I’ll go in reverse order (by the way, please sign your posts. Comments on other people’s posts are signed automatically):<\/p>\n
Trac (October 12) asks about the distinction in Ex. 2 between layers that are dominant and layers that are supportive. This is something that varies over time. For instance, and to the point, usually the layer of ‘content’ is dominant, in the sense that this is where most of our attention goes. We are experimenting with making other layers dominant. If you accept that all the layers are going on at once, then ‘supportive’ just means ‘whatever isn’t dominant’. Take a look at Christopher’s post of 10\/14, too. It seems to me to speak to this point.
\nBruce asks again, as others did in the phone call, whether it is even possible to be aware of what is ‘not-content’. That is, doesn’t awareness always have content, so if we switch to (for example) bodily sensations, that becomes the content?<\/p>\n
That is just what we are exploring. My suggestion is that there are parts of experience that we can be aware of without making them content. A mood is the easiest example, or perhaps a headache that persists as we go about our activities. Bruce’s example of “circles of concern” is another example. I suppose the point (or one point) is that when you become sensitive to these various ‘supportive’ layers, so that they become dominant even though they are not necessarily ‘content’, new possibilities open up. This seems to be what Bruce found.
\nChristopher, your experience (and delight!) goes to the key distinction. I wonder, though: when you say that “it seemed to me that the emotionality . . . still depended on the matrix,” what is the knowledge that lets you make this statement.<\/p>\n
More in a second post.<\/p>\n
Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ll go in reverse order (by the way, please sign your posts. Comments on other people’s posts are signed automatically): Trac (October 12) asks about the distinction in Ex. 2 between layers that are dominant and layers that are supportive. … Continue reading