I AM ! AM I ?

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: it is one thing to clarify the "true" self versus the "false" self, to come into an awareness of "I" as "seer/observer" ----and this is quite an experience : it is another thing, entirely, to intuit this "I" as THE ground of being or to suggest that subject-object cleavage is illusory and needs to be transcended : i recall Jack Haught's "Cosmic Adventure" and description of a heirarchical universe : it seems that dualists hypothesize a heirarchical universe and draw a distinction between contingent being and primal ground, primal support and primal being : and that nondualists hypothesize a nonheirarchical universe wherein being is simply Being : my own perspective vascillates between dualism and nondualism, between the heirarchical and the nonheirarchical and also between the apophatic and the kataphatic : i can "see" where everybody is coming from and embrace the world views as separate peepholes into ultimate reality : it is a liminal, Heisenbergian, threshold-like existence, now this-now that ... : are we metaphysical monists/epistemological dualists? metaphysical dualists/epistemological monists? metaphysical monists/epistemological monists? metaphysical dualists/epistemological dualists? : even the nondualists don't confuse the pointing finger with the object pointed at, the concept with the reality : perhaps looking at the world as only a dualist or as only a nondualist, looking at God only kataphatically or apophatically ... yields the equivalent of a two dimensional artist's rendering rather than three-dimensional reality : we are Light : we are waves : we are particles : we are wave-particles : we are white light : we are rainbows : when we are poised on the threshold, in liminal space, with open hands, open hearts ...we experience the 4th dimension, we see the next heirarchical level as brilliantly, but as briefly, too, as we see the countryside during a lightning flash : not one-not two : personally, nondualistic perspectives seem very intuitive and understandable when i posit a nonheirarchical universe and dualistic perspectives seem very intuitive and understandable when i posit a heirarchical universe--- : is the universe nonheirarchical? heirarchical? : yes AND no : either OR neither : i think that rather depends, not just on whether you are asking an epistemological or a metaphysical question, but also on whether you are asking being or Being? are perhaps you wish to dialogue with Non-Being? : one thing seems clear: the East deserves respectful dialogue and the West deserves respectful dialogue : the dualists are definitely on to something : the nondualists are definitely on to something : is there a bell? a ringer? one who hears it ringing? or am "i" bell-ringing-ness <grin> : we turn to St.Paul for that answer: i am a noisy gong and sometimes a clanging cymbal! shalom, johnboy : ps this has been fun, even if it hasn't been useful :>)

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