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the safest General characterization of

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the European philosophical tradition is

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that it consists of a series of

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footnotes to Playdoh I do not mean the

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systematic scheme of thought which

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Scholars have doubtfully extracted from

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his writings I allude to the wealth of

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General ideas scattered through them his

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personal endowments his wide

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opportunities for experience at a great

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period of civilization his inheritance

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of an intellectual tradition not yet

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stiffened by excessive

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systematization have made his writings

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an inexhaustable mine of

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suggestion Alfred North Whitehead

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over the course of the centuries

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following the Advent of Christianity

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Western philosophy has often times

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experienced itself as standing in a

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rather ambivalent relationship to the

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platonic tradition of thought during the

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13th century medieval Scholastic

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philosophers would call into question

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the independent reality of forms thus

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signaling what would seem to be a

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radical departure from chrom's own

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neoplatonic Origins later Renee deart

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would attempt to upend the authority of

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platonic and by extension Aristotelian

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philosophy through his regrounding of

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epistemology within radically

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perspectival subjectivistic

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skepticism later still Friedrich nche

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would attempt to even more radically

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distance himself from this platonic

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Heritage n would come to invert the

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central platonic duality of imminence

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and Transcendence Body and Soul Earth

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and Sky particular and Universal by

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developing a metaphysics of embodied

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power within which the celestial Supras

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sensory realm was understood to be a

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contingent projection of embodied human

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subjectivity the platonic tradition had

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seen the formative realm to be more

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ontologically foundational more really

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real than the imminent world of mere

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appearance the Eternal unchanging

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Universal form forms were seen as the

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ultimate underlying reality while the

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imminent sensorial world was regarded as

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a realm of transient imperfect impure

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Shadows of the Divine n and metaphysics

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conversely attempted to radically

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reconfigure this cosmology such that

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embodied subjectivity was seen to be

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that which is of the utmost ontological

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Primacy while platonic philosophy had

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tended to regard the bodily realm and by

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extension personal subjective experience

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as morally ambiguous at best and as

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illusory chaotic malevolence at worst n

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instead came to see this denial of

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bodily existence as a rejection of life

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itself which was rooted in an inability

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to affirm the value of existence in the

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face of human

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suffering and yet despite how radically

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and even viciously anti- platon IC

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nich's metaphysics May superficially

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seem we find that even nche was never

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truly able to wriggle himself out from

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beneath the very long and very heavy

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shadow of the platonic Spirit as Martin

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haiger came to see in his extensive

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analyses of nich's work everything anti

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is held fast in the essence of that

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which it moves against n's philosophy is

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indeed an inverted form of PL ISM but

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due to that very inversion n's

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philosophy does not Escape platonism but

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rather his philosophy becomes a Black

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Mirror into which the platonic tradition

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still very alive within nche himself was

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forced to gaze into its own Abyssal

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Darkness this video is going to be about

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the incorrigible omnipresent and

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ultimately inescapable platonic Spirit

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of Western philosophy as we shall see

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more clearly moving forward all Western

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thought is either consciously or

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unconsciously neoplatonic in essence but

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more specifically this video is going to

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be about the very darkness of God which

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n wrestled with throughout his entire

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life as we shall see n's struggle with

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this Abyss was in fact the reenactment

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of a fundamental tension a fundamental

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Paradox which has resided within the

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inner fathoms of the place onic

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tradition since its very Inception and

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inner instability which has in fact been

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the central engine that has driven the

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development of Western philosophy as a

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whole even unto the present

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video in many ways we could see all

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platonic philosophy as a metaphysics of

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light light is that which discloses the

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World by rendering it intelligible

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through illumination and within platonic

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thought intelligibility and being are

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considered to be effectively if not

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quite literally identical the light

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produced by terrestrial and Celestial

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fires was seen as the outer expression

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of the light cast by The Noose a term

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which we can roughly approximate as

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intellect within helenistic cosmologies

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the Noose is the faculty of the human

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organism which is shared with the Divine

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while the body experiences sensations of

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the outer contingent realm of appearance

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it is the Noose which is able to cognize

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the forms which give shape to reality

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the human noose therefore discloses the

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truth of the world through its

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prehension of the forms which inform the

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world while the Divine Cosmic noose is

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that which discloses the world itself

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through sculpting the world from the

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Abyssal chaos of formless

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nothingness Aristotle tells us that

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sensorial light is a potency which is

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able to trans mute potential colors into

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actualized colors and that the Noose

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operates in much the same manner but in

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a much more subtle way by transmuting

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potential experiences of Truth into

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actualized

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noasis even prior to the birth of

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helenistic philosophy fire and light

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were often seen to constitute the most

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primordial forms of existence living

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bodies grow and expand and are

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characterized by a softness which

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derives from the animating power of

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water dead bodies conversely stop moving

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and become rigid and dry living bodies

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at least those of higher organisms hold

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themselves Aloft above the surface of

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the Earth while dead bodies come to be

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subsumed into the mineralized

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mineral world was thus associated with

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the past and the past was understood to

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be the consequent activity of the

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Eternal realm the bodily composition of

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nature in other words consisted of

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events which had already occurred within

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the transient flow of becoming and such

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past events were informed by the

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activity of that which is eternal that

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which transcends or stands above the

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realm of

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manifestation that which was higher was

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therefore that which was closer to the

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Eternal realm which nature was generated

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from while the lower was that which was

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further away seemingly inert mineral

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objects were considered to be the least

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animate constituents of the world in the

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sense that they were the furthest

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removed from the animating power of the

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Divinity here we can begin to see the

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basic outline of what we today might

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refer to as alchemical or Elemental

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thought though we must keep in mind that

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such Elemental thinking goes far far

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and even much deeper than helenistic

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philosophy itself Elemental Earth is

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that which has achieved greatest

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stability it is the most complete and

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therefore the least motile it is the

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past as well as the continuity or

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inertia of the past and it is of course

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the realm of the dead or

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underworld water is that which animates

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all biological organisms unlike mineral

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objects water does not maintain rigid

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boundaries between internal and external

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and therefore the water element is able

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to flow through life forms

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indiscriminately as a vitalizing potency

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which is able to weave organisms

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together into the complex metabolic

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circulations of ecological

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symbiosis air is puma and pra the Breath

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of Life which human being share in

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common with the animal kingdom but not

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the mineral or plant kingdoms air is

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even more subtle than water in that it

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is not drawn downward by gravity nor

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does it resist changes in its density in

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the way that water does the mobility and

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fluidity of the Breath of Life is thus

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transferred to the animals which Breathe

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It unlike plants animal bodies are not

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Tethered to the Earth their motion is

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not dictated by vital processes of

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growth but rather by the power of

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sentient

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agency finally fire stands out among all

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other elements for a variety of reasons

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unlike the other elements which are able

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to sustain themselves within the natural

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world of their own bodily inertia fire

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instead requires fuel in order to

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maintain itself within the terrestrial

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domain fire demands sacrifice as it were

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as fire is not native to the terrestrial

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world upon the surface of the Earth fire

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is a Stranger in a Strange Land but

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above us we can see that fire is the

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primary constituent of the celestial

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world the sun and stars are beings of

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divine inextinguishable fires when fires

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burn here on Earth they move upwards

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attempting to return to their ultimate

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origin among the vast diversity of the

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Earth's biological organisms there is

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but one creature which has attained

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Mastery over fire and that is of course

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the human being

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just as Manifest fire produces sensorial

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light the inner fire of the human noose

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produces the subtle light which

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appropriately then allowed us to

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subordinate terrestrial fires to our

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will and thus allowed us to create a

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distinctly human world which

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differentiated itself from the purely

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natural

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world light even more subtle even than

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fire is therefore that which is most

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character istic of the Divine realm of

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Eternal forms light itself is not

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considered among the four classical

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elements because unlike the other four

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elements light was seen to be

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fundamentally Spirit rather than a

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modality of matter by Discerning the

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archetypal nature of light therefore we

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can begin to see the most fundamental

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core of Western platonic Consciousness

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and we can see this inner nature of

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light most clearly by examining it in

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contrast to its polar counterpart

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darkness in a dark room we can see that

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a fundamental characteristic of darkness

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is

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homogeneity no matter where we look we

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see only the same perfectly uniform

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Blackness light however cuts through

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this uniformity whereas Darkness

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seemingly flows through boundaries in

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complete disregard for delineations of

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internal and external light is reflected

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by such boundaries or absorbed as heat

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it is therefore through the discernment

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of light in contrast to the indifference

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of darkness which allows light to inform

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the

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formless light can therefore be

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understood as the most fundamental

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modality of formative potency that which

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facilitates the manifestation of forms

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such as colors and images light is thus

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understood to be the most primordial

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form of order intelligibility and

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therefore being itself in contrast to

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the chaos undifferentiation and

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nothingness of

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Darkness within the neoplatonic

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cosmology of platinus the monad

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otherwise known as Source or simply as

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the one is regarded as the most

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primordial and ontologically ultimate

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form of pure being the monad is the

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ultimate core of existence itself which

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conditions the underlying Unity of all

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manifest reality according to platinus

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all things are and can only be

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expressions of the primordial monad as

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it is the will of the monad which

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preconditions the possibility of all

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manifestation the monad is the platonic

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form of the good it is ultimate unity

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and it is also the will unto the

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realization of ultimate unity as we can

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see the neoplatonic metaphysics of

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figures such as platinus and pseudo

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deanicus would build upon earlier

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platonic thought so as to form the germ

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of what would eventually become the

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Christian theological tradition this

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fundamental duality of light and

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darkness being and nothingness form and

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formlessness is the most fundamental

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core of all Western thought whether

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philosophical or theological

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scientific or spiritual classical or

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postmodern explicit or

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unspoken and yet we can also see that

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this is not a perfectly symmetrical

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Duality being is regarded as that which

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creates the world whereas nothingness is

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an entirely passive absence of being the

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primordial monad the ultimate embodiment

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of being and light is also the ultimate

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form of Harmon harmonious Oneness it is

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value itself and therefore darkness and

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Chaos by contrast can seemingly be

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nothing more than the privation of value

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what could Darkness possibly be other

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than the mere absence of light what

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could nothingness possibly be other than

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mere vacuity the absence of

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God this imbalance however would give

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rise to a number of deeply fundamental

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paradoxical and seemingly intractable

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complications of platonic cosmology we

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see these paradoxes begin to emerge

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within Plato's timeus as Plato attempts

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to contend with manifest nature and its

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relationship to Eternal unmanifest

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Divinity here Plato introduces the

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notion of the Kora a kind of receptacle

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much akin to the notion of empty space

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which must precondition the possibility

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of nature nature and becoming in order

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for the forms to participate in a world

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then there must be something which

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underlies the world which the forms are

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able to manifest themselves

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into quote the Kora is Everlasting and

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indestructible it grants an abode to all

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created things but in itself the Kora is

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to be apprehended with non sensation by

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a sort of bastard Reckoning which is

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hardly

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trustworthy looking unto this Kora we

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dream and affirm that it is necessary

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that all things be somewhere in some

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place and occupy some receptacle but

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that which is neither on Earth nor

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anywhere in the heavens is

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nothingness so likewise it is right that

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the substance fit to receive over its

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whole extent the images of all things

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intelligible and eternal should itself

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of its own nature be void of all form

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therefore let us not speak of her this

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mother and receptacle of this generated

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World by the names of Earth or air or

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fire or water or any Aggregates or

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constituents thereof rather if we

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describe her as a kind invisible and

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unshaped all receptive and in some

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utterly perplexing and most baffling

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manner partaking of the intelligible we

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shall describe her truly

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PL the

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timeus if you watched my previous video

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essay on the transhumanist death cult

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then you can likely now begin to see how

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this story picks up where that one left

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off what Plato is grappling with here is

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quite explicitly the great mother

