Ashok
@thebeyondwithin.space
PhD candidate in philosophy. Post-traditional yogi. Long-time meditator. New dad.
A paragraph from my thesis draft:
April 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
A paragraph from my thesis draft:
It's not possible perception of a situation is constructed from separated sensations. Behavioural actions are not first only motions between location-points in empty space. Yet it's assumed from the start in most philosophy & science (esp. cognition).
January 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
It's not possible perception of a situation is constructed from separated sensations. Behavioural actions are not first only motions between location-points in empty space. Yet it's assumed from the start in most philosophy & science (esp. cognition).
In the old model (still taken for granted), 'order' limits and determines what can happen. But no abstract set of possibilities *determines* what can happen. Occurring (what actually happens) doesn't fill out some abstract order. If that were truly the case, nothing could ever actually happen.
January 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
In the old model (still taken for granted), 'order' limits and determines what can happen. But no abstract set of possibilities *determines* what can happen. Occurring (what actually happens) doesn't fill out some abstract order. If that were truly the case, nothing could ever actually happen.
Space-time localisations are only comparisons made by a spectating observer. But what occurs is not the result of any comparison. Actual events do not derive from comparisons.
December 13, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Space-time localisations are only comparisons made by a spectating observer. But what occurs is not the result of any comparison. Actual events do not derive from comparisons.
The usual conceptual model deprives *everything* of implying and meaning, not just living bodies. It constructs its objects in empty positional space and time, so that everything consists of information at space-time points. The space and the objects are presented before someone—
December 10, 2024 at 7:18 AM
The usual conceptual model deprives *everything* of implying and meaning, not just living bodies. It constructs its objects in empty positional space and time, so that everything consists of information at space-time points. The space and the objects are presented before someone—
It seems mechanistic formulation cannot be separated from (is derived from) spatial metaphor.
December 9, 2024 at 12:21 AM
It seems mechanistic formulation cannot be separated from (is derived from) spatial metaphor.
To read our formulations back as predetermining nature pretends that nature has the sort of order that our formulations have. Actually it is quite obvious that nature has something like the sort of order that the progression of our formulations exhibits over the years... >
December 8, 2024 at 9:35 PM
To read our formulations back as predetermining nature pretends that nature has the sort of order that our formulations have. Actually it is quite obvious that nature has something like the sort of order that the progression of our formulations exhibits over the years... >
"Since we humans are here, we can be certain that we are not impossible. A conceptual model of “reality” that makes us seem impossible has to have something wrong with it."
— Gendlin
— Gendlin
December 7, 2024 at 6:13 AM
"Since we humans are here, we can be certain that we are not impossible. A conceptual model of “reality” that makes us seem impossible has to have something wrong with it."
— Gendlin
— Gendlin
From now on I shall be borrowing the excellent term Hylomania, or "obsession with matter": www.essentiafoundation.org/the-lost-mus...
(Pace Aristotle, whose 'hyle' I take to be entirely different to the modern concept of matter).
(Pace Aristotle, whose 'hyle' I take to be entirely different to the modern concept of matter).
The lost music with which the world worlds
Arthur Haswell invites us to pay attention to and, once again, like our ancestors once did, hear the rhyme and rhythm with which the world worlds. Reality, he maintains, unfolds according to a form of...
www.essentiafoundation.org
November 23, 2024 at 8:05 AM
From now on I shall be borrowing the excellent term Hylomania, or "obsession with matter": www.essentiafoundation.org/the-lost-mus...
(Pace Aristotle, whose 'hyle' I take to be entirely different to the modern concept of matter).
(Pace Aristotle, whose 'hyle' I take to be entirely different to the modern concept of matter).
Reposted by Ashok
Science does not tell us that we are nothing but biological machines. It’s a philosophy which wants to speak for science which makes that claim.
