Blogging has been light because thinking has been heavy.
I've realized I don't have a clear understanding of intuition, inspiration, influence - that i neither individual nor abstract (because I haven't understood it, I can only express it negatively).
When a young child experiences his world, there is an animistic sense of the presence of other consciousnesses, but only a few are of known individuals. How can the unindividual but personal (...of beings) consciousness be pictured?
Not from a combination of individual consciousnesses, because the primal state is not as fully individualized. The egregore idea has it backwards, or at least is a late development of the medieval type of consciousness. But abstract explanations in terms such as fields, auras etc aren't fundamental, aren't really real...
I need a clear, simple, graspable picture, and I do not have one.
However this is a gap, an incoherence in my world view that needs fixing - if possible. So, that's what I'm trying to do.
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Isn't the World himself the picture you're looking for?
Intuition or inspiration may depend on how we look at things, how much space we allow in our consciousness may allow intuition to enter our consciousness. I don't try to understand how or why inspiration comes, but it comes on its' own. Perhaps the "higher self" recognizes when you are available and gives you its' wisdom. It seems there has to be some "prep" work to make the mind available.
I am not looking for external help with this metaphysical problem, which I can't easily explain except by negations. How to be personal but not individual. Groupish but not abstract.
The problem is real, it is due to some false assumption, but thats all I can do at present.
I note it here as an illustration of what kind of thing I think about, sometimes. The sort of metaphysical philosophy that is necessary when basic assumptions are false, socially inculcated, and causing harm.
i was going to comment, but it got too long, so i posted it here instead:
https://treesandtriads.substack.com/p/inspiration-intuition-influence
maybe it will be of interest.
@Laeth - Some similarities for sure; but also a sense of dissonance. I think we probably don't share the exact same metaphysical assumptions (some but not all), or perhaps our intentions or imperatives diverge.
I am really keen to get rid of abstractions such as "dogness"! Not there yet, but that's the hope.
to condense my position i would say: to get rid of dogness, we have to know a dog.
@Laeth - Valid - but not "my problem" here.
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