Let's be sensible here. What's the sense? To come to our senses. Sensate focus. Sensory deprivation. Enough of this nonsense! Trust your senses. A sense of time and place and home. Sensing vibe. Sensing danger. Beyond sense. Common sense. Sixth sense. Senseless. Good sense. A sense of direction. A sense of humor. A sense of well-being. Making sense. I'm sure we can all think of many more variations of the word "sense" because we each have a sense for what it means. And as obvious and important as the five physiological senses are - seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching (there are many more, too) - it's also obvious that the process of sensing includes far more than physiology. The Internity of "How I Am: Being Human," (discoveries of potential, expressions of relationship, connections to experience and the meanings of perception) is sometimes painful, sometimes pleasurable, always purposeful and without a doubt - sensational.
Today Internity has me wondering about sensory deprivation tanks, meditation and dream states. All of those experiences diminish the importance and functional norm of physiological sensations. And without the stimulation of our time-space senses it seems that consciousness would also become unstimulated and therefore diminished. But the opposite is true! Sensory deprivation tanks, meditation and dream experiences dissociate from "known" sensations and usually enhance consciousness, oftentimes including images and symbols that one has never "seen" or other stimuli one can't possibly know through memory and has no clue how to interpret or associate or respond to (i.e., hallucinations). I think these phenomena are best described as the return of consciousness to its original source - the ancient and ever-present collective unconscious (thank you Dr. Jung).
Which brings me back to thinking about Internity and a baby suspended in the earliest sensory deprivation tank, mediation and dream state - the womb. For me there is no convincing argument against the fact that the baby is having powerful sensations via the symbiotic union with mother's energies and emotions (which, of course, are in conscious and unconscious relationship with otherness). And because the baby's ego consciousness (differentiations, attachments, identity, personal memories and dissociations, etc.) is still only a seed of possibility while in the womb and for several months after birth, I think it's likely that the baby is also experiencing sensational images of the collective unconscious that have yet to be seen and can't possibly be known, interpreted, associated or responded to.
Therefore, my claim throughout this entire writing effort is that one's Internity, from the first sensations to the last, is both an a priori concoction of images, energies, emotions and symbols as well as an experiential condition of ego differentiations, attachments, identifications, personal memories and dissociations. And it all comes from and returns to the original source - an ancient and ever-present flow of the collective unconscious. In this blog I intend to consistently address Internity as a total reality of potential, relationship, experience and perception while also discovering, expressing, connecting and finding meaning in how the purposes of "How I Am: Being Human" are both consciously and unconsciously sensational.
Today Internity has me wondering about sensory deprivation tanks, meditation and dream states. All of those experiences diminish the importance and functional norm of physiological sensations. And without the stimulation of our time-space senses it seems that consciousness would also become unstimulated and therefore diminished. But the opposite is true! Sensory deprivation tanks, meditation and dream experiences dissociate from "known" sensations and usually enhance consciousness, oftentimes including images and symbols that one has never "seen" or other stimuli one can't possibly know through memory and has no clue how to interpret or associate or respond to (i.e., hallucinations). I think these phenomena are best described as the return of consciousness to its original source - the ancient and ever-present collective unconscious (thank you Dr. Jung).
Which brings me back to thinking about Internity and a baby suspended in the earliest sensory deprivation tank, mediation and dream state - the womb. For me there is no convincing argument against the fact that the baby is having powerful sensations via the symbiotic union with mother's energies and emotions (which, of course, are in conscious and unconscious relationship with otherness). And because the baby's ego consciousness (differentiations, attachments, identity, personal memories and dissociations, etc.) is still only a seed of possibility while in the womb and for several months after birth, I think it's likely that the baby is also experiencing sensational images of the collective unconscious that have yet to be seen and can't possibly be known, interpreted, associated or responded to.
Therefore, my claim throughout this entire writing effort is that one's Internity, from the first sensations to the last, is both an a priori concoction of images, energies, emotions and symbols as well as an experiential condition of ego differentiations, attachments, identifications, personal memories and dissociations. And it all comes from and returns to the original source - an ancient and ever-present flow of the collective unconscious. In this blog I intend to consistently address Internity as a total reality of potential, relationship, experience and perception while also discovering, expressing, connecting and finding meaning in how the purposes of "How I Am: Being Human" are both consciously and unconsciously sensational.
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