I’m going to follow the format that has been requested by participants in past programs and comment on other people’s posts in my own post, rather than by writing comments. We’ll see if that works well this time.
Bruce makes the point that various typologies (for instance) are not available to first-person “layers of mind” type inquiry. That seems right to me, though probably it is not a hard and fast line (as you get used to certain typologies, you may notice them operating in the background.) And Bruce, I think your point about the exchanges here in The Labyrinth as an extension of the Layers of Mind practice is exactly right. More generally, if you are in the write frame of mind, writing about your own past experience can be an experiential inquiry into your present experience.
In our phone call, we came up with various descriptions for the shift from focusing on content/objects to non-content/context. David, you’re suggesting that non-content leads naturally to the experience of space. That is indeed where we’ll be headed.
Hayward, I agree that thoughts (content) have the potential to shape ‘context’. I have sometimes thought of this in terms of thoughts ‘soliciting’ us to enter a certain field/background/framework. For instance, a thought about my father bubbles up, and it solicits to fall into a reverie about my father, or else solicts an emotional reaction that goes on to flavor experience for some time after that.
Jack
P.S. Please remember in your posts to choose the right category in the list on the right of the screen. The default choice, ‘general’ is always wrong, unfortunately.