The Four Faculties of Intuition That "Bridge" the Formless Consciousness with Conditional Reality

Don't take my word for it:

IMMANENCE and TRANSCENDENCE

"Between" the acausal Divine Radiance field and conditional manifestation there exists a "bridge" consisting of four functions -- of which body, feeling, breath and mind are secondary derivatives. Those functions are: * attention * memory * intention * imagination Each of those four functions is universal and irreducible among living beings; each is complementary to the others; each exists as a dimension of subjectivity and each has two other dependent functions that exist as dimensions of objectivity. Thus: * SUBJECIVITY:OBJECTIVITY:OBJECTIVITY * attention:placing:location (or hereness) * memory:integrity:persisting * intention:tendency:existing * imagination:originating:unknown (or mystery) In their unmodified state, these four are formless and entirely transcendental. In their modified state, these four appear as all conditionality, subjective and objective. Without all four, no conditionality is possible. The four triads integrate into four singularities: * CONSCIOUSNESS * RELATEDNESS * ENERGY * DIFFERENCE

CONSCIOUS:ENERGY is CONSCIOUS:LIGHT

As an integrated pair, these constitute the "substance" of conditional existence.

RELATEDNESS:DIFFERENCE

As an integrated pair, these constitute the differentiated modification of conditional existence.

DIRECT INTUITION

No difference, no relatedness. No light (or energy), no experience of consciousness. Persistence is the function of memory. Persistence is the essence of the sense of dilemma. No persistence, no dilemma. Thus, "Transparent (or merely apparent), Non-Binding, Unnecessary". These concepts have the curious quality that, when contemplated and integrated, they disappear, leaving undefined (unqualified) consciousness, or "ungraspability".

Thus, the immanent is one with the transcendent; the transcendent is the immanent. However, one must go beyond mere conceptual (superficial) ideation to FEELING them -- something that habitual modification of attention prevents. There are forms of contemplation that overtime this difficulty. #TetraSeedAwakening Be well, eat your vegetables -- and never argue with a mime.

Superficiality of Attention, The President, and US

A big problem of human beings is the superficiality of our attention.

Superficiality of attention is a supreme problem. This piece illuminates the problem and uses the President of the United States as a highly visible example.

Obvious in the existence of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), superficiality of attention appears commonly in the tendency to interrupt in conversation, inability or unwillingness to listen, in bogus economic theories, corrupt politics, abusive Capitalism, climate catastrophe, poor product quality, in "multi-tasking" (which, in reality, isn't multi-tasking, but switching from task to task to task with superficial and passing attention to all), software bugs, and even in typographical errors. 

People pay superficial attention and move too fast.

People are largely untrained in how to manage attention and so incapable of intelligently doing so. Though "attention management training" should be a major component of education, education, in that sense, has failed us.

For that reason, people lack discernment and miss the obvious. We make avoidable mistakes. Information overload and the pace of change contribute, making training in how to manage attention all the more urgently important.

The Presidential Case-in-Point

A case in point is our present President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

Before the election, the evidence was there of a self-indulgent and abusive personality. His reputation as such is well-established in New York, from his abusive business practices -- refusing to pay vendors and using prolongation of lawsuits to drain plaintiffs dry. It was evident in his declaration that he could "shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it."

But the information didn't penetrate people, and people voted for him and still support him.

Their attention is superficial and that superficiality prevents their intelligent discernment. It undermines their ability to recognize their mistakes and to correct them.

So, the problems pile up and troubles compound.

Superficiality of Attention, Witlessness of Speech

His own lack of attention and superficiality are evident in his speech about others and in his treatment of others. He is insensitive, excessive, and unintelligent -- even about himself -- and so are those of us who fail to recognize that.

Too bad.

Superficiality of Attention, "They Don't Deserve It"

Of note is his antagonism to social benefit programs, such as food stamps, free school lunches for children, Medicare, Social Security, NPR funding, and sanctuary for asylum-seeking immigrants (whether illegal or legal).

His actions in relation to these programs is consistent with the attitude that "they don't deserve it", and so he moves to deprive people of the protections.

