Upside Down

The final paragraph of chapter 6 refers to the self in a way that seems like a mirror image of how we looked earlier in the chapter at substance.  The self is too collapsed and it’s world is too parsed out.  With substance, we are invited to imagine a zeroless world that sounds a lot like a black hole.  About the self, we read “Falling in on itself like a star that collapses to form a black hole, it consumes the knowledge inherent in Zeroless appearance and uses it to manufacture and proclaim the unknown subject.”    It’s as if the urges toward intimacy, connection, integration, and wholeness, are squandered on the self, which is perhaps really just a perspective taken on something greater, and then there is no energy left for a more deeply experienced “Gesture of Balance.”  or “Knowledge of Freedom”.  –Michael