We call that philosophy “ The Blind Spot”
@evanthompson.bsky.social
We call that philosophy “ The Blind Spot”
@evanthompson.bsky.social
November 22, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Science does not tell us that we are nothing but biological machines. It’s a philosophy which wants to speak for science which makes that claim.
We call that philosophy “ The Blind Spot”
@evanthompson.bsky.social
We call that philosophy “ The Blind Spot”
@evanthompson.bsky.social
This just landed on my doorstep. Can't wait to get stuck in.
April 24, 2023 at 6:46 AM
This just landed on my doorstep. Can't wait to get stuck in.
Modern metta is a bit like a variation/repurposing of bhakti, but stripped of all its magic. Rediscovering bhakti, rediscovers metta.
April 22, 2023 at 10:52 AM
Modern metta is a bit like a variation/repurposing of bhakti, but stripped of all its magic. Rediscovering bhakti, rediscovers metta.
Love is the (open) secret ingredient.
April 22, 2023 at 10:48 AM
Love is the (open) secret ingredient.
https://thebeyondwithin.substack.com/p/yogic-vision-devas-and-super-sensible
A snippet from my latest substack.
A snippet from my latest substack.
April 20, 2023 at 12:31 PM
https://thebeyondwithin.substack.com/p/yogic-vision-devas-and-super-sensible
A snippet from my latest substack.
A snippet from my latest substack.
It has taken some time. But I have finally updated my Substack with a new post.
April 19, 2023 at 8:53 AM
It has taken some time. But I have finally updated my Substack with a new post.
I'll just say it. Meditation is not only a psychological or somatic thing. Although it's most certainly those. It's also a super-sensible thing: though now something that is rarely discerned, stillness becomes radiance, becomes ontological antenna for the Higher Presence of beings & worlds.
April 15, 2023 at 9:23 AM
I'll just say it. Meditation is not only a psychological or somatic thing. Although it's most certainly those. It's also a super-sensible thing: though now something that is rarely discerned, stillness becomes radiance, becomes ontological antenna for the Higher Presence of beings & worlds.
Nth. American vibes very strong in here. Like an extra layer draped over the ingroup energy.
April 13, 2023 at 12:29 AM
Nth. American vibes very strong in here. Like an extra layer draped over the ingroup energy.
About to run the 5th of 6 weekly installments of an online meditation workshop. It's one of the pioneering challenges of the 21st century, to unfold a living temple space over virtual medium, wherein the theurgic process of landing the presences can tangibly work.
April 12, 2023 at 1:51 AM
About to run the 5th of 6 weekly installments of an online meditation workshop. It's one of the pioneering challenges of the 21st century, to unfold a living temple space over virtual medium, wherein the theurgic process of landing the presences can tangibly work.
Bluesky Sydney, checking in.
April 11, 2023 at 12:34 AM
Bluesky Sydney, checking in.
Yes! If thinking were something pre-planned before anything can be thought (preceded by some internal regulative formula), we would never think at all; that planning would then be unplanned. No matter how complex, formulated constructs are always preceded & exceeded by concretely lived situations.
the knowing comes with the doing
April 10, 2023 at 1:04 PM
Yes! If thinking were something pre-planned before anything can be thought (preceded by some internal regulative formula), we would never think at all; that planning would then be unplanned. No matter how complex, formulated constructs are always preceded & exceeded by concretely lived situations.
Not sure if I'll ever be a poaster. Certainly was not an accomplished one 'there'. But bluesky captures a certain nostalgia for being among the poasters that once made 'there' a place to relate.
April 10, 2023 at 1:08 AM
Not sure if I'll ever be a poaster. Certainly was not an accomplished one 'there'. But bluesky captures a certain nostalgia for being among the poasters that once made 'there' a place to relate.
Woo! Handle duly changed to my domain ☺️
April 9, 2023 at 11:25 AM
Woo! Handle duly changed to my domain ☺️
Excited to be here! Feels fresh.
April 9, 2023 at 11:00 AM
Excited to be here! Feels fresh.