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goddess which we have seen depicted as

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Tiamat within Sumerian cosmogony the

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formless mother which seems to utterly

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defy the very intelligibility which

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Plato has identified as the essence of

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existence itself and which quite

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paradoxically seems to nonetheless be an

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absolutely necessary condition for the

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possibility of the world which we

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actually

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inhabit Plato refers to the Kora as a

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third category of existence or rather

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non-existence as it defies

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categorization as either form or

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appearance forms are apprehended through

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noasis and yet the Kora must be utterly

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lacking in form and thus cannot be an

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object of noetic perception bodily

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Sensations conversely detect particular

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manifestations of form within the bodily

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realm and yet the Kora must also be

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utterly empty and lacking in the

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delineations which separate and Define

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bodily entities if this formless mother

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cannot be an object of either the

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sensory or spiritual faculty

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then how can we possibly even speak of

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it at

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all it seems that there is an immensely

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fundamental mystery at play Within These

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passages of the timeas Plato speaks of

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this ultimate Darkness with a tone of

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ambivalence or even somber resignation

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as the Kora would seem to be that which

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stubbornly stands in utter Defiance of

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Plato's metaphysical Matrix and yet

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which remains utterly indispensable

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within that very

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cosmology within Aristotle's physics

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however we see intimations that this

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mystery of ultimate nothingness extends

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even further than is made explicit

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within the

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timeus quote Plato says in the timeus

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that matter and the Kora are the same

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for the receptive and the Kora are one

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and the same although the manner in

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which he speaks of the Kora in the tus

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does differ from that in the so-called

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Unwritten teaching

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he nevertheless does declare that

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location and Kora are

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identical in other words it would seem

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that Plato's notorious Unwritten

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teachings those which were reserved for

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only the most fully initiated of his

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students contained knowledge of this

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Divine darkness which are not found

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within the socratic dialogues

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unfortunately I do not have access to

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those Unwritten teachings due to the

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fact that my application for the

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Illuminati is still being reviewed but

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luckily we can do more here than simply

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speculate as to what the ultimate

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Mysteries of the Kora must be here we

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will once again return to platinus and

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in particular his writings which pertain

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to the nature of matter as indicated by

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Aristotle above helenistic philosophy

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did not regard matter as a

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classification of physical objects or

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substances but rather matter referred to

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the formlessness which was informed so

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as to become the natural world in other

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words matter a word which shares a close

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eological connection with the word

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mother was taken to refer to the very

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same formless Kora described by Plato

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what platina sets himself in search of

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within the inad is what later Alchemists

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would refer to as the primma Materia the

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underlying substrate as it were from

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which the natural world must be sculpted

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by the noetic Light of the higher Realms

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platinus argues that this primma Materia

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cannot simply be a category or modality

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of existence as we might say of the four

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classical elements for example because

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this formlessness cannot possibly endow

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entities with any properties being

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utterly vacuous in itself it cannot

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inform existing things in the world even

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more so than Plato platinus regards the

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Prem Materia with a kind of of moral

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indignation he seems to almost chastise

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the darkness for defying intelligibility

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and yet refusing to Simply dissolve into

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irrelevance he states that whatever this

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nothingness tells us is a lie that

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whatever it pretends to be it is not it

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is in other words pure seeming pure

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appearance as it were as such platinus

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is suggesting that this Abyssal void is

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that which allows the ninal formative

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reality to manifest as mere appearance

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the primma Materia or Kora might thus be

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understood as a pure apparentness which

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is not itself a form but rather a

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formlessness which forms lose themselves

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into thereby creating images which are

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less intelligible and less fully real

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this void would therefore seem to be the

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very imperfection which differ

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differentiates the world of becoming

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from the world of

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forms platinus then comes to a very

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curious conclusion he infers that the

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primma Materia or Kora within an entity

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is in fact an inherent negativity or

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negation which is intrinsic to all

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manifest beings within the natural world

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the Kora within a manifest object is

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therefore the invisibility of the

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object's interior the Blackness of the

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colors which remain mere potentiality

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within a pitch dark room it is the

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undecidedness of a decision which has

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not yet been made the unmanifest nness

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As it were of that which has yet to be

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informed that which has yet to be

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disclosed through the Luminosity of

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noasis here I want us to take a slight

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detour from platinus and examine a line

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of reasoning developed by a much more

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metaphysician the 19th and 20th Century

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philosopher hre bergson in his text

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matter and memory bergson grapples with

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the friction between metaphysical

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naturalism and idealism and attempts to

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carve a path through that impass by

557
00:26:15,399 --> 00:26:18,200
reexamining the notion of matter which

558
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,679
has become one of the most Central and

559
00:26:20,679 --> 00:26:23,559
most highly ambiguous Concepts within

560
00:26:23,559 --> 00:26:26,960
the modern scientific worldview bergsen

561
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,159
notes the way in which matter tends to

562
00:26:29,159 --> 00:26:31,520
be conceptualized as that which somehow

563
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,720
resides underneath or behind our

564
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,320
phenomenological experiences of the

565
00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,000
world I can look at an object such as a

566
00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:42,039
candle from a variety of different

567
00:26:42,039 --> 00:26:43,960
angles or in different lighting

568
00:26:43,960 --> 00:26:46,840
conditions I can examine its weight

569
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:49,399
texture and color but each of these

570
00:26:49,399 --> 00:26:52,480
observations will be by definition

571
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:55,720
experiences of matter not the matter

572
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,799
itself as matter is said to be the

573
00:26:58,799 --> 00:27:02,520
objective reality of the candle our

574
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:05,279
actual empirical experiences of the

575
00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:07,640
candle would seem to consist of no more

576
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:11,159
than subjective Sensations if matter is

577
00:27:11,159 --> 00:27:14,039
defined as pure objectivity then it

578
00:27:14,039 --> 00:27:17,000
would seem to be ever beyond our reach

579
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:19,320
as our conscious experiences of the

580
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,880
world are necessarily subjective we

581
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,039
might then conclude that there simply is

582
00:27:25,039 --> 00:27:27,919
no matter after all and instead lean

583
00:27:27,919 --> 00:27:30,480
into to an idealistic interpretation in

584
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,240
which the subjective Sensations are

585
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,919
exhaustive of

586
00:27:34,919 --> 00:27:37,799
reality this conclusion however seems

587
00:27:37,799 --> 00:27:39,760
unsatisfactory in that it would seem

588
00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:41,600
incapable of accounting for the

589
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,080
continuity of sensory experiences if

590
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,600
there is no matter which underlies my

591
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,039
sensations of the candle then why do

592
00:27:50,039 --> 00:27:52,200
these Sensations seem to adhere to an

593
00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,200
underlying order why do the sensations

594
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,279
of light and warmth always reemerge when

595
00:27:58,279 --> 00:28:00,880
I leave the room and return if there is

596
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,840
nothing beneath those Sensations which

597
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,880
conditions their

598
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,399
manifestation bergson resolves this

599
00:28:08,399 --> 00:28:10,919
Paradox by concluding that if the word

600
00:28:10,919 --> 00:28:13,559
matter does not refer to our particular

601
00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:16,159
sensations of the candle then there is

602
00:28:16,159 --> 00:28:18,279
only one other referent to which that

603
00:28:18,279 --> 00:28:22,799
term might apply namely to potential

604
00:28:22,799 --> 00:28:25,480
Sensations bergson thereby infers that

605
00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,799
the matter of the candle consists in the

606
00:28:27,799 --> 00:28:30,200
EXP expressions of the candle which are

607
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,679
as yet

608
00:28:31,679 --> 00:28:34,320
unmanifest sensations of warmth which

609
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,240
have not yet been felt sensations of

610
00:28:37,240 --> 00:28:39,519
light and color which have not yet been

611
00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:42,720
seen feelings of weight and texture

612
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,399
which have not yet been felt to use

613
00:28:45,399 --> 00:28:48,600
conent terms we could say that the Pinal

614
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,840
candle consists of a field or phase

615
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:56,440
space of potential phenomenological

616
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:58,519
manifestations thus we can see that

617
00:28:58,519 --> 00:29:01,240
bergson's analysis points us towards the

618
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,559
exact same conclusion suggested by

619
00:29:03,559 --> 00:29:06,880
platinus the materiality of the candle

620
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,480
consists precisely in its darkness and

621
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,919
the aspects of its being which remain

622
00:29:13,919 --> 00:29:16,200
undisclosed but here we can also begin

623
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:18,440
to see the boundaries of platonic

624
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,360
thought itself begin to blur we do

625
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,000
indeed experience the materiality of the

626
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,399
candle but this materiality is

627
00:29:26,399 --> 00:29:30,519
experienced by the mind or noose not by

628
00:29:30,519 --> 00:29:33,880
our sensory organs as this materiality

629
00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,840
is by definition behind the sensory

630
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,960
Impressions which our bodily organs

631
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,880
encounter as previously noted Plato

632
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:45,200
suggested that formlessness could not be

633
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:49,360
grasped by noasis as it is an ambiguous

634
00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,799
non something which is devoid of

635
00:29:51,799 --> 00:29:54,360
conceptual contents but when we

636
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,600
apprehend the materiality of the candle

637
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,200
this is indeed a noetic conceptual

638
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,399
experience it would therefore seem that

639
00:30:03,399 --> 00:30:05,679
we are only able to encounter this

640
00:30:05,679 --> 00:30:08,760
formless Kora in so far as its

641
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,720
indeterminacy is conjugated with

642
00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,399
formative

643
00:30:13,399 --> 00:30:16,519
Powers the materiality of the candle is

644
00:30:16,519 --> 00:30:19,760
not experienced as an amorphous blob of

645
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:20,720
pure

646
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,799
potentiality rather this is a field of

647
00:30:23,799 --> 00:30:25,640
potentiality which itself is

648
00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:28,039
characterized by a well-defined morph

649
00:30:28,039 --> 00:30:30,679
phology the possibility space of

650
00:30:30,679 --> 00:30:32,880
potential flickerings of the flame is

651
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,360
not fully determinant but it is not

652
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:38,799
utterly indeterminate either it is a

653
00:30:38,799 --> 00:30:41,480
composite image as it were in which

654
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,679
certain possibilities are more readily

655
00:30:43,679 --> 00:30:46,960
available than others and significantly

656
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,960
in which contradictory possibilities are

657
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,640
able to overlap with one

658
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:54,960
another here I want us to make yet

659
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,399
another detour This Time by looking at

660
00:30:57,399 --> 00:30:59,600
the works of the 19th century German

661
00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:02,799
metaphysician Friedrich shelling one of

662
00:31:02,799 --> 00:31:05,039
the most Central Concepts found within

663
00:31:05,039 --> 00:31:07,600
shellings cosmological thought is that

664
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,320
of the groundless ground of existence

665
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:14,519
which we might otherwise refer to as the

666
00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:18,120
ABR this ABR is yet another conception

667
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,679
of divine Darkness one which shelling

668
00:31:20,679 --> 00:31:22,880
derives from earlier German thinkers

669
00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:26,320
such as the 16th century Mystic yaka BMA

670
00:31:26,320 --> 00:31:28,760
and the 13th century the Theologian

671
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:29,799
Meister

672
00:31:29,799 --> 00:31:32,480
echart shelling was a contemporary of

673
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,000
Hegel another philosopher For Whom the

674
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,559
notion of negativity was of central

675
00:31:37,559 --> 00:31:39,960
importance but one significant manner in

676
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,039
which shing's metaphysics differed from

677
00:31:42,039 --> 00:31:45,399
that of Hegel was in shellings notion of

678
00:31:45,399 --> 00:31:47,559
indifference while shelling and Hegel

679
00:31:47,559 --> 00:31:50,039
both prominently attend to Notions of

680
00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:53,200
identity contradiction negation and

681
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:54,840
nothingness shelling comes to

