PREFACE: THE THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS: Because we, ourselves, are INCLUSIONS  within the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, Nature equips us with THREE LEVELS of AWARENESS (as described by Erich Jantsch).  WESTERN CULTURE has evolved a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that common SUBSTITUTES for this THREE-WAY “NON-BINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM”, the TWO-WAY BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM.  One way to think of these THREE LEVELS of AWARENESS and how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS use LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING to REDUCE the THREE LEVEL AWARENESS to TWO LEVEL AWARENESS is to think of HOW SOLAR IRRADIANCE (highest level 1) manifests in the Earth’s atmospheric dynamics.   While the FIELD of INVISIBLE SOLAR IRRADIANCE IS NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, it sitimulates TWO DIFFERENT types of VISIBLE BEHAVIOUR described in TERMS OF LOW PRESSURE ZONES (FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING INFLUENCES THAT PULL THINGS AROUND, and in terms of HIGH PRESSURE ZONES (MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING INFLUENCES that PUSH THINGS AROUND.    Our WESTERN CULTURE MISTAKE is that we become DIVIDED into BINARY LOGIC based OPPOSING GROUPS, a CONSERVATIVE GROUP that supports LEVEL 3 AWARENESS, where the understanding is in terms that the WAY TO GET THINGS MOVING IS TO GIVE THINGS A PUSH.  The SECOND, OPPOSING MEMBER OF THE BINARY LOGIC PAIR is the LIBERAL GROUP that supports LEVEL 2 AWARENESS that can be described by the understanding that the WAY TO GET THINGS MOVING IS TO SEDUCE or ENCOURAGE/INDUCE their active participation; i.e. a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING infuencing approach.

WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, because WE HAVE BECOME SO PRE-OCCUPIED WITH THE DIVISION AND ARGUMENT OVER WITHER “WHETHER WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD IS THE RESULT OF MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING (the CONSERVATIVE OPINION) OR FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING (the LIBERAL OPINION), … LOST IN THE SHUFFLE IS THE LEVEL 1 AWARENESS OF THE NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT INFLUENCE of ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMATION.

There is NO POINT in arguing over whether THE HURRICANE IS STIRRING UP THE ATMOSPHERE (the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING VIEW) of whether THE ATMOSPHERE IS STIRRING UP THE HURRIANE (the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING VIEW)… BECAUSE BOTH OF THOSE VIEWS ARE SECONDARY DEVELOPMENTS ARISING FROM THE PRIMARY AGENCY OF SOLAR IRRADIANCE WITH IS NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT and non-reducible to something LOCAL and EXPLICIT and AMBIGUOUS which brings forth UNRESOLVABLE ARGUMENTS such as “DO CONTINENTS DRIFT OR DOES THE SEAFLOOR SPREAD”.  These TOO-SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC BASED OPPOSING PROPOSITIONS ARE THE RESULT OF USING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING BASED ON “BEING”.  THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “BEING” IN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM (the WORLD that we share inclusion in).

“Nothing indeed has exercised a more simple power of persuasion hitherto than the error of Being, as it was formulated by the Eleatics for instance: in its favour are every word and every sentence that we utter!—Even the opponents of the Eleatics succumbed to the seductive powers of their concept of Being. Among others there was Democritus in his discovery of the atom. “Reason” in language!—oh what a deceptive old witch it has been! I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar.”  –Friedrich Nietzsche, “Twilight of the Idols” (in the chapter “Reason in Philosophy”).

Where there is TRANSFORMATION, AUTHORING IS NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT rather than LOCAL and EXPLICIT

Once we introduce the ERROR OF BEING into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, we have an ARTIFICIAL TOOL that supports LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING in terms of the LOCAL and EXPLICIT ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS of “BEINGS” which becomes the source of FRAGMENTATION in WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE AND THROUGHT.  This is why David Bohm, and Zen scholar Alan Watts and many others have pointed out that WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS need to UPGRADE our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME from our popular but TOO SIMPLE MATERIAL OBJECT BASED (BINARY LOGIC BASED) SCHEME to a LESS SIMPLE FLUID (PURELY RELATIONAL) SCHEME which employs only VERBS and avoids all dependency on NOUNS since NOUNS imply BEING.  (“BEING” serves as a foundation for UNREAL ABSTRACTIONS such as GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION, all of which imply BEING which OBSCURES the physical REALITY of TRANSFORMATION wherein, as Heraclitus affirmed, EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX.

This PREFACE is to REMIND THE READER that we have THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS and that the HIGHEST LEVEL OF AWARENESS, LEVEL 1 AWARENESS, is the AWARENESS OF OUR INCLUSION IN THE ALL INCLUDING, CONTINUALLY TRANSFORMING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, and that THIS HIGHEST LEVEL OF AWARENESS IS BLOCKED WHEN THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME GIVES A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE TO “BEING”.  For example, “THE TOWN IS GROWING” gives a foundational role to BEING which is INCOMPATIBLE WITH the understanding that “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” wherein EVERYTHING IS IN INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT FLUX.  Our SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMS that we are included within a TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM wherein “TOWNING IS A RELATIONAL FEATURE WITHIN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUUM” and there is NO SUCH THING AS A “TOWN” (THAT PURPORTEDLY GROWS AND DEVELOPS AS A “THING-IN-ITSELF”), and resides within a notional “ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE”.

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