Consciousness only is the only knowledge.
True knowledge is unknowable by the working mind.
The mind imagines and deconstructs imagination.
As imagination appears in the mind, the mind appears in consciousness.
As the mind appears in consciousness, consciousness appears in the absolute.
As the mind knows imagination, consciousness knows the mind.
That the absolute knows consciousness is the only knowledge.
Call this knowledge being the unknown.
Being the unknown is obviously non-conceptual,
the closest concepts describing the indescribable being words
like observational, experiential, and empirical.
Observational as in naturally witnessing without judgment.
Experiential as in being non-objectively universal.
And empirical as in the only empire is the empire of bliss.
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the arden tempest arrived today. part 3 of shakespeare's romantic trilogy. just started cymbeline act 5. mistaken identity is certainly a thread so far.
there's something else though. mad jealousy. in the winter's tale, there is leontes, and in cymbeline there's posthumus leonatus. just noticing the similarity in names as i write this.
just did a little research on the characters in the tempest which i read 25 years ago and so remember little. but ariel, one of the main characters whom i remember being my favorite and with whom i most identified at that time, means the lion of god. curiouser and curiouser.
and on a rather personal note, my father's name was leo. he would have been 108 on august 3. how's that for a propitious age? happy birthday dad.
as i so often say to something my four-year-old granddaughter says on our frequent video chats, that makes sense.
so this profound revelation is kind of blowing my paradigm live.
as violence is the action of duality, jealousy is its prime mover. damn that will shakespeare!
that's like negative negative capability.
for the record, i would like to thank john keats for turning me on to cymbeline.
like john lennon, i have been a jealous guy.
as violence is the action of duality, jealousy is its prime mover.
footnotes
1. absolute awareness is self-awareness.
2. within this self-awareness awareness is descending into unawareness and vice-versa like the rings of a tree.
3. self-awareness is like lightning. lucid dreaming is like the thunder told by a fool signifying nothing.
4. another name for lucid dreaming is divine imagination, myth.
5. cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part we see comes from the ground up.
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