682
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,159
conceptualize difference in a much more

683
00:31:57,159 --> 00:31:59,600
nuanced manner by considering the

684
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:03,279
conditions needed for the suspension of

685
00:32:03,279 --> 00:32:06,039
negation in order for differences to

686
00:32:06,039 --> 00:32:08,679
exist and thus allow for the natural

687
00:32:08,679 --> 00:32:11,360
world of change and diversity

688
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,639
contradictions between distinct entities

689
00:32:13,639 --> 00:32:16,279
must somehow be allowed to sustain

690
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:19,720
themselves for object a to be different

691
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,919
than object B then object B must also be

692
00:32:23,919 --> 00:32:27,080
not a if this is indeed the case then we

693
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:30,360
might conclude that objects A and B must

694
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,080
necessarily annihilate one another

695
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,960
unless there is something at play which

696
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,000
can allow this contradiction of selfhood

697
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,240
and otherness to maintain itself in

698
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:44,799
order for there to truly be a cosmos A

699
00:32:44,799 --> 00:32:47,519
unity in which differences are able to

700
00:32:47,519 --> 00:32:51,120
coexist in solidarity then there must be

701
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:54,240
a hidden forth as it were which is not

702
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,919
selfhood otherness or Unity for for

703
00:32:57,919 --> 00:33:02,039
shelling this Missing Link is the abgr

704
00:33:02,039 --> 00:33:04,360
which shelling characterizes as a form

705
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:05,440
of

706
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,720
undifferentiated no thingness which much

707
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:11,600
like Plato's Kora is understood as a

708
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:14,760
sort of vessel within which the seeds of

709
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,519
the natural world can come to

710
00:33:17,519 --> 00:33:20,600
germinate the contradictions of distinct

711
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,519
self identities are able to coexist and

712
00:33:23,519 --> 00:33:26,080
conjugate within the world specifically

713
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,919
due to the very IND difference or rather

714
00:33:29,919 --> 00:33:32,639
undiff which both underlies such

715
00:33:32,639 --> 00:33:34,799
separate entities and which is also

716
00:33:34,799 --> 00:33:37,480
contained within them as we saw

717
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,720
previously in our examinations of light

718
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,559
and darkness light either reflects off

719
00:33:42,559 --> 00:33:44,880
of the boundaries of other entities or

720
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,240
transforms them through the transfer of

721
00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:50,760
heat Darkness conversely is completely

722
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,720
indifferent to such delineations when

723
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,799
the light recedes Darkness engulfs and

724
00:33:56,799 --> 00:33:58,919
inundates all things with complete

725
00:33:58,919 --> 00:34:01,960
disregard to the boundaries of identity

726
00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:04,120
the light of the sun can obscure the

727
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,440
stars but the very passivity of Darkness

728
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,079
allows for the multiplicity of stars to

729
00:34:10,079 --> 00:34:12,040
be simultaneously

730
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:14,560
visible in one sense this might seem to

731
00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:17,200
be just obvious distinct entities are

732
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,359
able to coexist because they occupy

733
00:34:19,359 --> 00:34:22,280
different locations within space the

734
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,240
Kora in other words facilitates

735
00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:26,520
difference in the form of spatial

736
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,960
extension but but we must also realize

737
00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:32,879
that this undiff of outer space is also

738
00:34:32,879 --> 00:34:36,280
complemented by an undiff of Inner Space

739
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,720
as well returning to our previous

740
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:41,040
observations recall that within the

741
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,079
phase space of possible manifestations

742
00:34:44,079 --> 00:34:47,159
which is in fact the materiality of the

743
00:34:47,159 --> 00:34:49,639
candle we can see that a range of

744
00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:52,280
contradictory possibilities are able to

745
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,320
be suspended alongside one another

746
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,160
without negating one another to now

747
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,400
borrow from shelling we can say that

748
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,320
this suspension of contradiction is

749
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:06,839
facilitated by the very undiff of the

750
00:35:06,839 --> 00:35:10,960
abgr or Kora which resides within the

751
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,400
candle it is the very no thingness of

752
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,359
the Kora which allows for the

753
00:35:16,359 --> 00:35:20,000
multiplicity we find within the world of

754
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,640
becoming as the above examples already

755
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,400
indicate this platonic theme of light

756
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,680
and darkness is one which spans across

757
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,720
Ross the full scope of Western

758
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:32,160
philosophical history but in order to

759
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:34,320
better understand the full significance

760
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:36,720
of this let us now once again return to

761
00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:38,880
the world of classical

762
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,000
neoplatonism as we have already begun to

763
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,680
see the darkness of the Kora can be

764
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,119
understood as a kind of pure

765
00:35:46,119 --> 00:35:49,119
potentiality one which becomes carved

766
00:35:49,119 --> 00:35:52,000
down as it were into more defined

767
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000
morphological spaces through the

768
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,800
ingression of formative elements

769
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,839
this darkness is characterized by an

770
00:35:59,839 --> 00:36:03,079
utterly undifferentiated homogeneity it

771
00:36:03,079 --> 00:36:05,680
is also understood to be necessarily

772
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,599
uncreated as creation necessarily

773
00:36:08,599 --> 00:36:11,240
involves the endowment of form the

774
00:36:11,240 --> 00:36:13,960
formless Kora must therefore be an

775
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:16,880
eternal condition for the possibility of

776
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,000
all existing things paradoxically these

777
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,359
would seem to be the exact same

778
00:36:22,359 --> 00:36:24,920
characteristics which the neoplatonists

779
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,359
ascribe to their primordial monad much

780
00:36:28,359 --> 00:36:31,400
like the Kora the monad is said to be an

781
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,079
ultimate Eternal Oneness which

782
00:36:34,079 --> 00:36:37,200
preconditions all existence how could it

783
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,760
possibly be that in their innermost

784
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,520
Essences ultimate being and ultimate

785
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,760
nothingness would seem to share the

786
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:47,400
exact same

787
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,400
properties furthermore this monad itself

788
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:53,000
should be all inclusive there should not

789
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,119
be anything separate from it as all

790
00:36:55,119 --> 00:36:57,280
things are said to be generated through

791
00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,560
IM ation from the monad in other words

792
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,319
the Kora the ultimate of formless

793
00:37:03,319 --> 00:37:06,800
Darkness chaos illusion and non-being

794
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:09,560
should be contained within the monads

795
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:14,040
own ultimacy of light order truth and

796
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:16,440
realness returning now briefly to the

797
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,760
19th century we can see this Paradox

798
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:22,040
even more explicitly in Hegel search for

799
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,359
Pure being Hegel asks us to consider an

800
00:37:25,359 --> 00:37:28,440
object such as your own body let's say

801
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,359
and then asks us to consider what

802
00:37:30,359 --> 00:37:33,640
exactly the being of this entity amounts

803
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,760
to what exactly is the power at play

804
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,440
here that results in the realness of

805
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,560
your body what differentiates an actual

806
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:45,520
body from one which is merely conceptual

807
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,079
or imaginary a purely conceptual version

808
00:37:49,079 --> 00:37:51,640
of your body could have all of the same

809
00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:54,680
determinate properties such as weight

810
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,640
color shape and texture while none nth

811
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,680
less remaining non-real in contrast to

812
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:04,440
your actual body thus we can infer that

813
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:07,119
the being of your body does not consist

814
00:38:07,119 --> 00:38:08,520
in any of these

815
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,560
determinations your body's being is not

816
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:14,720
its weight shape colors or textures and

817
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:17,800
so we must go deeper in search of being

818
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,400
yet no matter how deeply we look into

819
00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,119
ourselves we seem to find nothing other

820
00:38:23,119 --> 00:38:25,319
than determinations which could equally

821
00:38:25,319 --> 00:38:28,599
be properties of an imaginary body once

822
00:38:28,599 --> 00:38:31,240
we have stripped down an entity of all

823
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,240
its determinations in search of its

824
00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,760
being what we find ourselves to be left

825
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,079
with is paradoxically

826
00:38:39,079 --> 00:38:41,480
nothingness Hegel thus concludes that

827
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,200
being and nothingness are both

828
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,880
fundamentally characterized by

829
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:47,599
undifferentiated

830
00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:50,240
indeterminacy what makes your body real

831
00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:53,400
is in fact that it is an intersection of

832
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:56,359
being and nothingness considered in

833
00:38:56,359 --> 00:38:58,160
themselves being and nothingness are

834
00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,560
revealed to be two sides of the same

835
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:03,839
coin the male and female poles as it

836
00:39:03,839 --> 00:39:08,160
were of one and the same primordial siy

837
00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:09,839
but there's one crucial Insight here

838
00:39:09,839 --> 00:39:12,720
that we must not Overlook conceptual and

839
00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:15,440
physical existence may be distinct but

840
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,480
the conceptual itself is more than pure

841
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:21,400
nothingness the being of your physical

842
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,040
body is the negation of outer

843
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,440
nothingness while the being of the

844
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:29,280
imaginary body within your mind is the

845
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,000
negation of inner

846
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,079
nothingness the Renaissance artist

847
00:39:34,079 --> 00:39:36,800
Michelangelo stated that every block of

848
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,520
stone has a statue within it and it is

849
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,119
the task of the sculptor to Discover It

850
00:39:43,119 --> 00:39:44,720
Michaelangelo's words are more than a

851
00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:47,119
mere poetic inflection as they present

852
00:39:47,119 --> 00:39:49,440
us with an immense metaphysical

853
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,200
transformation of human awareness

854
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,000
Michelangelo's statement points us

855
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:57,880
towards the Paradox of form and formless

856
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,280
and to the manner in which this platonic

857
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,720
Duality would begin to

858
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:05,520
reterritorialize itself during the age

859
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,119
of European

860
00:40:07,119 --> 00:40:09,599
Christendom Plato and his successors

861
00:40:09,599 --> 00:40:12,200
conceptualized the world of forms or

862
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:15,760
hyper Oran realm as existing above and

863
00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,480
beyond space and time within an

864
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,960
unchanging pristine anacron which

865
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,040
transcends all of Nature and which

866
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,640
stands in diametric opposition to the

867
00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,880
Abyssal darkness of the Kora yet

868
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:31,560
Michelangelo's statement would seem to

869
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,280
suggest that the forms which are

870
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,800
revealed by creative activity are

871
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,000
actually contained precisely within the

872
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,000
darkness of the world the statue of

873
00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:44,680
David exists not in some unreachable

874
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:47,560
realm Beyond Human Experience but rather

875
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:50,359
it is found within the very

876
00:40:50,359 --> 00:40:53,440
indeterminacy or inner darkness of the

877
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:54,920
unformed

878
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,960
marble a solid block of marble contains

879
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,599
within its own formlessness all of the

880
00:41:00,599 --> 00:41:02,880
statues which could possibly be carved

881
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,040
from it yet as this formlessness came to

882
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,079
participate with Michelangelo's own

883
00:41:08,079 --> 00:41:10,480
inner awareness this moment of

884
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:13,000
phenomenological disclosure revealed the

885
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,640
latent statue of David specifically

886
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,480
elaborating upon this Insight we could

887
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,720
say that the Kora in itself contains the

888
00:41:21,720 --> 00:41:24,400
entirety of all real

889
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:26,480
potentialities recalling once more the

890
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,599
insights of Friedrich shelling we can

891
00:41:28,599 --> 00:41:32,160
see moreover that it is the very undiff

892
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,480
of this Abyssal groundless ground which

893
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:37,599
allows these disperate mutually

894
00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:39,960
contradictory forms to reside in

895
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,520
solidarity with one another it is also

896
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,680
no mere accident that we see this

897
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,119
metaphysical Insight expressed by a

898
00:41:48,119 --> 00:41:50,920
Renaissance artist transformations of

899
00:41:50,920 --> 00:41:53,240
human consciousness always begin with

900
00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:55,319
artists and only later do these

