David’s description of the exercise we did during the phone call (2 calls back) is not quite how I had meant to present it, but you can listen to the phone call yourself and decide. But his description of his own experience is striking, because it shows how strongly our experience is shaped by the way we organize experience (in this case through consciously picking out abstract aspects of experience such as ‘edge’ and ‘angle’.<\/p>\n
Reading this reminded me of a conversation I had recently that might lead you to try an experiment. Someone said to me that race seemed to be the single most essential element of a person. What she meant was that if she met someone, the single undeniable thing about them would be their race. My own sense of this was different: I felt that sex–male or female–was the single essential element. I could at least imagine<\/em> meeting someone and not noticing what race they were, but I could not imagine meeting someone and not noticing what sex they were (though their might be cases where I didn’t know.) Perhaps you can find a way to try this out in your experience and see what you find.<\/p>\n David’s other, related post is a nice description of a ‘condensed’ experience (not that your experience will necessarily be the same or even similar). The phrase that comes to mind here is ‘melting into’, even though that is not quite what David wrote.<\/p>\n To be continued,<\/p>\n Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David’s description of the exercise we did during the phone call (2 calls back) is not quite how I had meant to present it, but you can listen to the phone call yourself and decide. But his description of his … Continue reading