPLICIT for inferring the INEFFABLE-because-NONLOCAL-and-IMPLICIT reality) from tools of inference to pseudo-realities.

For example, the concept of GROWTH (instead of TRANSFORMATION) implies the existence of a LOCAL, INDEPENDENT THING-IN-ITSELF that is changing on its own and without being part of the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.  This leads to the GROWTH ECONOMY problem wherein we plow up the Wilderness in the service of GROWING agricultural and industrial production.  However, that only makes sense within THE SUBSTITUTE REALITY.  In the REAL REALITY, the GROWTH of cultivated land is in conjugate relation with the REDUCTION of Wilderness.  So, in REALITY, what is going on is the conjugate of GROWTH of cultivated land and LOSS of Wilderness which is, in other words, TRANSFORMATION of the overall LANDSCAPE.  The implication is, that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GROWTH.

As this essay points out, our continued use of BINARY LOGIC hold us prisoner within the SUBSTITUTE REALITY which we are taking to be real; i.e. our WESTERN CULTURE social dynamic orients to the GROWTH of construction and production as if this were ‘reality’ while it is instead an abstract SUBSTITUTE REALITY, and we are increasingly experiencing undesirable consequences of our error.

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Our WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMIC is shaped by the following SEVEN abstract beliefs that set up a SUBSTITUTE REALITY.

-1- The ERRONEOUS BELIEF that GROWTH as something REAL.  GROWTH is NOT REAL, there is only TRANSFORMATION.  The notion

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