901
00:41:55,319 --> 00:41:57,359
evolutionary developments come to be

902
00:41:57,359 --> 00:41:59,760
explicitly articulated by

903
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,200
metaphysicians it is only later still

904
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:05,200
that these novel forms come to solidify

905
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,040
such that they are able to enter into

906
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,000
the unconscious chattering of Statesmen

907
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:12,599
rhetoricians and academic

908
00:42:12,599 --> 00:42:14,760
Scholars looking to the Renaissance

909
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,920
period we see numerous Monumental

910
00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,599
Transformations begin to unfold and one

911
00:42:19,599 --> 00:42:21,520
of the most radical developments which

912
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,920
we can observe here is the birth of

913
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,240
perspectivity within visual art Within

914
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:29,160
perspectival art forms we can see

915
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,920
Humanity coming to an awareness of the

916
00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:34,599
Inner Space of private

917
00:42:34,599 --> 00:42:37,280
subjectivity as well as the correlative

918
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:40,880
outer space of expansive emptiness in

919
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,520
order to understand the significance of

920
00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:44,880
this development however we must first

921
00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:47,240
take a moment to recognize what visual

922
00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:51,000
art itself actually is looking upon this

923
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,240
perspectival shift through the lens of

924
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:55,240
contemporary Consciousness we might be

925
00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:58,200
tempted to say that perspectival art is

926
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,599
more realistic than earlier forms of art

927
00:43:01,599 --> 00:43:03,160
which lack such

928
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,480
perspectivity this however would be a

929
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,920
very crude misunderstanding as it fails

930
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,400
to consider just how historically

931
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,720
conditioned our own understanding of

932
00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:16,480
realism actually is every genuine

933
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:18,920
artwork attempts to capture the essence

934
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:21,280
of that which is rendered when we look

935
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,839
at artworks which are allegedly more

936
00:43:23,839 --> 00:43:26,520
stylized what we actually seeing is a

937
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,000
different understanding of what is most

938
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,920
essential most real and most valuable

939
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,599
the techniques of visual art are both

940
00:43:35,599 --> 00:43:40,200
ontological and valuative moral gestures

941
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:43,079
we see earlier non-perspectival forms of

942
00:43:43,079 --> 00:43:46,240
art as less realistic because we have

943
00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:48,440
come to take for granted a metaphysical

944
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,520
disposition within which subjective

945
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:54,200
sensation is regarded as that which is

946
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,359
most fully real with classical platonic

947
00:43:58,359 --> 00:44:00,839
philosophy the world of appearance is

948
00:44:00,839 --> 00:44:03,400
regarded as ontologically deficient in

949
00:44:03,400 --> 00:44:06,359
relation to the conceptual domain a

950
00:44:06,359 --> 00:44:08,720
perspectival painting captures the

951
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:10,800
manner in which the object of the

952
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:14,319
painting is encountered by human sensory

953
00:44:14,319 --> 00:44:17,079
faculties such artwork is therefore an

954
00:44:17,079 --> 00:44:20,880
ontological and valuative affirmation of

955
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:24,400
such imminent experience an affirmation

956
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:26,640
which would have seemed utterly absurd

957
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:29,160
within the helenistic life world and

958
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,520
indeed within all such life worlds prior

959
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:34,839
to the Metamorphoses which began to take

960
00:44:34,839 --> 00:44:36,880
shape during the

961
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,720
Renaissance this implication that

962
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:42,839
subjective imminent sensation was more

963
00:44:42,839 --> 00:44:44,880
than a mere Shadow was something

964
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,000
radically novel and represents a

965
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:48,800
dialectical

966
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:50,760
reconfiguration which was beginning to

967
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:52,839
utterly recreate the collective

968
00:44:52,839 --> 00:44:55,720
unconscious of the Western World in

969
00:44:55,720 --> 00:44:58,319
order to understand this metamorphosis

970
00:44:58,319 --> 00:45:00,559
we must now turn to the single most

971
00:45:00,559 --> 00:45:03,160
crucial and Titanic event within the

972
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,839
evolutionary journey of platonic

973
00:45:05,839 --> 00:45:09,240
philosophy the mystery of golgatha

974
00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:11,920
what we see depicted in the story of

975
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:15,480
Christ is the Incarnation of the cosmic

976
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,559
logos the imminent manifestation of the

977
00:45:18,559 --> 00:45:21,119
cosmic will which animates and

978
00:45:21,119 --> 00:45:23,800
conditions the ultimate Destiny of the

979
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:26,400
world within the context of classical

980
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,880
platonic cosmology this narrative is

981
00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:32,319
almost nonsensically paradoxical the

982
00:45:32,319 --> 00:45:34,960
monad of platonic cosmology is an

983
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:38,839
ultimate form one of Eternal pristine

984
00:45:38,839 --> 00:45:41,680
Purity and Perfection which is as far

985
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,160
removed as possible from the dirty

986
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,640
impure contingent and fleeting world of

987
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,800
death Decay and delusion which imminent

988
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,599
Human Experience finds itself

989
00:45:53,599 --> 00:45:56,520
within the notion that this ideal of

990
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,200
ultimate value could become most fully

991
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,839
manifest within the life and death of an

992
00:46:01,839 --> 00:46:05,760
entirely ordinary particular human being

993
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,160
would seem to be utterly absurd but it

994
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,079
is precisely within this Paradox that we

995
00:46:11,079 --> 00:46:14,880
find a cosmic revelation of world making

996
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,720
and world unmaking immensity one which

997
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:20,720
would condition the metamorphosis which

998
00:46:20,720 --> 00:46:23,240
we see in the European Renaissance and

999
00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:25,079
by extension would condition the

1000
00:46:25,079 --> 00:46:27,440
eventual emergence of mod

1001
00:46:27,440 --> 00:46:31,200
as such here we must ask ourselves what

1002
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,200
exactly could be the meaning of this

1003
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,880
archetypal Paradox within which the

1004
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:38,480
highest transcendental power is revealed

1005
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,800
to be most fully realized within the

1006
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,599
destitute life and brutal execution of a

1007
00:46:45,599 --> 00:46:48,200
vagabond how exactly could it be that

1008
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:50,559
the highest value which animates the

1009
00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:53,640
cosmos as a whole could find its most

1010
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,119
ultimate expression in The Human

1011
00:46:56,119 --> 00:47:00,440
Experience of imminent life and death

1012
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:02,599
building upon the insights of Hegel

1013
00:47:02,599 --> 00:47:05,359
regarding being nothingness and their

1014
00:47:05,359 --> 00:47:07,559
intrinsic relationship to human

1015
00:47:07,559 --> 00:47:10,200
awareness the Slovenian philosopher

1016
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:13,880
slavo zek describes human subjectivity

1017
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,800
as quote a void of self-relating

1018
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,319
negativity human awareness itself that

1019
00:47:20,319 --> 00:47:23,160
is to say is entirely lacking in

1020
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:26,079
formative contents and is therefore a

1021
00:47:26,079 --> 00:47:28,720
kind of iness which is only able to

1022
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:32,040
achieve a kind of Quasi existence in a

1023
00:47:32,040 --> 00:47:35,119
strictly relational manner this might

1024
00:47:35,119 --> 00:47:37,359
seem to be yet another impossibly

1025
00:47:37,359 --> 00:47:40,800
paradoxical claim we postc cartesians

1026
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:43,119
tend to regard our Consciousness as that

1027
00:47:43,119 --> 00:47:45,559
which is most certain and most

1028
00:47:45,559 --> 00:47:48,400
definitively real yet if we begin to

1029
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,880
strip away the various contents of our

1030
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,920
awareness in search of pure awareness

1031
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:57,000
itself what we find much like in Hegel

1032
00:47:57,000 --> 00:48:01,079
quest for Pure being is in fact pure

1033
00:48:01,079 --> 00:48:03,920
nothingness zek further elaborates by

1034
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:06,000
building upon the insights of yet

1035
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,119
another German phenomenologist Johan

1036
00:48:09,119 --> 00:48:11,680
fika building upon the insights of

1037
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:14,280
Emanuel Kant fcta tells us that

1038
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:18,319
subjectivity is a kind of recursive

1039
00:48:18,319 --> 00:48:20,800
self-positing the conceptual contents of

1040
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,839
the thought I am are characterized

1041
00:48:23,839 --> 00:48:27,559
exclusively by self-referentiality

1042
00:48:27,559 --> 00:48:30,480
the I which is being referred to is in

1043
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:35,480
fact the thought of I am the I amness is

1044
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:39,599
in effect a self-generative loop but zek

1045
00:48:39,599 --> 00:48:42,200
then introduces a hegelian complication

1046
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:45,240
to fic his thought in order for this I

1047
00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:48,640
amness to point towards itself it must

1048
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:51,720
somehow delineate itself in contrast to

1049
00:48:51,720 --> 00:48:55,880
that which it is not the eye of I amness

1050
00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:58,880
can only be comprehensible to itself and

1051
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,160
therefore actualized in so far as it

1052
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,920
implicates an otherness which it can be

1053
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,160
set against in a manner which is very

1054
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,440
similar to what we see within hegel's

1055
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:11,599
Master Slave

1056
00:49:11,599 --> 00:49:14,640
dialectic the void of subjectivity

1057
00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:18,359
effectively negates itself into being by

1058
00:49:18,359 --> 00:49:22,240
negating its own identity with otherness

1059
00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:25,240
the pure homogeneous Oneness of

1060
00:49:25,240 --> 00:49:28,599
otherness is car carved into as it were

1061
00:49:28,599 --> 00:49:31,160
thus forming the membrane through which

1062
00:49:31,160 --> 00:49:33,440
the subject is able to achieve

1063
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,880
ontological definition subjectivity is

1064
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,960
therefore a negation of negation a whole

1065
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:43,760
as it were within the purely negative

1066
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:46,440
emptiness of the kora's

1067
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:49,799
formlessness subjectivity is as s tells

1068
00:49:49,799 --> 00:49:54,119
us less than nothing this negation of

1069
00:49:54,119 --> 00:49:56,240
nothingness then gives rise to the most

1070
00:49:56,240 --> 00:50:00,200
fun mental polarity of existence that of

1071
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:03,359
outer space and Inner Space the

1072
00:50:03,359 --> 00:50:05,680
corporeal and the

1073
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,559
noetic one piece of this puzzle remains

1074
00:50:08,559 --> 00:50:11,000
yet missing however and that is the

1075
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,640
distinction between subjectivity and

1076
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,160
pure awareness itself in order for the

1077
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,280
subjectivity of I amness to actually

1078
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,440
experience its own

1079
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:24,799
self-positing it must be characterized

1080
00:50:24,799 --> 00:50:27,640
by a receptivity which can facilitate

1081
00:50:27,640 --> 00:50:30,160
such reflection in other words

1082
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,680
subjectivity cannot generate its own

1083
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,920
experientiality whole cloth from

1084
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:39,000
inanimate non-c Consciousness there must

1085
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,720
already be a background of pre

1086
00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:44,799
subjective experience which subjectivity

1087
00:50:44,799 --> 00:50:48,559
can carve itself out of in order for

1088
00:50:48,559 --> 00:50:51,400
private internal experience to be

1089
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:54,000
possible the membrane of subjective

1090
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,640
interiority must come to being within a

1091
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:57,920
field of

1092
00:50:57,920 --> 00:51:00,040
transpersonal

1093
00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:03,119
awareness receptivity requires

1094
00:51:03,119 --> 00:51:05,880
formlessness a mirror is able to reflect

1095
00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:08,280
images precisely due to the fact that it

1096
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,640
does not project an image of its own

1097
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,079
surface the surface of a mirror is

1098
00:51:13,079 --> 00:51:16,440
immensely smooth homogeneous and thus

1099
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:19,079
there is very little texture which can

