{"id":563,"date":"2016-11-04T08:19:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T08:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/a-phenomenological-reading"},"modified":"2019-09-27T04:50:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T04:50:19","slug":"a-phenomenological-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/11\/04\/a-phenomenological-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"A phenomenological reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editorial notes<\/strong>:
\nThis essay can be categorised as the first in a series of 18 expositions comprising Shai\u2019s Consolidation work.
\n<\/span>\nShai commences his analysis by stipulating that the core ideas found in the \u201cIndus Canon\u201d \u2013 apparently referring to the wisdom of the East \u2013 provide a better philosophical reach than those found in the \u201cancient West\u201d \u2013 referring, I believe, to ancient Greek philosophy.
\n<\/span>\nHe then moves to a comparison of the \u201cIndus Canon\u201d with Jewish philosophy as found in the Torah which he refers to as an \u201cInfinite nexus\u201d and describes as a universal connector to all aspects of reality. Shai states that not only does the Torah describe the physical world, it also describes the \u201cphenomenological world\u201d which he later refers to as \u201cthe world as made up of experience, and not as made up of real things that cause experiences\u201d. To illustrate this point, he refers to the creation of the \u201ctwo great lights\u201d (the sun and the moon \u2013 as referred to in Genesis 1:16). Although the two heavenly objects were created to provide physical light, they are also a potent reminder of the Kabbalistic imperative that is incumbent on the \u2018created\u2019 to aspire to the same revelation as projected by the \u2018creator\u2019.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The first paragraph may strike some as ironic, blasphemous, or as an act of foreign worship. None of these are intended; the opposite is intended.<\/p>\n

The Indus canon comprises a length that outweighs by scales of magnitude those of the ancient West (wh<\/a>ic<\/a>he<\/a>ve<\/a>r<\/a> one chooses<\/a>); its core story<\/a>, the hours before a battle, are authoritatively read as both literal<\/a> and archetypal. Members of its principal cast are understood to represent aspects and forces of each reader’s mind.<\/p>\n

I propose the following.<\/p>\n

The Torah<\/em> is an infinite nexus. It is a prism through which each and every<\/a> perspective and subset of our world can be dissected and understood correctly. Where it is true, it is true in conjunction and by simultaneous channels.<\/p>\n

The Torah<\/em> can be read as a description of the paradigms, vectors, and spiral unfolding of the phenomenological world. This is simultaneous and parallel to its primary meaning and comprehension, viz. literal and simple.<\/p>\n

I step aside to describe my use of “phenomenological world”. \u00a0The phrase itself derives from Western phi<\/a>los<\/a>ophy<\/a>, but its concerns are reflected in the Eastern thought<\/a>s<\/a>. It means to see the world as made up of\u00a0experience<\/em>, and not as made up of\u00a0real things that cause experiences<\/em>. There are various ways to classify things<\/em> in a phenomenological world, for example, sensations, feelings<\/a> (dis\/like), thoughts, mental qualities (e.g. concentration<\/a>).<\/p>\n

In the Eastern text, it is taught that the hero prince is a characterization of the part of the self that can direct other parts, and that is beset by enemy forces that are rationales for submission and that are the suffering that accompanies struggle.<\/p>\n

I propose that the Torah<\/em> is simultaneously a description of the entities and relationships that comprise the phenomenological landscape. Thus when<\/a> the two great lights were given governance in the expanse above, this also explains the construction of our internal world. The difficulty of course being, how to comprehend the words, phrases and narratives in applying them our each and every<\/a> mindscape.<\/p>\n

A lesser, second, difficulty is to then perceive the external world and the internal world as reflections.<\/p>\n

A third, but the primary difficulty is to perceive the relationship of the Torah to the world, including the various logos of its iterations, static<\/a> truth, unfolding<\/a>, as well its corollary vistas in the Nach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editorial notes: This essay can be categorised as the first in a series of 18 expositions comprising Shai\u2019s Consolidation work. Shai commences his analysis by stipulating that the core ideas found in the \u201cIndus Canon\u201d \u2013 apparently referring to the wisdom of the East \u2013 provide a better philosophical reach than those found in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[98,159,90,167,108],"tags":[],"metadata":[301,294,101,307,305],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-bashful-hope","category-all-posts","category-blog-posts","category-judaism","category-observations","metadata-fifthhphase","metadata-beginning-of-a-phase","metadata-editor_notes","metadata-stage-5-consolidation","metadata-stages-phases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":819,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/09\/27\/first-steps-in-seeing-the-world-by-way-of-the-infinite\/","url_meta":{"origin":563,"position":0},"title":"First steps in seeing the world by way of the Infinite","author":"Pala","date":"September 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Editorial notes: This post was found in 'Draft' mode in the original blog and may be incomplete. 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