As an illustration of his unintelligence about himself and others, due to superficiality of attention, I will illuminate the origin of his superficiality and of his self-righteous antagonism.

It Starts with Shame (the Hidden Side of Egotism).

In actuality, the feeling of "not deserving it" pertains to himself. His wealth (such as it may be) is the sign of his father's generosity to him, not of his capacity to earn wealth. He doesn't deserve it.

He knows it -- but the recognition is unacceptable, to him, laden with shame. The sign of this shame is his unwillingness to disclose his tax returns and in his boasting about things that don't deserve to be boasted about, but are actually shameful.

Even in hiding the evidence and his shame, the feeling of shame, of not deserving it, persists.  But because it isn't admissible to himself that he doesn't deserve it, and the feeling of not deserving it persists, it must not be that he doesn't deserve it, but that others don't deserve it. The feeling of not deserving it has to apply to someone. He shifts the blame onto others, while, in his own mind, exempting himself. (Ring true?) This also applied to the impeachment: In his own mind and speech, he didn't deserve it (as long as no one, including himself, looked too deeply). (Ring true?)

The superficiality is intentional to protect himself from self-recognition and self-generated shame. He "stonewalls" himself as he "stonewalls" others.

Self-Repression Makes One Repressive of Others

The abusiveness matches the effort of repressing self-recognition, in intensity; the abusiveness seems allowable and justified by the desensitization to his own condition, which also desensitizes him to others. He is insensitive, unintelligent, abusive.

By the same token that he falsely asserts his deservingness (of everything he wants), he asserts the deservingness of "fat cats" of fat tax breaks -- those "already wealthy fat cats" being like his own self-image. It's a bit like the perception of homosexuality by a heterosexual --  giving to those who would rightly be on the giving end but not giving to those who would rightly be on the receiving end.

That may take some contemplation on your part to see the validity of the metaphor -- political correctness notwithstanding. Feel the polarities of the two possibilities -- giving to those who would naturally be receptive (attraction) vs. giving to those who are potent to give (repulsion).

That's why the action of "tax cuts for the rich" is repulsive, at a deep level.

It may make one wonder if his sexual excesses (porn stars, pussy-grabbing) are an overcompensation for sexual shame of a certain kind.

Someone with a deeper sensitivity would never engage in such acts, recognizing the inherently unsatisfactory feeling of the experience.

Superficial attention leads to all of that.

What to Do about All of That?

The superficiality is intentional, if sub-conscious.

So, any attempt to get him to wake up would be working against "loaded dice".

Negative public opinion (and impeachment) trigger feeling beseiged -- a feeling that comes from within him charged by his own repressed shame.

The same is true, in general, of people whose attention is superficial and who support the superficiality and irresponsibility of others.

I have made reference to education and to shame. Lest someone get the idea that I am recommending "self-esteem" measures (a bogus solution, since such measures really involve "other-esteem" strategies that cultivate approval seeking and may involve false praise and exemption from consequences), I say, what is necessary is cultivation of attention-mastery (free attention) so that self-recognition and self-correction become possible. With self-recognition and self-correction, self-esteem isn't a problem -- and people become more intelligent.

However, people are largely resistant to self-recognition and self-correction and attention-mastery isn't a feature of current-day education. People even resist the intelligence of others.

For that reason, a major calamity may be necessary to extricate people's attention from habitual superficiality (complacency, self-defensiveness, and irresponsibility).

Two are looming:

1. climate destabilization (well underway)
2. the coronavirus pandemic (still at the beginning stage as of this writing)

Others, related to overpopulation and military possibilities, loom.

Better to "wake up and smell the coffee."

#TetraSeedAwakening
Deepening Attention

Addiction to Cheating, The "Drug" That Befouls All Relations

Go ahead -- cheat.
Continue to cheat.
Intend to cheat.

Cause cheating to be regarded as fair and necessary.
Cause the Party to be identified with the politics of cheating.
Cheater:  cause yourself to be remembered as a cheater.

