Exploring Centrelessness (guided meditation/talk 51min)
Added 2023-12-24 14:01:30 +0000 UTCThis meditation starts with a deep relaxing before moving into an investigation/description of centreless phenomenology. Definitely feel free to do this one lying down.
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We can go into this more over a call sometime!
Roger This
2023-12-28 22:33:26 +0000 UTCI get you, thanks for the answer. I have some uncertainty about the notions of "hierarchy of fabrication" and "rawer sensory input" as I am not convinced that cognition is a layered stack as opposed to a distributed system. In understand that experientially this seems true as "simpler" states of consciousness seems to have fewer features but I posit that we never experience raw sensory inputs but only phenomenological manifestations of brain processes that happens differently in different contexts
Riccardo Volpato
2023-12-28 20:19:49 +0000 UTCGlad you liked it, Riccardo! If I understand you correctly, all the information about sensations' location can be perceived as later, emerging features of rawer sensory input. Thus, all that relative spatial information is contextualised as not being the true 'objective' description of reality - that that piece of sensory data is really 'there' or 'here'. So at certain levels within the hierarchy of fabrication, they do contain information about their position (relative to other sensations, often somatic). However, at earlier stages within this hierarchy they don't yet (consciously) contain information about their position in space. Eventually this lower level of perception is too obvious, all the time. Hope you get me? :)
Roger This
2023-12-28 17:01:30 +0000 UTCWonderful meditation, thanks. Took me a couple of listens to appreciate the various concepts and may come back again. A questions. What is the relationship, if any, between centerlessness and the location of one's body and sensory organs in space? I relate with the sense of centerlessness you describe in the end as all sensations being equal. However, alongside that, sensations, especially visual and auditory, contain information about their position in space and in relation to one's body? Is any of that related to centerlessness or independent from it? I ask because I imagine many may mistake that for a center but doesn't seem to me something you mentioned. Thanks
Riccardo Volpato
2023-12-28 16:34:35 +0000 UTC