1100
00:51:19,079 --> 00:51:22,319
conflict with images deflected by it it

1101
00:51:22,319 --> 00:51:25,079
is the very formlessness of the mirror's

1102
00:51:25,079 --> 00:51:27,760
surface which allows for such

1103
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:30,319
reflection the notion of subjective

1104
00:51:30,319 --> 00:51:32,359
awareness has become so thoroughly

1105
00:51:32,359 --> 00:51:34,799
centralized within modern Consciousness

1106
00:51:34,799 --> 00:51:36,839
that it is almost impossible for us to

1107
00:51:36,839 --> 00:51:39,520
imagine just how recent this notion

1108
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:42,440
actually is if you ask a person what

1109
00:51:42,440 --> 00:51:44,720
they believe themselves to be most

1110
00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:46,920
fundamentally they will likely tell you

1111
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:49,559
that they are their Consciousness that

1112
00:51:49,559 --> 00:51:53,359
they are the Inner Space of personal

1113
00:51:53,359 --> 00:51:55,359
experientiality within which the

1114
00:51:55,359 --> 00:51:58,040
contents of their experience are able to

1115
00:51:58,040 --> 00:51:59,440
come to

1116
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,680
presence returning once again to

1117
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:04,920
classical platonic philosophy we find no

1118
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,240
such notion of subjective awareness

1119
00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:10,280
Plato's metaphysical anatomy of the

1120
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,799
human organism includes the body which

1121
00:52:12,799 --> 00:52:14,640
makes contact with the realm of

1122
00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,240
appearance and The Noose which makes

1123
00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:20,240
contact with the world of the forms but

1124
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:22,440
nowhere in traditional platonic thought

1125
00:52:22,440 --> 00:52:25,000
do we find the notion of a private

1126
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,400
internal receptacle of experiences which

1127
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,319
we could equivocate with the modern

1128
00:52:30,319 --> 00:52:31,839
notion of

1129
00:52:31,839 --> 00:52:34,520
subjectivity within platonic cosmology

1130
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,520
the human soul is itself a kind of form

1131
00:52:37,520 --> 00:52:41,160
not an inner space or receptacle within

1132
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,280
Which experiences of form can occur

1133
00:52:44,280 --> 00:52:47,119
there is no I amness within traditional

1134
00:52:47,119 --> 00:52:50,880
platonic philosophy at least not

1135
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:53,920
explicitly a fish which lives its entire

1136
00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,799
life within water is not going to regard

1137
00:52:56,799 --> 00:53:00,280
water as a distinct object of concern it

1138
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:03,160
is simply a given within the fish's

1139
00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,280
World likewise within classical platonic

1140
00:53:06,280 --> 00:53:08,920
philosophy awareness as such is never

1141
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,160
regarded as an aspect of reality which

1142
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:14,680
is distinct from being itself it is only

1143
00:53:14,680 --> 00:53:17,240
after the subjectivistic shift of the

1144
00:53:17,240 --> 00:53:19,599
Renaissance period that Western thought

1145
00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:21,559
could come to regard

1146
00:53:21,559 --> 00:53:23,760
experientiality as something which might

1147
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:26,119
not simply be a given of existence

1148
00:53:26,119 --> 00:53:29,520
itself self only after the discovery of

1149
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,359
private inner awareness were we able to

1150
00:53:32,359 --> 00:53:34,200
call into question whether such

1151
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,920
awareness existed beyond the boundary of

1152
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:38,720
our own

1153
00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:40,720
subjectivity returning again to the

1154
00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:42,960
Renaissance it is precisely such an

1155
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:45,119
inner space that we find coming to

1156
00:53:45,119 --> 00:53:48,200
presence within perspectival art here we

1157
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,280
find that human subjectivity is coming

1158
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:53,799
to experience itself as an inner sanctum

1159
00:53:53,799 --> 00:53:56,720
of personal subjectivity with within the

1160
00:53:56,720 --> 00:53:58,960
metaphysics of Renee deart we find this

1161
00:53:58,960 --> 00:54:01,079
transformation of awareness given

1162
00:54:01,079 --> 00:54:04,640
explicit articulation deart transforms

1163
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:07,480
the platonic duality of form and

1164
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,240
appearance into the modern duality of

1165
00:54:10,240 --> 00:54:13,160
mind and matter within which mind is

1166
00:54:13,160 --> 00:54:15,839
conceptualized as an inner space of

1167
00:54:15,839 --> 00:54:18,559
subjective awareness and matter is

1168
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:21,319
characterized by extension through

1169
00:54:21,319 --> 00:54:25,480
physical outer space perspectival art

1170
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:27,799
implicates a kind kind of horizontal

1171
00:54:27,799 --> 00:54:30,880
pyramid within which the Apex of this

1172
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,599
invisible pyramid vanishes into the

1173
00:54:33,599 --> 00:54:36,200
focal point of the subjective field of

1174
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,640
view and the body of the pyramid

1175
00:54:38,640 --> 00:54:41,559
radiates outward into an indefinite

1176
00:54:41,559 --> 00:54:44,680
space an expansive emptiness within

1177
00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:47,000
which subjective Sensations might come

1178
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:48,319
to be

1179
00:54:48,319 --> 00:54:50,680
disclosed the traditional platonic

1180
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,680
cosmology is itself a kind of pyramid

1181
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:55,960
but within platonism the Apex of this

1182
00:54:55,960 --> 00:54:58,839
pyramid is understood to be the monad or

1183
00:54:58,839 --> 00:55:02,079
source of ultimate transcendental Unity

1184
00:55:02,079 --> 00:55:04,040
the world of appearance and thus

1185
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,000
imminent sensation was understood to be

1186
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,119
the bottommost stratum of this

1187
00:55:09,119 --> 00:55:11,720
metaphysical hierarchy that which was

1188
00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:14,079
furthest removed from the ultimate

1189
00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:16,799
Transcendence of the monad the

1190
00:55:16,799 --> 00:55:18,839
perspectival shift of the Renaissance

1191
00:55:18,839 --> 00:55:20,760
would thus seem to have taken this

1192
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,640
platonic pyramid and transformed it into

1193
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:26,920
a bizarre parody of itself one in which

1194
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,839
the Nexus of imminent subjectivity has

1195
00:55:29,839 --> 00:55:32,839
come to replace the transcendental monad

1196
00:55:32,839 --> 00:55:34,920
as the cosmological

1197
00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:37,280
ultimate the 20th century German

1198
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:39,960
phenomenologist Martin heiger comes to

1199
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:41,720
precisely this conclusion in his

1200
00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:44,559
analysis of Renee decart's metaphysical

1201
00:55:44,559 --> 00:55:46,760
framework decart's philosophy was

1202
00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:50,000
grounded in a radically subjectivistic

1203
00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:53,079
skepticism one which reconceptualized

1204
00:55:53,079 --> 00:55:57,160
truth as subjective certainty deart saw

1205
00:55:57,160 --> 00:55:59,599
that which was most fundamental and most

1206
00:55:59,599 --> 00:56:02,640
real as that which was most indubitable

1207
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:05,039
to his own Consciousness and thus

1208
00:56:05,039 --> 00:56:06,760
attempted to ground his entire

1209
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:09,000
philosophical Enterprise within the

1210
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:10,880
security of his own

1211
00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:13,559
self-awareness within the notorious I

1212
00:56:13,559 --> 00:56:17,720
think therefore I am piger tells us that

1213
00:56:17,720 --> 00:56:20,680
within decart's inward turn what we see

1214
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,319
is a resituating of the ontological

1215
00:56:23,319 --> 00:56:25,760
ground of becoming which the Greeks

1216
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:28,039
would have referred to as the

1217
00:56:28,039 --> 00:56:30,920
hypopyon that which is most underlying

1218
00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,520
of all existing things and which the

1219
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,599
properties of existing things are able

1220
00:56:35,599 --> 00:56:39,359
to adhere within the being of beings as

1221
00:56:39,359 --> 00:56:41,920
it were throughout the presocratic and

1222
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,359
neoplatonic traditions the hypopyon

1223
00:56:44,359 --> 00:56:46,640
would come to manifest in a variety of

1224
00:56:46,640 --> 00:56:49,200
ways from the Eternal fires of

1225
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,280
heraclitus to the Kora of Plato

1226
00:56:52,280 --> 00:56:54,520
eventually becoming the primma Materia

1227
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:56,480
of Aristotle and subsequent qu

1228
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:58,160
alchemical

1229
00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:00,640
Traditions within the subjectivistic

1230
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:02,599
shift of the Renaissance period which we

1231
00:57:02,599 --> 00:57:05,280
see explicated in the works of decart

1232
00:57:05,280 --> 00:57:07,960
this hypoy comes to be finally

1233
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:10,880
identified although somewhat covertly

1234
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:13,799
with subjective Human Experience the

1235
00:57:13,799 --> 00:57:16,319
underlying Paradox of transcendence and

1236
00:57:16,319 --> 00:57:18,960
imminence comes to collapse into itself

1237
00:57:18,960 --> 00:57:22,039
as the lowest form of imminence private

1238
00:57:22,039 --> 00:57:24,760
subjectivity comes to be implicitly

1239
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:27,200
identified with the role of the highest

1240
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:30,839
form of ultimate transcendental Unity as

1241
00:57:30,839 --> 00:57:32,640
we shall see this metaphysical

1242
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:34,880
transformation which we see taking place

1243
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:37,200
during the Renaissance period is a

1244
00:57:37,200 --> 00:57:40,000
direct and necessary consequence of the

1245
00:57:40,000 --> 00:57:42,960
cosmic Paradox which we find within the

1246
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:45,000
Incarnation of

1247
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,440
Christ although we do not find an

1248
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:49,880
explicit notion of pure awareness or

1249
00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,200
subjectivity as such within traditional

1250
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:54,920
platonic philosophy we do find a notion

1251
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:57,520
of pure awareness within indic

1252
00:57:57,520 --> 00:57:59,839
philosophy within indic metaphysics one

1253
00:57:59,839 --> 00:58:02,359
of the most Central Notions is that

1254
00:58:02,359 --> 00:58:06,000
Atman is Brahman that's all individual

1255
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:08,599
entities in the world are in fact outer

1256
00:58:08,599 --> 00:58:11,039
manifestations of the entirely

1257
00:58:11,039 --> 00:58:13,799
transpersonal awareness of Ultimate

1258
00:58:13,799 --> 00:58:16,839
Reality the notion of brahan represents

1259
00:58:16,839 --> 00:58:19,960
an absolutely homogeneous and vacuous

1260
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:23,760
oness a void of pure potentiality as it

1261
00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:26,480
were which is in many ways identic iCal

1262
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,039
to Plato's

1263
00:58:28,039 --> 00:58:30,960
Kora at least on one level we could take

1264
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:32,760
the Life of Christ to represent a

1265
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,240
closing of the Ora boric Loop of

1266
00:58:35,240 --> 00:58:37,200
transcendence and imminence which

1267
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,920
incorporates just such an Insight that

1268
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,280
pure awareness itself is both ultimate

1269
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:46,200
Transcendence and ultimate imminence

1270
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,000
that the ultimate Oneness of the

1271
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,839
transcendental monad is in fact the very

1272
00:58:50,839 --> 00:58:53,599
same ultimate Oneness of the dark

1273
00:58:53,599 --> 00:58:56,240
groundless ground which is in fact the

1274
00:58:56,240 --> 00:58:58,000
void of

1275
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,160
experientiality christic metaphysics

1276
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:01,760
however would come to diverge from the

1277
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,160
indic tradition in one absolutely

1278
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,480
fundamental way although indic

1279
00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,480
metaphysics is grounded in a notion of

1280
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:11,240
ultimate Oneness indic philosophy does

1281
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:14,400
not contain a notion of ultimate unity

