Is Awareness possible?

Introduction to Gebser's "The Ever-Present Origin":

The first part of the present work, which is devoted to the foundations of the aperspectival world, is intended to furnish convincing evidence for this new spiritual attitude. This evidence rests on two guiding principles whose validity will gradually become clear:

' 1) Latency--what is concealed--is the demonstrable presence of the future. It includes everything that is not yet manifest, as well as everything which has again returned to latency. Since we are dealing here primarily with phenomena of consciousness and integration, we will also have to investingate questions of history, the soul and the psyche, time, space, and the forms of thought. Since the second part of this work is devoted to manifestations of the new consciousness, the first part must clarify questions relating to the manifestations of previous and present consciousness structures. We shall attempt to demonstrate the incipient concretion of time and the spiritual dimension which are preconditions of the aperspectival world. We shall also attempt to furnish evidence of the increasing efficacy of that spiritual reality (which is neither a mere psychic state nor an intellectual-rational form of representation). This will bring out the validity of our second guiding principle.:
2) Transparency (diaphaneity) is the form of manifestation (epiphany) of the spiritual. Our concern is to render transparent everything latent "behind" and "before" the world--to render transparent our own origin, our entire human past, as well as the present, which already contains the future. We are shaped and determined not only by today and yesterday, but by tomorrow as well. The author is not interested in outlining discrete segments, steps or levels of man, but in disclosing the transparency of man as a whole and the interplay of the various consciousness structures which constitute him. This transparency or diapheneity of our existence is particularly evident during transitional periods, and it is from the experiences of man in transition, experiences which man has had with the concealed and latent aspects of his dawning future as he became aware of them, that will clarify our own experiencing of the present.

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[elrynx2]

If logic and music depend on eachother how can their unity be chaos.

[redliterocket4]

its not the kind of chaos you must be thinkng of, its the kind of choas that contains both order and disorder.

[redliterocket4]

"this war" that can't be won is Iraq, but it is also the battle to have knowledge of everything. having knowledge of everything is the same as having control of everything, and we simply cannot ever gain control of everything because everything includes we ourselves, and how in God's name are we ever going to be able to know and control our deepest selves?

[redliterocket4]

And even supposing we could, why would we want to? So we can have our whole calendrical lives logically mapped out from cradle to grave by our parents before we are even born?

[snbeings]

Dude, you have to, HAVE TO study Advaita Vedanta and also Negative Theology or to Negate (Negate - ive) ......everything you are talking about here is within the confines of ideas, thoughts, concepts ...but what is ....is beyond all of that. There is no you, or I, us ......

[thegreenmachine7]

"can we become aware? Or are we just programmed machines that have no.. no ability to ever transcend their memory, their past, what they have been exposed to... in their past" LOLOLOLOL lay off the dope man, you're not a philosopher you sound like a moron

[sassyjane2112]

Is awareness possible? How else did you come to think of that question. Creativity? Isn't that a piece of artwork on the wall behind you? Isn't that a building you're sitting in?

[HaleyMary]

The I that is a body, not has a body. That makes sense. In a way, everything in the universe is energy/matter. It's just as though the atoms and energy/matter is in different forms. It's like the I is consciousness, in a sense.

[Posydon7]

Do you know why you are here? Do you want to take the red pill or the blue one... think is time to look for Morpheus for some San pedro and Ayawaska, the answers will come soon.... and what about the emptiness of emptiness? Sayre Tupac Wiracocha

[ramas0012]

greatly done...

[yvettezindel]

nice spoken...

[washboard1997]

although the political system will soon be overshadowed by the technological -- the organic system will overshadow the technological