Alex is a bright boy! I Love him! Literally.
“Maya” means to measure, in its best definition, and it doesn’t mean “illusion” at all, except in a very narrow sense.
In Platonic Surrealism, only 3 things exist in any ‘chunky way’:
POTENTIALITY – all possible states and their possible interactions, in a NON-ACTIVATED SENSE. POTENTIALITY is non-temporal and takes no energy. It is closely related to ‘Buddhist emptiness’, which as any good scholar knows, actually means ‘the fullness that does not move’ (so it’s seen as ’emptiness’).
AWARENESS – the self-reflective capability to focus a SUBSET of POTENTIALITY back on ‘itself’ and thus become capable of being an AWARE BEING. AWARENESS rapidly crystallizes when a ‘time-like gradient’ is imposed by sudden self-reflectiveness and then you get the next component. Something like the quantization of being to a minimal self-referential unit.
PRIOMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS – all the bits of AWARENESS in perfect harmony ruminating on itself without actually ‘doing anything’. It’s a dream-like state. But to ‘focus in’, it has to fracture itself, to see ALL the details, including being a very limited and isolated being. PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS is inherently unstable as it hungers to be ALL STATES IN ALL TIMES, so that is what it does. It basically ‘detonates itself into chunks’ so that it can experience everything.
Below this you get ‘regular, FRACTURED consciousness, matter, energy and the somewhat universal ‘fabric’of what looks like a vast sea of fibers, that act rather like a fungal mycelial network and somewhat resemble primordial black holes, though they are not black and not holes.
So to address the longing in Alex, to not denigrate ‘matter’.
Well, I don’t. Platonic Surrealism doesn’t. We don’t call it an illusion. But we do call it a ‘movie’. Anything that is executed through a Monad or group of Monads is a movie.
WE ALL LOVE MOVIES. THEY BEAT THE HELL OUT OF BEING JUST ONE BEING, WITH NO
ACTIVE PROPERTIES, ALL ALONE AND UNLOVED AND LONELY.
The whole ‘enlightenment’ thing is actually a SCHLOCK. PAPC (POTENTIALITY, AWARENESS,
and PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS go to a great deal of trouble to make those ‘MOVIES’.
They are as REAL AS ANYTHING ELSE, as a PHENOTYPE of the POTENTIAL GENOTYPE
of PAPC.
MATTER IS LOVE MADE REAL.
I LOVE MATTER. IT IS PRECIOUS. SO IS ENERGY AND MIND AND ALL THE REST.
NONE OF IT IS ‘FAKE’, BUT YES, IT IS ALL SUBJECTIVE. BUT SINCE ONLY SUBJECTIVETY
EXISTS, AS THERE IS NO DUALITY, IT’S THE ONLY GAME I TOWN.
LOVE MATTER, LOVE ENERGY, LOVE MIND AND LOVE THE THREE BEHIND IT.
As some Eastern adepts have said, “Samsara and Moksha are one”.
THERE IS ONLY ONE ‘HERE’. IT’S NOT FAR AWAY. IT’S RIGHT HERE. ALL IT’S PASSIVE AND ACTIVE PROPERTIES ARE RIGHT HERE. THERE IS NOWHERE ELSE TO GO BUT HERE.
Alex and others, I hope this helps.
Love,
Kevin Cann
1/15/2025