1282
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,359
which preserves difference indic

1283
00:59:17,359 --> 00:59:19,760
cosmology is cyclic in that all things

1284
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:21,839
emerge from the same source of

1285
00:59:21,839 --> 00:59:23,920
undifferentiated Oneness and the

1286
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,520
ultimate Destiny of all things is to

1287
00:59:26,520 --> 00:59:29,359
Simply return to this state of

1288
00:59:29,359 --> 00:59:31,319
undifferentiated

1289
00:59:31,319 --> 00:59:34,119
homogeneity we do find a polarity of

1290
00:59:34,119 --> 00:59:36,640
transcendence and imminence within indic

1291
00:59:36,640 --> 00:59:39,240
philosophy but within indic philosophy

1292
00:59:39,240 --> 00:59:41,119
this is understood as a distinction

1293
00:59:41,119 --> 00:59:44,520
between Oneness and separation not the

1294
00:59:44,520 --> 00:59:46,599
distinction between form and appearance

1295
00:59:46,599 --> 00:59:48,720
or between light and darkness which we

1296
00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:51,680
find within the platonic tradition the

1297
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,440
goal of index spirituality therefore is

1298
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:57,559
in transcending the losery nature of

1299
00:59:57,559 --> 00:59:59,440
separation and

1300
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:01,760
differentiation such that the individual

1301
01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:04,359
oton can be liberated from the Veil of

1302
01:00:04,359 --> 01:00:07,520
Maya and samsara and reunite with its

1303
01:00:07,520 --> 01:00:10,119
origin through the dissolution of

1304
01:00:10,119 --> 01:00:13,119
differences indic cosmology is thus an

1305
01:00:13,119 --> 01:00:15,720
infinite repetitive cycle of

1306
01:00:15,720 --> 01:00:18,079
differentiation and eventual

1307
01:00:18,079 --> 01:00:20,319
disintegration into the underlying

1308
01:00:20,319 --> 01:00:22,039
Oneness of

1309
01:00:22,039 --> 01:00:24,520
brahan within Western metaphysics

1310
01:00:24,520 --> 01:00:26,039
however the understanding of

1311
01:00:26,039 --> 01:00:28,680
Transcendence as form rather than

1312
01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:31,119
homogeneous Oneness led to a very

1313
01:00:31,119 --> 01:00:33,240
different understanding of the highest

1314
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:36,000
value of existence rather than the

1315
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:39,119
cosmic telon or formative attractor

1316
01:00:39,119 --> 01:00:41,520
being seen as the return to

1317
01:00:41,520 --> 01:00:44,000
undifferentiated Oneness the ultimate

1318
01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,000
form of the monad could instead be

1319
01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,960
conceptualized as an ultimate unity

1320
01:00:48,960 --> 01:00:51,480
which was able to maintain distinctions

1321
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:54,240
within itself while synthesizing such

1322
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:56,880
distinct entities into a greater

1323
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,640
wholeness to borrow a phrase from Alfred

1324
01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,680
North Whitehead the many become one and

1325
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:05,960
are increased by one the one which the

1326
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:09,000
many are increased by is the unity which

1327
01:01:09,000 --> 01:01:11,599
they achieve through their Mutual

1328
01:01:11,599 --> 01:01:14,200
integration the one which the entire

1329
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:17,000
Cosmos is increased by through such

1330
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,680
integration is the monad the monad is

1331
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:23,960
both the form of unity as well as the

1332
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,559
actualized unity which the the cosmos

1333
01:01:26,559 --> 01:01:30,480
comes to achieve through its continual

1334
01:01:30,480 --> 01:01:32,280
self-generation within the Christian

1335
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:34,480
narrative it is not only the raw

1336
01:01:34,480 --> 01:01:37,079
transpersonal awareness of the Kora

1337
01:01:37,079 --> 01:01:39,599
which is redeemed but also the

1338
01:01:39,599 --> 01:01:42,240
particularity of human

1339
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,160
individuality the vacuous less than

1340
01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:47,400
nothingness of individual

1341
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:50,000
subjectivity the mystery of gol gotha

1342
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:52,200
reveals that the separate subjectivities

1343
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,440
of individual human beings and by

1344
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,200
extension the imminent world of embodied

1345
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,920
existence itself does not stand in

1346
01:01:59,920 --> 01:02:02,480
contradiction to the ultimate unity of

1347
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:05,200
the transcendental monad rather we

1348
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:08,119
instead see that the cosmic attractor

1349
01:02:08,119 --> 01:02:11,039
the will of the Divine is a will unto

1350
01:02:11,039 --> 01:02:14,240
the generation of an ultimate harmonic

1351
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:17,200
Unity which not only includes but in

1352
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:20,640
fact necessitates difference and

1353
01:02:20,640 --> 01:02:23,760
separation the polarity of consonant and

1354
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:26,480
dissonance in musicology can help to

1355
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:29,640
elucidate this distinction consonant is

1356
01:02:29,640 --> 01:02:32,720
a principle of order while dissonance is

1357
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:35,720
a principle of disorder the most

1358
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,599
consonant musical interval is the Unison

1359
01:02:38,599 --> 01:02:41,520
in which two identical notes are played

1360
01:02:41,520 --> 01:02:43,880
simultaneously the second most consonant

1361
01:02:43,880 --> 01:02:46,359
interval is the octave in which one note

1362
01:02:46,359 --> 01:02:48,880
is exactly double the frequency of the

1363
01:02:48,880 --> 01:02:50,920
other as we continue to examine

1364
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:52,839
different intervals we will see that

1365
01:02:52,839 --> 01:02:55,480
greater separation results in Greater

1366
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:58,279
distance an ultimate consonants

1367
01:02:58,279 --> 01:03:00,839
therefore would amount to a single note

1368
01:03:00,839 --> 01:03:03,039
which is accompanied by nothing and

1369
01:03:03,039 --> 01:03:06,640
which never changes a simple solid tone

1370
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:09,400
which we could hardly even describe as

1371
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,640
music traditional indict music is

1372
01:03:12,640 --> 01:03:15,200
monophonic a single Melody is played in

1373
01:03:15,200 --> 01:03:17,119
which the Melody deviates from an

1374
01:03:17,119 --> 01:03:19,960
initial tonic note and explores a given

1375
01:03:19,960 --> 01:03:22,200
scale before eventually resolving back

1376
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:24,880
to the tonic symbolically we could

1377
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:26,680
understand this as the Oneness of

1378
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,760
Brahman separating into the various non-

1379
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:31,520
tonic notes which represent the

1380
01:03:31,520 --> 01:03:34,400
individual beings of the created World

1381
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:37,240
which then ultimately returned to

1382
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:40,000
brahan Western music however has instead

1383
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,880
tended towards polyphonic Harmony in

1384
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:44,839
which multiple Melodies are played

1385
01:03:44,839 --> 01:03:47,319
simultaneously so as to form chords and

1386
01:03:47,319 --> 01:03:49,760
chord progressions over the course of

1387
01:03:49,760 --> 01:03:51,960
Western musical history composers have

1388
01:03:51,960 --> 01:03:54,440
attempted to create ever more intense

1389
01:03:54,440 --> 01:03:57,039
forms of musical morphology by

1390
01:03:57,039 --> 01:03:59,559
incorporating ever greater forms of

1391
01:03:59,559 --> 01:04:02,640
difference into their compositions three

1392
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,119
note triotic cords would become the much

1393
01:04:05,119 --> 01:04:08,079
larger chords of jazz Harmony and cordal

1394
01:04:08,079 --> 01:04:10,520
Harmony chord progressions would become

1395
01:04:10,520 --> 01:04:12,480
increasingly elaborate and would begin

1396
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,559
to transition through a variety of

1397
01:04:14,559 --> 01:04:17,160
distinct key signatures within a single

1398
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:20,000
piece what we see expressed here is an

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01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:22,200
absolutely Central feature of the

1400
01:04:22,200 --> 01:04:24,680
western Collective unconscious the

1401
01:04:24,680 --> 01:04:26,480
Insight that the old UL imate Cosmic

1402
01:04:26,480 --> 01:04:29,200
attractor is not a will towards

1403
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:31,839
homogeneity but it is in fact a will

1404
01:04:31,839 --> 01:04:35,160
towards the intensification of harmonic

1405
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,599
Beauty through the unification of

1406
01:04:37,599 --> 01:04:41,799
differences into organic holes this will

1407
01:04:41,799 --> 01:04:44,799
unto numinosity as I have described it

1408
01:04:44,799 --> 01:04:48,119
demands separation and differentiation

1409
01:04:48,119 --> 01:04:51,079
as ever greater forms of Separation come

1410
01:04:51,079 --> 01:04:53,720
to be more thoroughly integrated into

1411
01:04:53,720 --> 01:04:56,880
the cosmic Symphony this intensity of

1412
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,520
Unity comes to actualize itself in a

1413
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:02,119
compositional dance of light and

1414
01:05:02,119 --> 01:05:06,799
darkness Order and Chaos form and

1415
01:05:06,799 --> 01:05:08,920
formlessness what The Narrative of

1416
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:11,240
Christ then illustrates is that human

1417
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:14,160
subjectivity is of absolutely central

1418
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:16,400
significance within this dialectical

1419
01:05:16,400 --> 01:05:19,119
Journey the I amness of human

1420
01:05:19,119 --> 01:05:21,920
consciousness is the Apex of separation

1421
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,119
and alienation from the cosmos itself it

1422
01:05:25,119 --> 01:05:27,799
is the ultimate abandonment of Human

1423
01:05:27,799 --> 01:05:30,760
doine by being to once again borrow from

1424
01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:33,960
Martin heiger this ultimate separation

1425
01:05:33,960 --> 01:05:37,160
of subjective and Cosmic awareness

1426
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:40,200
despite the agony of such alienation

1427
01:05:40,200 --> 01:05:43,119
allows for the possibility that human

1428
01:05:43,119 --> 01:05:45,799
individuality might come to embody the

1429
01:05:45,799 --> 01:05:49,200
powers of creative and moral Freedom

1430
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:51,640
which were once attributed exclusively

1431
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:52,880
to the

1432
01:05:52,880 --> 01:05:56,079
Divine it is through the achievement of

1433
01:05:56,079 --> 01:05:57,799
such Freedom then that human

1434
01:05:57,799 --> 01:06:00,640
subjectivity is able to resolve the

1435
01:06:00,640 --> 01:06:03,119
agonizing dissonance of its own

1436
01:06:03,119 --> 01:06:06,400
alienation by reintegrating itself with

1437
01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:08,720
the cosmic Symphony through the

1438
01:06:08,720 --> 01:06:10,880
harmonization of such ultimate

1439
01:06:10,880 --> 01:06:13,760
dissonance ultimate intensity of

1440
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:17,279
numinosity is thereby achieved it is

1441
01:06:17,279 --> 01:06:20,559
through the mystery of gotha therefore

1442
01:06:20,559 --> 01:06:23,039
that the path Forward Unto the destiny

1443
01:06:23,039 --> 01:06:26,520
of individual human subjectivity was

1444
01:06:26,520 --> 01:06:29,359
disclosed nevertheless the fundamental

1445
01:06:29,359 --> 01:06:31,640
tension between light and darkness

1446
01:06:31,640 --> 01:06:34,000
within the core of the human psyche

1447
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,640
would yet stand in need of

1448
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:38,920
resolution westerners would begin a

1449
01:06:38,920 --> 01:06:41,359
process of increasing

1450
01:06:41,359 --> 01:06:43,720
subjectivization as the Christian Mythos

1451
01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:45,760
began to reorganize the Western

1452
01:06:45,760 --> 01:06:47,640
Collective unconscious over the course

1453
01:06:47,640 --> 01:06:50,200
of the Middle Ages coming to an Apex

1454
01:06:50,200 --> 01:06:52,520
during the Renaissance and early modern

1455
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:54,760
periods throughout these historical

