Klein Bottle Being

Exteriority and Interiority seem to be significant features in much of our/my understanding of what it is to be a thinking conscious entity. Like most people I divide experience into an exterior world of objective, interpersonal, physical stuff and an interior world of memory, feeling, imagination, interpretation, etc. This division seems also to be marked out in many philosophical, psychological and metaphysical traditions, even if only to the extent that it is something that should be 'transcended' in a search for a more non-dual or eliminative solution.

This is the quotation from W.T. Stace that I was looking for:

"One may be called extrovertive mystical experience, the other introvertive mystical experience. Both are apprehensions of the One, but they reach it in different ways. The extrovertive way looks outward and through the physical senses into the external world and finds the One there. The introvertive way turns inward, introspectively, and finds the One at the bottoom of the self, at the bottom of human personality." (Mysticism and Philosophy. 1961, p. 131-132)

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[itsmaxinthebox]

I hadn't thought much about how language illustrates our methods of thought until I stared watching your videos. It's an interesting idea and i certainly don't know enough to make any judgment about it's validity but it intuitively feels right. I wonder if the words we are taught shape our eventual thought or if our thought shapes our words. Probably a bit of both I suppose. Great video as always. I'm always left with something to think about, maybe I can blame you for my headaches huh? -Max