{"id":2371,"date":"2012-03-23T06:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T13:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2012-12-06T16:38:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T00:38:57","slug":"upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2371","title":{"rendered":"Upside Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00c2\u00a0The self is too collapsed and it&#8217;s world is too parsed out. \u00c2\u00a0With substance, we are invited to imagine a zeroless world that sounds a lot like a black hole. \u00c2\u00a0About the self, we read &#8220;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.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0It&#8217;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 &#8220;Gesture of Balance.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0or &#8220;Knowledge of Freedom&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0&#8211;Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00c2\u00a0The self is too collapsed and it&#8217;s world is too parsed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=2371\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,61,74,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01_general","category-class-discussions","category-self","category-zeroless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}