1456
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:56,760
transformations what we see is the

1457
01:06:56,760 --> 01:07:00,680
gradual absorption of I amness from the

1458
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:04,359
cosmos as such and into the human psyche

1459
01:07:04,359 --> 01:07:06,359
such that human consciousness itself

1460
01:07:06,359 --> 01:07:09,680
would become a cavernous Inner Space of

1461
01:07:09,680 --> 01:07:11,520
self-reflective

1462
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:13,960
subjectivity as this process unfolded

1463
01:07:13,960 --> 01:07:15,680
this would result in an Ever greater

1464
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,400
intensification of the human ego's

1465
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:21,039
individuality as well as its creative

1466
01:07:21,039 --> 01:07:23,839
and moral agency however this process

1467
01:07:23,839 --> 01:07:26,160
would also result in ever greater

1468
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:28,960
alienation of human subjectivity from

1469
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:32,559
the cosmos the disclosure of private

1470
01:07:32,559 --> 01:07:35,119
interior awareness open the possibility

1471
01:07:35,119 --> 01:07:37,960
of seeing Consciousness itself as a

1472
01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:41,200
feature of humans alone among all other

1473
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:43,480
organisms as we see in decart's

1474
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:45,640
conjecture that all other plants and

1475
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:48,160
animals are merely

1476
01:07:48,160 --> 01:07:50,720
automatons similarly this process would

1477
01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:52,720
also result in human beings coming to

1478
01:07:52,720 --> 01:07:56,279
see forms themselves as project C of the

1479
01:07:56,279 --> 01:07:58,920
human mind rather than contents of the

1480
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:01,880
world itself a process which began with

1481
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:04,440
the nominalism of medieval Scholastic

1482
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:08,359
philosophy during the 13th century ideas

1483
01:08:08,359 --> 01:08:11,319
came to be understood as mere categories

1484
01:08:11,319 --> 01:08:13,400
which the human mind used to

1485
01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:15,920
intellectualize nature rather than being

1486
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:18,120
forms which actually directed The

1487
01:08:18,120 --> 01:08:21,799
formative processes of nature in various

1488
01:08:21,799 --> 01:08:23,880
ways therefore Western Consciousness

1489
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:25,560
would increasingly come to find it

1490
01:08:25,560 --> 01:08:28,719
itself within a Dean Animated World of

1491
01:08:28,719 --> 01:08:31,920
mere matter even before the Advent of

1492
01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:34,319
mechanistic materialism and atheism

1493
01:08:34,319 --> 01:08:37,560
during the 19th century 17th and 18th

1494
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:40,080
century deism had already come to see

1495
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,560
the natural world as an inanimate

1496
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:45,040
Clockwork which was designed and set in

1497
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:46,920
motion by a God who was now

1498
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:48,799
conceptualized as a sort of

1499
01:08:48,799 --> 01:08:52,000
transcendental engineer without such

1500
01:08:52,000 --> 01:08:53,920
Divine engineering there would be

1501
01:08:53,920 --> 01:08:55,960
nothing more than void

1502
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:58,920
darkness and Chaos which were of course

1503
01:08:58,920 --> 01:09:00,759
regarded as standing in direct

1504
01:09:00,759 --> 01:09:03,719
opposition to The Virtuous order imposed

1505
01:09:03,719 --> 01:09:06,920
by Divine Light these Transformations

1506
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:09,359
illustrate that as the individuality of

1507
01:09:09,359 --> 01:09:11,759
the human ego came to further develop in

1508
01:09:11,759 --> 01:09:13,839
the wake of Christianity human

1509
01:09:13,839 --> 01:09:16,279
subjectivity came to experience an Ever

1510
01:09:16,279 --> 01:09:19,400
more acute sense of alienation from the

1511
01:09:19,400 --> 01:09:22,000
natural world and from the fathomless

1512
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:24,960
Kora which Lies Beneath and within the

1513
01:09:24,960 --> 01:09:28,199
natural world as the mechanistic dualism

1514
01:09:28,199 --> 01:09:30,920
of cartisian philosophy gave way to the

1515
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,719
thoroughly sterilized world of 19th

1516
01:09:33,719 --> 01:09:36,600
century physicalist monism the human

1517
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:39,159
relationship with death would likewise

1518
01:09:39,159 --> 01:09:41,159
become increasingly

1519
01:09:41,159 --> 01:09:43,679
antagonistic death came to be seen not

1520
01:09:43,679 --> 01:09:46,839
as a process of spiritual transformation

1521
01:09:46,839 --> 01:09:49,440
but rather as the mere cessation of

1522
01:09:49,440 --> 01:09:52,199
Consciousness the mere plunging of human

1523
01:09:52,199 --> 01:09:54,560
awareness into the incomprehensible

1524
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:57,480
non-being of the Kora from which there

1525
01:09:57,480 --> 01:10:00,840
was no possibility of escape death had

1526
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:03,520
simply become non-c comprehensible to

1527
01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,360
the modern psyche and as such death

1528
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:09,120
anxiety and its various pathological

1529
01:10:09,120 --> 01:10:12,080
outgrowths came to plague the modern

1530
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:14,640
world the sheer irony within this

1531
01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:16,800
narrative cannot be understated the

1532
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,760
phases of human individuation which

1533
01:10:18,760 --> 01:10:20,679
followed the Christ event were set in

1534
01:10:20,679 --> 01:10:23,840
motion precisely by the oror closure of

1535
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,040
transcendental light and imminent

1536
01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,400
Darkness within the Incarnation of the

1537
01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,080
cosmic logos furthermore the

1538
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:33,520
subjectivization of human selfhood was

1539
01:10:33,520 --> 01:10:35,960
itself a process by which the Inner

1540
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:39,239
Space or inner void of human awareness

1541
01:10:39,239 --> 01:10:42,120
came to be disclosed yet even as the

1542
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:44,400
inner darkness of human subjectivity

1543
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,960
came to be revealed our relationship

1544
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:49,440
with outer Darkness came to be one of

1545
01:10:49,440 --> 01:10:52,760
ever increasing alienation ambivalence

1546
01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:56,400
and indeed violent coercion

1547
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:59,199
within his 1954 essay the question

1548
01:10:59,199 --> 01:11:01,800
concerning technology Martin heiger

1549
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:03,640
attempts to illustrate the manner in

1550
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:06,360
which the essence of modern technology

1551
01:11:06,360 --> 01:11:08,600
is fundamentally distinct from all

1552
01:11:08,600 --> 01:11:12,520
premodern forms of Technics here haiger

1553
01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:14,760
builds upon his distinction between

1554
01:11:14,760 --> 01:11:18,239
zanden height the ready at hand and

1555
01:11:18,239 --> 01:11:21,520
vorhanden height the present at hand

1556
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:23,080
within heger's thought these two

1557
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:25,480
principles represent two distinct

1558
01:11:25,480 --> 01:11:28,320
orientations or attunements of human

1559
01:11:28,320 --> 01:11:30,480
consciousness within the world and

1560
01:11:30,480 --> 01:11:33,480
consequently two distinct modalities of

1561
01:11:33,480 --> 01:11:36,560
world disclosure which are facilitated

1562
01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:37,600
by such

1563
01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:39,719
Attunement we can understand this

1564
01:11:39,719 --> 01:11:41,920
distinction by examining a simple tool

1565
01:11:41,920 --> 01:11:44,199
such as a hammer when a carpenter is

1566
01:11:44,199 --> 01:11:46,199
using a hammer in his daily work the

1567
01:11:46,199 --> 01:11:48,600
hammer is disclosed in the mode of the

1568
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:52,360
ready at hand zanden height in so far as

1569
01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:54,520
the hammer is doing its job effectively

1570
01:11:54,520 --> 01:11:57,000
and the carpenter knows what he is doing

1571
01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:00,000
the hammer effectively dissolves into

1572
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,560
the background of the life world which

1573
01:12:02,560 --> 01:12:05,880
it is interwoven with the hammer becomes

1574
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:08,679
transparent as it were and it is able to

1575
01:12:08,679 --> 01:12:11,600
participate in its World in a seamlessly

1576
01:12:11,600 --> 01:12:15,120
organic manner if the hammer breaks or

1577
01:12:15,120 --> 01:12:17,840
otherwise is unable to perform its task

1578
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:20,040
effectively then we may then begin to

1579
01:12:20,040 --> 01:12:22,280
attune ourselves towards the hammer in a

1580
01:12:22,280 --> 01:12:25,480
more objectifying way we begin to to

1581
01:12:25,480 --> 01:12:28,159
abstract the hammer from its ontological

1582
01:12:28,159 --> 01:12:30,840
ecology such that we are regarding it as

1583
01:12:30,840 --> 01:12:33,920
an independent isolated entity and

1584
01:12:33,920 --> 01:12:36,719
moreover as a problem to be solved we

1585
01:12:36,719 --> 01:12:38,760
are now disclosing the hammer in the

1586
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:42,280
modality of the present at hand Vanden

1587
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:45,239
height and as such the hammer is excised

1588
01:12:45,239 --> 01:12:47,520
from its life world and is rendered as

1589
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:50,199
an inert object which is to be subjected

1590
01:12:50,199 --> 01:12:52,760
to the calculative instrumental

1591
01:12:52,760 --> 01:12:55,679
reasoning of human artifice

1592
01:12:55,679 --> 01:12:57,000
within the question concerning

1593
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,280
technology heiger shows the manner by

1594
01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:02,000
which modern technology is not merely a

1595
01:13:02,000 --> 01:13:04,760
means to an end but rather modern

1596
01:13:04,760 --> 01:13:07,159
technology has effectively come to be an

1597
01:13:07,159 --> 01:13:10,239
organ of perception which discloses the

1598
01:13:10,239 --> 01:13:13,159
world exclusively in the modality of the

1599
01:13:13,159 --> 01:13:16,280
present at hand as this occurs the world

1600
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:19,679
comes to be inframed such that the only

1601
01:13:19,679 --> 01:13:22,280
aspects of being which come to light are

1602
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:23,920
those which are relevant to the

1603
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:26,159
calculative instrument mentality of

1604
01:13:26,159 --> 01:13:29,120
vorhanden height a simple wooden bridge

1605
01:13:29,120 --> 01:13:30,960
is a kind of technology which allows

1606
01:13:30,960 --> 01:13:33,760
human beings to span a river the bridge

1607
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:36,239
comes to incorporate the river into the

1608
01:13:36,239 --> 01:13:39,159
human life world and it facilitates a

1609
01:13:39,159 --> 01:13:41,400
deepening of our relationship to the

1610
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,719
river we can now gaze down from the

1611
01:13:43,719 --> 01:13:46,159
bridge into the river or fish from the

1612
01:13:46,159 --> 01:13:48,000
river and the river comes to be a kind

1613
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,840
of permeable membrane within the human

1614
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:53,120
life world rather than a boundary

1615
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,840
between the human world and tamed

1616
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,960
Wilderness a hydroelectric Dam by

1617
01:13:58,960 --> 01:14:01,679
contrast completely transforms the

1618
01:14:01,679 --> 01:14:03,920
metaphysical relationship between the

1619
01:14:03,920 --> 01:14:06,560
river and the human life world the

1620
01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:08,560
hydroelectric Dam facilitates an

1621
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,719
orientation towards the river which

1622
01:14:10,719 --> 01:14:13,679
renders the river as a body of resources

1623
01:14:13,679 --> 01:14:16,920
to be extracted from the river comes to

1624
01:14:16,920 --> 01:14:19,920
be inframed such that it manifests

1625
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:23,360
primarily as a standing reserve of power

1626
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:25,719
which can be coercively wield