The cheater feels cheated and justifies cheating others in misguided revenge.
The cheater reserves the right to cheat.
The cheater feels every counter-action to cheating others as an instance of being cheated.

What becomes of the cheater?
The cheater ever lives in fear of being found out
and counters that fear with brazen audacity.

Does the cheater recognize the face of fear in the mirror,
switched left to right and right to left?

The cheater, addicted to cheating, ever holds on and fall short of repentance.
The cheater feels the false pride and bitter satisfaction of cheating
and at last blames the victims of cheating for the cheater's angst.

Lies, corrupt laws and unfair policies, and guns are the instruments of cheaters and cheating.
Wherever they appear, cheating is afoot.

The cheater uses technicalities to excuse cheating, but is not truly exonerated, thereby.

Know the truth.
Politics, economics and law have become infested with cheaters.
Cuckoos have usurped the nest.

Intentionally-Distorted Memory, Cuckoos, Conservatives and Progressives

This piece describes and explains the unfairly biased, deceptive, even self-deceptive behavior of a certain class of human beings ("Cuckoos") -- otherwise known as "Trump Conservatives" -- as well as people brought up on the idea that the purpose of language is to get ones own way, rather than to convey the truth of situations to get ones way.

When we Intentionally remember something,
our intention either magnifies the memory in intensity and detail
or it spins off or generates alternative, imaginary memories
through acts of Imagination.

Alternative Imaginary ("intentionally biased") Memories are then taken
(or held to)
as actual, uncontestable memories of actual reality.

The words, "taken as actual, uncontestible memories", mean,
"giving imaginary memories the status of truth,"
to be used or acted upon as if, the truth,
as if they were the actual and accurate impression of the way things were,
as the way things are.

The words, "Alternative, Imaginary Memories", refer to
self-serving memories, imaginings deliberately departing
from the more vividly remembered memories of actual experience,
created to protect oneself from the expected consequences of actual memories.

This act of self-protection is called,
self-deception, unfair bias, and lying.

In practice, generating alternative, imaginary memories means
everything from wishful thinking, fantasizing and hoping,
to having the conceit to enforce ones own imaginings
upon the world, as if ones imaginings were absolute truth
and others' memories were the deviated, distorted ones.

It's self-deception through the imagination,
a departure from the truth
intended to be acted upon as if true.

When intentional attention intensifies a memory,
without otherwise acting upon it
the memory is magnified without
(much) distortion and is amenable to easier
memory modification (correction).

The relative freedom from intentional memory distortion
among two individuals
makes rapport relatively easy.
Their amenability to imagining
the intention behind someone's words and
remembering it so meanings fit together
makes communication possible.

Listening is openness to imagining.
Listening is receptiveness to remembering.
Listening is openness to and for communication.

Listening ~~ intensification of attention and
receptivity to remembering ~~
opens the communication channel.
Listening is the very foundation of communication.

This is how intuitive individuals experience
higher-order intuitive information and communication
beyond, with or without words or symbols.

Individuals who intentionally distort their memories
who engage in selective memory and self-deception
find it easier to be in the company of
similarly self-deceiving individuals.

They may be called, Cuckoos.

Because, in a conversation between Cuckoos,
neither Cuckoo allows themselves to perceive what
they actually remember,
they also let each other off the hook,
and allow substitution in the act of communicating
of shared, imagined memories,
in place of actually remembered memories.
They then proclaim their imagined memories loudly and often.

They should be recognized as Cuckoo 
by their confusion 
of imagined memories,
with actually remembered memories based upon
actual experience.

When large groups of Cuckoos get together,
their shared self-deceptions enable them to form
large-scale flocks of Cuckoos,
flocks that appear many places the social structure.

Flocks of Cuckoos act upon their shared, imagined memories
as if those memories were based in personal, direct, experiential knowledge
rather than mere shared agreement.

Cuckoos don't actually listen beyond their own memories
or their imagination.
They selectively override their own intelligence (foresight, conscience)
which comes in through the channel of imagination alloyed with memory.

