Partly a dream, but possibly an abduction

[boomerang]

I think a key realization is that the "observer" the bit of our minds that we identify with as our "true selves" is actually just a tiny bit of ourselves, an emergent quality (an event and not a thing) in fact, performing a necessary function in concert with other "bits" of us to make the greater whole. I think the confusion of "who we really are" stems from an incorrect identification with an ongoing event (the observer) as both a "thing" and as "ourselves."

Well put and clarifying. If I understand correctly, the philosophical voice in this temporary vortex of individuation that is "me", wonders if the individuated observer, this emergent egocentric event , is a subset of the larger consciousness experienced in samhadi. Perhaps this is another way of saying the entire universe is sentient and we are individuated only by virtue of time-limited emergent events.

Darn--It's hard to discuss this without teetering on the brink of psychobabble. The left brain is left word-processing with a kind of "floating ground". It has the impossible task of acting as interface between the individual and infinity.

 

[trainedobserver]

Well put and clarifying. If I understand correctly, the philosophical voice in this temporary vortex of individuation that is "me", wonders if the individuated observer, this emergent egocentric event , is a subset of the larger consciousness experienced in samhadi. Perhaps this is another way of saying the entire universe is sentient and we are individuated only by virtue of time-limited emergent events.

Darn--It's hard to discuss this without teetering on the brink of psychobabble. The left brain is left word-processing with a kind of "floating ground". It has the impossible task of acting as interface between the individual and infinity.

We are speaking the same language I think, however I was referring to the microcosm of the human organism itself.

On individualization: The "observer" perceives itself and the body that generates it as an individual, as something separate from the environment. In reality we know that we are not. The borders of our "skin" aren't really borders at all. Everything is connected to everything else through encapsulation, immersion, or interdependence.