The intensity of an experience and the quality of the same experience are inversely related, as regards the entrapment or entrancement vs. freeing of attention.
By tendency, our attention gets trapped by the qualities of an experience and we fail to note the intensity of the same experience. We sense qualities first, intensity, second, according to our interest.
When we shift attention to the intensity of an experience, we put less attention on the quality or the feeling of the experience.
That shift, when made completely enough, releases us from entrancement by the qualities that keeps us trapped. The experience dissolves into pure intensity without definition.
On the other hand, if the attractiveness of an experience is sufficiently overwhelming, in a given moment, attention is not free enough to shift to the intensity of the experience. The experience takes on, or is assigned, the status of "solid" reality, "real" reality, "unchanging" or persistent reality.
At that point, all we have left, to do, is deal with the particulars of the experience. Transcendence is impossible.
There is an "escape hatch": the peculiar property of the four-dimensional TetraSeed, that when all of its expressions -- attention, intention, memory, and imagination -- are well-integrated and resonate together, the whole lot loses its density, its cohesion. Experience dissolves into an "open field" sensation -- undefined or free attention. The solid fixity of "reality" loses its solidity and dissolves and the sense of self, also dissolves into formless, pristine consciousness.
Integration of the distinct particulars of experience dissolves into into a unified integrity without distinctions.
The fixed, hard-case, solid "status" of reality softens and spreads, loses intensity, loses density until it is forgotten.
If the experience shows up in life, again, its a very different kind of experience than one might have expected.
Integration into integrity dissolves distinctions.
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