The ordinary and existentialist modes of consciousness behave like the wave particle dynamic of photons
To ask whether hypnotized consciousness or existentialist consciousness is “true” after experiencing both seems to be as pointless as asking whether light is “really” waves or particles after seeing the two-hole experiment. In fact, the emphasis on choice and creativity has an exact parallel in the two-hole experiment. Many physicists think that the best metaphor to describe the experiment is that we “create” the have or particle dependent on which experimental setup we “choose.”
The wave/particle complimentary seem to mirror the existential mode of consciousness even more closely when we examine it. The ordinary consciousness of the “self”—in the conventional sense—is much like a particle: “solid,” “isolated,” “real,” encapsulated by the skin and more or less static. When on becomes detached enough for neurological self-criticism, the self appears more like a process and even a wavey process: it is a succession of states rather than a state itself and that these states come and go in a wave-like manner, flowing between “inner” and “outer,” and impermanent. This is how the right hemisphere would see it: the right hemisphere is responsible for our sense of time as continuous and unified. As one observes them arise and pass, one learns to choose desirable states, at least to the same extent that one “chooses” waves or particles. This simple experience, available to all, makes clear that in-unite-ual and flowing modes of consciousness are existentially as “real” as the in-divide-ual “particles” that we normally experience as our “selves,” as the left hemisphere sees: the left hemisphere perceives time as a sequential series of fragmented individual moments.
One of the best ways to learn how to experience the wave-aspect of consciousness is listening to music, especially Baroque music, with ones eyes closed. Much quicker than meditation, this makes one aware of consciousnesses wave-like flowing aspect, and of its synergetic nature. At its richest, as in meditation, consciousness appears to become the object of its attention. “There is no separation between me and the music” we say.
References
- Wilson, A., Robert. (1986). The New Inquisition Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science Chapter 8 Creative Agnosticism (Page 254 · Location 5347). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press.
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