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In the "waking up" teaching of The SuperHuman Operating System taught by Ken Wilber, et. al., four (or five) states of existence are taught:
waking (gross body)
dreaming (subtle body)
deep sleep (formless causal/ground of being)
Turiya ("the fourth")
Turiyatita ("beyond the fourth")
The process of "waking up" involves a progressive awakening of individual consciousness in each of these states.
The description of these five states is actually five categories of conceptualization, five ways of conceptualizing experience -- of putting words to it. All conceptualization is dualistic in the sense that it indicates differences and implies states that are separate from each other; it also implies that someone or something makes the transition from one to the other. All duality is conceptual; there exists no duality in reality, but only conceptually.
There exists a little problem with this description. If these states are separate and distinct, how does individual consciousness make the transition from one to the other? Are there little bridges made of something else that connect the states? And what is it that makes the transition?
Allow me to de-dualize the description.
Let's start at deep sleep.
Ordinarily, we don't register deep sleep consciously. We are unconscious in deep sleep. Our attention no longer makes subject-object distinctions, but rests in its source; memory no longer records the content of experience, but rests, unformed, in its source; imagination no longer forms images, but rests in its source; intention no longer moves, but rests in its source. Identity formation no longer occurs, so there is neither experience nor experiencer.
Because that is all so, we have no recollection of the deep sleep state. We carry nothing from the deep sleep state into either the dream state or the waking state. So, we say, we were unconscious.
However, it is possible to get an intuition of the formless ground of being by approaching it from the waking state.
The procedure involves a progressive dissolution of the distractions of attention. Those distractions are like clouds that obscure the clear sky. As distractions settle, thoughts become fewer and farther between; images become fewer and farther between. In the space between thoughts and images, an ordinary, silent, imageless field is intuited. It is without content, without center, without size, and perfectly continuous with our existence or sense of being conscious. It is our own ground of being, our own nature.
It has, as its single property, a kind of scintillating radiance. "Scintillating" means, fizzy. It's like the white noise between radio stations or the "snow" on old-style television sets, between stations. Every point within that radiance comes into and goes out of existence faster than we can remember, and all points come into and go out of existence in an asynchronous fashion, so no form congeals within the formless field. It is "self" with no defined sense of self. Neutral. Faceless face. No subjectivity.
Within that field, forms may arise, gathering density. This is the beginning of dreaming, imagining. Those forms are made of the scintillating substance of the formless ("causal") field and are given apparent substance by the ability of attention to locate them by their persistence, by their activity, and by the direction of their changing. They are made of the formless field the way ocean waves are made of water molecules. The scintillations form locations of coherence. In fractal mathematics, it's called, "islands of order in a sea of chaos".
Dreaming exists in subjectivity. In terms of the AQAL matrix, we experience dreaming in the left-hand quadrants.
However, for every left-hand quadrant, there exists a right-hand quadrant; for every "inner" experience, there exists an "outer" experience that can be seen by others.
In dreaming, that "outer" experience can be measured with electronic instruments for brain activity (EEG) and muscular activity (EMG). The subtle body (left-hand quadrants) always has a correspondence in the gross body (right-hand quadrants).
Note that the waking state cannot be distinguished from the dreaming state; when dreaming, we are convinced we are awake -- the exception being when we have awakened within a dream and recognize we are dreaming! Then, the only difference between the dream state and the waking state is the content; more possibilities exist within the dream state. But the sense of consciousness in both is the same.
The waking state is made of the same "substance" as the dreaming state: it is the modification of the ground of being into coherent forms. The "causal" state, undergoing modification, is the dream state and is the waking state -- the way waves are the modification (or movements) of water. Waves of water are "something added" to the mere existence of water molecules, a higher level of organization. Waves are an "emergent" the way dreams and waking state experiences are emergents of The "causal" Ground of Being.
Thus, it is said, that Brahman (the "one true self") projects the Universe of all things and selves from "itself" and re-absorbs the Universe of all things and selves into "itself".
So much for the dualistic conceptualizations of "waking", "dreaming", and "deep sleep" -- or "gross", "subtle", and "causal".