1627
01:14:25,719 --> 01:14:28,800
the river is thereby

1628
01:14:28,800 --> 01:14:31,760
unworld this orientation of INF framing

1629
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:34,320
attempts to impose calculative

1630
01:14:34,320 --> 01:14:37,360
procedural order upon the world the

1631
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,400
inherent darkness unpredictability and

1632
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:42,679
indeterminacy of the world comes to be

1633
01:14:42,679 --> 01:14:45,960
regarded in a highly adversarial manner

1634
01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:48,520
as the formlessness of embodied

1635
01:14:48,520 --> 01:14:52,040
existence that is the very materiality

1636
01:14:52,040 --> 01:14:54,560
of matter itself comes to be regarded as

1637
01:14:54,560 --> 01:14:57,840
a challenge to be overcome a blemish to

1638
01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:00,400
be polished Away by the incessant March

1639
01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:02,639
of technoscientific

1640
01:15:02,639 --> 01:15:05,679
progress the ideology of mechanistic

1641
01:15:05,679 --> 01:15:07,760
materialism which underlies such

1642
01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:10,719
technology is not an overemphasis on the

1643
01:15:10,719 --> 01:15:13,280
ontological significance of

1644
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:16,159
materiality quite the contrary such

1645
01:15:16,159 --> 01:15:19,880
materialism is ironically a violent war

1646
01:15:19,880 --> 01:15:23,960
on the very materiality of embodied

1647
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:26,239
existence seen within the broader scope

1648
01:15:26,239 --> 01:15:28,360
of our journey we can now begin to see

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clearly that all of these developments

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01:15:30,679 --> 01:15:33,239
are in fact manifestations of the same

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01:15:33,239 --> 01:15:36,400
underlying process one by which the

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01:15:36,400 --> 01:15:38,520
individualization of human consciousness

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01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,760
has resulted in an Ever more acute

1654
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,760
alienation from the dark groundless

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01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:46,440
ground from which all embodied existence

1656
01:15:46,440 --> 01:15:49,719
comes to be born the impulse towards the

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01:15:49,719 --> 01:15:52,960
technological unworld of the world can

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01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:55,400
be seen as a symptom of the very same

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01:15:55,400 --> 01:15:58,000
pathological compulsion which manifests

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01:15:58,000 --> 01:15:59,880
at an individual level as the

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01:15:59,880 --> 01:16:02,760
psychosexual fixations of male serial

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01:16:02,760 --> 01:16:05,719
killers the need to conquer and destroy

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01:16:05,719 --> 01:16:08,360
an archetypal femininity which human

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01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:11,000
beings feel themselves to be abandoned

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01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:14,760
and betrayed by scientific materialism

1666
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:17,239
ironically reveals itself to be

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01:16:17,239 --> 01:16:19,880
precisely the Eraser of embodied

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01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:22,960
materiality through INF framing by which

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01:16:22,960 --> 01:16:25,480
the imminent embodied exper experience

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01:16:25,480 --> 01:16:27,520
of nature comes to be replaced by

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01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:30,440
mathematical abstractions which serve as

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01:16:30,440 --> 01:16:33,440
lifeless imitations and as tools through

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01:16:33,440 --> 01:16:35,760
which the technological domination of

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01:16:35,760 --> 01:16:37,880
the bodily realm can be further

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01:16:37,880 --> 01:16:39,840
facilitated modern science and

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01:16:39,840 --> 01:16:42,280
technology have become unconscious

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01:16:42,280 --> 01:16:45,360
actors which obsessively reenact the

1678
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,520
struggle with Divine darkness which we

1679
01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:49,440
see within the writings of Plato and

1680
01:16:49,440 --> 01:16:52,080
platinus and which we see enacted in an

1681
01:16:52,080 --> 01:16:55,040
even more explicitly archetypal manner

1682
01:16:55,040 --> 01:16:58,080
within the Sumerian myth of Marduk and

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01:16:58,080 --> 01:17:00,960
Tiamat all of Western philosophy is

1684
01:17:00,960 --> 01:17:03,800
indeed footnotes to Plato and in that

1685
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:05,840
sense the entire history of Western

1686
01:17:05,840 --> 01:17:07,760
thought can further be understood as

1687
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:10,880
repeatedly reenacting the dialectical

1688
01:17:10,880 --> 01:17:13,440
dance of light and darkness which we

1689
01:17:13,440 --> 01:17:15,600
find to be the innermost core of the

1690
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,239
platonic tradition seen within the

1691
01:17:18,239 --> 01:17:21,360
context of individuation this dance of

1692
01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:23,840
light and darkness is revealed to be a

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01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:26,800
macrocosmic and indeed cosmogonic

1694
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:29,840
enactment of the ceaseless dialectic of

1695
01:17:29,840 --> 01:17:32,520
masculine and feminine principles

1696
01:17:32,520 --> 01:17:34,920
individuation is a process which begins

1697
01:17:34,920 --> 01:17:38,120
with a catabolic separation one which

1698
01:17:38,120 --> 01:17:41,000
involves the overcoming of Trials the

1699
01:17:41,000 --> 01:17:43,920
endurance of pain and the germination of

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01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:45,800
individuality and

1701
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:48,199
self-efficacy following this separation

1702
01:17:48,199 --> 01:17:51,320
however there must then be a process of

1703
01:17:51,320 --> 01:17:53,520
reintegration through which the powers

1704
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:55,400
cultivated by the soul must be

1705
01:17:55,400 --> 01:17:57,600
harmonized with the world which it was

1706
01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:01,600
cast out of or abandoned by without such

1707
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:04,400
reintegration the alienated ego comes to

1708
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,800
devolve into ever more pathological

1709
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,800
forms in order to complete the cycle of

1710
01:18:10,800 --> 01:18:12,960
collective individuation which we now

1711
01:18:12,960 --> 01:18:15,440
find ourselves within modern human

1712
01:18:15,440 --> 01:18:17,840
subjectivity must come to reintegrate

1713
01:18:17,840 --> 01:18:21,159
itself with the darkness of materiality

1714
01:18:21,159 --> 01:18:23,199
which Western Consciousness including

1715
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:25,840
so-called scientific mat materialism has

1716
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:28,400
been attempting to neutralize dominate

1717
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:30,639
or evade over the course of the past

1718
01:18:30,639 --> 01:18:33,239
several Millennia modern Consciousness

1719
01:18:33,239 --> 01:18:35,960
in other words must come to reintegrate

1720
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:38,560
the hidden forth which has been so long

1721
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:41,120
obscured within the metaphysical Horizon

1722
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:44,520
of triatic completeness in order for the

1723
01:18:44,520 --> 01:18:46,639
crustification of human consciousness to

1724
01:18:46,639 --> 01:18:49,440
be fully realized the human ego must

1725
01:18:49,440 --> 01:18:52,480
reencounter the primordial womb from

1726
01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:56,560
which it was born the ego must be abated

1727
01:18:56,560 --> 01:18:58,760
taking on the formless form of the

1728
01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:01,520
Marian womb such that the light of the

1729
01:19:01,520 --> 01:19:05,199
logos can come to be rekindled within it

1730
01:19:05,199 --> 01:19:08,159
Western neoplatonic Consciousness must

1731
01:19:08,159 --> 01:19:10,560
renegotiate its relationship with the

1732
01:19:10,560 --> 01:19:13,199
cosmic void which ultimately is the

1733
01:19:13,199 --> 01:19:16,280
Longs sought primma Materia christic

1734
01:19:16,280 --> 01:19:18,280
Consciousness must come to see that the

1735
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,480
closed Unity of the Trinity is only able

1736
01:19:21,480 --> 01:19:23,960
to be World generative in relation to

1737
01:19:23,960 --> 01:19:26,840
the boundless lessness of the quaternity

1738
01:19:26,840 --> 01:19:29,440
which is completed by the Marian face of

1739
01:19:29,440 --> 01:19:32,679
the deep the oceanic womb of the Stella

1740
01:19:32,679 --> 01:19:35,159
marus and Western science must come to

1741
01:19:35,159 --> 01:19:38,120
see that its ever elusive ether is in

1742
01:19:38,120 --> 01:19:40,600
fact the negation of

1743
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:43,360
negation in its efforts to do so Western

1744
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:45,000
Consciousness will be required to

1745
01:19:45,000 --> 01:19:47,719
integrate into itself elements of indic

1746
01:19:47,719 --> 01:19:50,080
and Far Eastern cosmologies which have

1747
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,199
been characterized by far less

1748
01:19:52,199 --> 01:19:55,239
antagonistic relationships to the abil

1749
01:19:55,239 --> 01:19:57,760
Kora the number zero was brought to

1750
01:19:57,760 --> 01:19:59,960
Europe during the 13th century from the

1751
01:19:59,960 --> 01:20:02,920
Islamic World which in turn had derived

1752
01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:05,760
the concept of zero from India it was

1753
01:20:05,760 --> 01:20:07,719
during this exact time period that

1754
01:20:07,719 --> 01:20:10,679
Christian Mystics such as Meister echart

1755
01:20:10,679 --> 01:20:14,199
Angela of folino and hovic of antor came

1756
01:20:14,199 --> 01:20:16,560
into contact with what they described as

1757
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:20,159
the fathomless Abyssal darkness of

1758
01:20:20,159 --> 01:20:23,080
God Western Consciousness even long

1759
01:20:23,080 --> 01:20:25,560
before Christianity and even before

1760
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:28,239
Plato was an awareness which oriented

1761
01:20:28,239 --> 01:20:31,840
itself towards Futurity and Destiny

1762
01:20:31,840 --> 01:20:33,920
Eastern Consciousness correlatively has

1763
01:20:33,920 --> 01:20:36,600
tended much more towards the repetition

1764
01:20:36,600 --> 01:20:39,840
of the past the linearity of the former

1765
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:42,320
and the circularity of the latter must

1766
01:20:42,320 --> 01:20:45,480
be integrated so as to form the spiral

1767
01:20:45,480 --> 01:20:48,960
of a truly evolutionary self-awareness

1768
01:20:48,960 --> 01:20:51,080
one which is able to contend with the

1769
01:20:51,080 --> 01:20:53,679
fathomless freedom which is both the

1770
01:20:53,679 --> 01:20:57,040
microcosmic ground of the human soul and

1771
01:20:57,040 --> 01:21:01,800
the macrocosmic ground of existence as

1772
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:04,679
such the next major series of videos I

1773
01:21:04,679 --> 01:21:07,320
will be working on will be a reworking

1774
01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:09,360
of the first series of videos I ever

1775
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:12,000
created for this channel that initial

1776
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:14,320
handful of videos covered John gier's

1777
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:17,800
magnum opus the everpresent origin and

1778
01:21:17,800 --> 01:21:19,719
in the next series of videos we will be

1779
01:21:19,719 --> 01:21:23,040
diving very very deep into gier's

1780
01:21:23,040 --> 01:21:24,960
thought as such I I think it's

1781
01:21:24,960 --> 01:21:26,960
appropriate that I end this video with a

1782
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:29,440
quote from the everpresent

1783
01:21:29,440 --> 01:21:33,080
origin quote we are closer to the abyss

1784
01:21:33,080 --> 01:21:35,320
than we wish to admit but it is

1785
01:21:35,320 --> 01:21:37,280
fortunate that we have an insight into

1786
01:21:37,280 --> 01:21:41,080
the fact that we are the abyss each of

1787
01:21:41,080 --> 01:21:43,560
us must have this Insight in order to

1788
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:46,400
Prevail over the abyss at the very least

1789
01:21:46,400 --> 01:21:49,120
in the hour of our death and if such

1790
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:51,719
Insight is not gained until then this

1791
01:21:51,719 --> 01:21:54,159
hour will be one of bitterness and

1792
01:21:54,159 --> 01:21:56,080
Terror

1793
01:21:56,080 --> 01:21:59,560
thanks for watching