I stopped reading briefly to examine how the desire for transcendence has materialized in my experience and soon remembered another essay read long ago in praise of serendipity. Sometimes transcendence is achieved by a long and hard process and other times it seems to happen simply by accident. Poincaré wrote long ago about a chance thought that struck him while on an outing that united two different branches of mathematics. He took note and a few weeks later wrote it all down. I am sure hard work was previously involved and he just didn't get "lucky."
when I got to the "Guess what this is" elongated rectangle of gold into yellow color field I imagined Mark Rothko, some form of ecstasy....aah such wish fulfillment mike
Informative article on the mechanics of Transcendence! Not addressed is the hugely subjective nature of transcendent states. Especially when applied to the psychological, mystical, & spiritual. Which is why I'm biased towards pretty much all sectional varieties of Buddhist filtering, as they contain simplified means and standards for testing and thus verifying personal experience--or not--of specific states. The current, highly commodified 'Mindfulness' form of Buddhism is perhaps an exception to this. Being able to means-test transcendence (i.e., 'progress' on a spiritual or psycho-spiritual path where one is doing 'the work') can be enormously useful.
In this article you said there will be more on FreqTheory …..where can I find more about this? I’m curious to learn more
I stopped reading briefly to examine how the desire for transcendence has materialized in my experience and soon remembered another essay read long ago in praise of serendipity. Sometimes transcendence is achieved by a long and hard process and other times it seems to happen simply by accident. Poincaré wrote long ago about a chance thought that struck him while on an outing that united two different branches of mathematics. He took note and a few weeks later wrote it all down. I am sure hard work was previously involved and he just didn't get "lucky."
when I got to the "Guess what this is" elongated rectangle of gold into yellow color field I imagined Mark Rothko, some form of ecstasy....aah such wish fulfillment mike
Gr8 essay A.E. 💪🏽
Informative article on the mechanics of Transcendence! Not addressed is the hugely subjective nature of transcendent states. Especially when applied to the psychological, mystical, & spiritual. Which is why I'm biased towards pretty much all sectional varieties of Buddhist filtering, as they contain simplified means and standards for testing and thus verifying personal experience--or not--of specific states. The current, highly commodified 'Mindfulness' form of Buddhism is perhaps an exception to this. Being able to means-test transcendence (i.e., 'progress' on a spiritual or psycho-spiritual path where one is doing 'the work') can be enormously useful.