Such individuals are unwilling to enter rapport with individuals who can tell the difference between imagination and memory. 
They don't want to have to face their own actual memories; they prefer their imagined memories (e.g., lies, distortions, and self-deceptions).  
They prefer to fool themselves, to pretend to believe, and so to "justify" fooling others.

So they contest memory,
through intentional memory distortion,  
self-locked into self-deception,
decrying others as fake, rather than
recognizing and acknowledging themselves as fake,
attributing their own faults to others,
especially to other persons, groups, or parties
who call out Cuckoos' faults, legitimately.

This is how Cuckoos operate.

Intentionally attending to a memory
magnifies it 
with the increasing accuracy and completeness
that we call coherent focus.

Intentionally imagining alternative memories
(sometimes called, "alternative facts")
divides attention between 
the alternative memories, 
alternative "facts"
and actual memories (and actual facts).

Divided attention is lower intensity (lowered intelligence) attention.
With attention at a lower-intensity, self-deception and
deception of others can continue unrecognized or unaddressed.

Cuckoos don't like more highly-integrated individuals
~~ sometimes called, "progressives" ~~
because, under the scrutiny of "progressives",
the self-and-other-deception of the Cuckoos
becomes less and less possible.

Instead, the intensity goes up.  They find such intensity
intolerable
and so seek to suppress it (e.g., suppress free speech).


Since Cuckoos can't take the intensity
they create distractions: 
drama through transgressions small and large, 
misbehavior
lies.

Cuckoos bleed off the surplus intensity
of the creative attention of
higher-integrity progressives
by means of misbehaviors that
seem to demand Progressives' attention.

They set "fires" that Progressives may feel compelled (distracted) to put out.

So, the activity is one of Intentionally acting upon Memory,
to avoid Integrity of Memory
to "change" it,
to lower the intensity,
and intentionally to reinforce
lower intensity, lower integrity of intelligence.

It's deliberate stupidity,
a wasteful situation.

Better for Attention to be drawn by Imagination
to the Mysterious Originating of Things unknown,
so that wasted intensity regathers (Remembered Integrity)
so that what emerges before our eye of intelligence, from Imagination
may be Captured in Memory
and then made Tangible for the Common Good.

That process of capturing intelligent impulses
mysteriously received and perceived in imagination,
capturing and saving intelligent impulses in memory,
making intelligent impulses tangible by creative action -- 
that process is a distinct teaching,
part of something larger.

There is a distinct teaching of that process.
Though that teaching may take different forms
its root basis or foundation is the same among all:
balanced intelligence.

This writing stirred your intuition.
There's more stirring, possible.

#TetraSeedAwakening
#Global Cooperative Forum
#BalancedIntelligence

Spirituality as Expungement

Spirituality as a path of relief,
seeks expungement of the confusions and contradictions
inherited from the history of ones ancestors and
from the ocean of psychic currents and noises of mind
that are ones experience of life.

Our race has come an adequate distance through the ages
to have accumulated a far mass of memory
from the times of rocks
to the cleanliness and relative precision of technological excess
and experimentation in ones own origins.

The minds are saturated with the echoing and residual noises
of times gone into memory and memory and memory

so that the moment is drowned out and locked up
in the sins of mind and confusion.

The noises of chaotic memory
echo in our muscles and sinews and bones
so that there is no rest
and all is beset by the urgencies of necessary contingencies.

People are nuts.

The one direction, unsuspected,
is the cleaning of the slate, anew.

No mind need move.

When all that has been known has been made transparent
and so brought to rest
no mind ensues.

Then, when the creative signal comes
we "hear" it and are free to create anew,
what is emerging within The Unknown Unknown,
only to bring into existence
a new noise, a new sound
to the symphony of All and All

only to fall into indifferent rest, again,
sensitive to every motion,
unmoved.

Spiritual life
conceived as a path of relief
leads either to involvement,
or nowhere, at all.

Sometimes, we have to back up to move forward.

The inheritance of the ages and of the ocean of life
gravitate attention into involvement
until we recover our wholeness of parts
and realize that our wholeness
the unknown known,
faces the unknown unknown.