With this way of conceptualizing, there exists no need for "little bridges" between states, nor need there exist "someone" who is transitioning between states. The "someone" is a modification of the "causal" substance; the self is "the imagined/remembered owner of memory". Feel that, for a moment.
When imagination is defeated by formlessness, when memory is defeated by formlessness, when attention can locate nothing in formlessness, when intention is at rest in formlessness, we say we have a tacit intuition of the Ground of Being of Reality.
That inclusive, tacit intuition, we call, Turiya. Turiya recognizes that gross, subtle, and causal are of one substance. Thus,
Whether a man dispassionately sees to the core
or passionately sees the surface,
core and surface are essentially the same --
words making them seem different
only to express appearance.
If words be needed,
"wonder" names them both.
From wonder into wonder
existence opens.
~~ Lao Tzu,
The Tao Teh Ching, Stanza 1
Witter Bynner translation
Turitytita is Turiya, beyond the attraction and distraction of conceptualization
and so, ordinary experience, non-dual, in the sense,
"not-two"
and
"not not-two"
One more thing:
The TetraSeed
is both the subtle body (left-hand quadrants)
IMAGINATION | INTENTION | ATTENTION | MEMORY
and the gross body (right-hand quadrants)
SENSE OF DIRECTION | ACTIVITY | LOCATION | PERSISTENCE
arising mysteriously in the formless causal field.
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One of the Major Effects of working with the TetraSeed (doing TetraSeed Transformation procedures) is the emergence of higher intelligence. Higher intelligence emerges with the integration and alignment of the four TetraSeed Life-Faculties at our core.
ATTENTION MEMORY INTENTION IMAGINATION
Alignment? Integration? What does THAT do?
It gives you focus.
Focus involves two dimensions
location
depth
These, you notice, are not mental faculties. They are perceptual faculties. They are not mere ideas; they are the experiences of abilities. Some refer to these abilities as "superhuman abilities" -- but I say, they are natural human abilities that are supposed to come on-line as we wake up, clean up, and show up in life.
Notice "high-functioning" human beings you may have known or know about. Notice that they have all four of these faculties -- ATTENTION, MEMORY, INTENTION, IMAGINATION -- operating at a high level. Wouldn't you like to be able to say, "I'm like that"?
Working with the TetraSeed Transformation procedures brings changes of a completely different order than teachings that have you remembering and believing things -- whether common sense, popular opinion, religious authority or scientific knowledge -- things that are supposed to tap you into the source of empowerment. Working with the TetraSeed Transformation procedures works at and supports the underpinnings of all other teachings and approaches -- practices that require relentless discipline or constant self-monitoring ("mindfulness"). The TetraSeed Transformation procedures clear the way and streamline personal development.
Working with the TetraSeed enables you to put your attention where your intention is (to "look where you're going"), improves your ability to put your intention where your attention is (to get results where you need them), to remember and be able to make your ingenious ideas tangible (instead of losing them because of failure to capture them in creative action); to face and receive every moment of Newness (the moment of Nowness) in a more receptive and intelligently spontaneous way; and to dissolve the grip of what we remember or think we know (which is often wrong, misguided or unnecessarily limiting) so that we may more freely express new, higher intelligence in the moment.
Working with the TetraSeed Transformation procedures triggers, psychoactively, the integration of our native intelligences in a more highly intelligent way. De-focus from The Old and re-Focus in a new way. The procedures cause that De-focus / re-Focus process.
By means of procedures for exploring the TetraSeed, our un-illumined habits of mind and life become known to ourselves in a way that is otherwise fleeting and elusive, beyond reach. The TetraSeed Transformation procedures are powerful introspection techniques that go beyond mere self-knowledge -- to higher self-integration. "Integration" means "Higher Intelligence".
Attitudes and habits tend to come into better balance. Clarifications occur. New spontaneous and more satisfactory behaviors ensue -- satisfactory to ourselves. We require less to become aware of (to notice) changing conditions, not because we are more vigilant, but because we are less buried in memory and mind, more free to notice changing conditions. We are aware, in a more balanced way, of our inner life and of our outer circumstances. A "word", to the wise, is sufficient, and a "word", to you becomes sufficient. Higher Intelligence Emerges in you.
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