The Little Purple Notebook On How To Escape From This Universe
Copyleft � 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
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No Limits In The Skies
In theory, a Being is able to perceive whatever it wants in this Universe.
All it has to do is to focus on an event in time and space.
For practical purposes, the Being restricts its focus to a rather narrow
area, originally in order to enjoy the show more intensely, subsequently in
order to not having to look at things it couldn't confront anymore.
A problem arises when a Being maintains a certain focus setting even after
it selected a different area in time and space for experiencing.
Since a Being is twisting around time and space in its mind in an odd way,
the focus model can quickly become too complicated in many situations.
For ease of understanding the 'viewing angle' model will be used in this
chapter. In this 'perspective', the focus is always _optimal_, which means
the picture is always
sharp, but the 'viewing angle', the limited space that is being looked at,
becomes restricted by boundaries.
In the hologram model it could be compared to a sharply limited spotlight
that wanders through time and space.
Time can be seen as a 'space filled with events' and because of the
similarities between a Being's handling of time and space, the label 'time'
will be replaced in this chapter by the label 'event space'.
The 'viewing angle model' also makes sense as a starting point for people
who still belief they're nothing but a body. They have adopted the limited
view of the human eye as a standard for viewing in general and since the
human eye has a fixed angle of view, this fixation extends easily to their
minds.
The chapters on the 'Future Spread' and the '2, 2 1/2, and 3D' views
demonstrate the preparatory exercise of holding two locations in the event
space (time) and the spatial dimensions _concurrently_.
The word 'concurrent' usually describes the circumstance of two events in
two locations in spatial space happening at the 'same' time but here it
could also be taken as two events happening at the same spatial location in
_different_ times.
Since these excursions here deal with space and time, labels should be
applied with extreme caution. And, needless, to say, it should always kept
in mind that 'labels are labels' - 'the word is NOT the thing'.
(As a reminder, no spatial location can contain two events at the same
time, a clue which becomes very interesting during the examination of the
morphology of this Universe.
Since the geometry of spatial space and event space follow the same rules,
the following will talk about spatial space only - the application to the
event space will be left to the reader.
Warning: any enlargement of a viewing angle is magnifying the 'power' of a
Being exponentially. With increased power, the Being can _also_ hurt itself
more 'effectively'. This is one of the reasons why it was restricting
itself. A a precautionary measure, the Being could shift to one of the
'brahmavihaara'
states (cp. 'Shifting Attitudes') while modifying its viewing angle.
True '3D' viewing can be achieved by 'concentrating' on two corners of an
object at the same time. This is at first glance a contradiction, of
course, but the attempt of doing so will break the fixation on 'single
points' and open up the space in between the points for viewing. Since the
Being became hypnotized many times in different contexts, '3D' viewing
becomes quickly replaced again by common 2D viewing in the
course of daily life. (Visual artists very often have an advantage here
since they are trained to assume 2 1/2 D viewing.)
(As a side note, holding two objects in space in one's consciousness also
acts as a very effective and fast exteriozation process for the above and
other reasons.)
Extending the angle of view can now be achieved by selecting increasingly
larger distances between the two points.
Of course, if a person is able to recognize the boundaries of its vision
without any 'tricks', the person may be able to enlarge the angle of vision
by just moving these boundaries outwards.
The moving of boundary is best be done gradually and slowly. The person
will find itself 'hitting events', past, present, _and_ future(s), that it
has been hiding from itself.
With continuous exercise, the boundaries will go towards the illusion of
'infinity'. The trick then becomes to 'look a little bit beyond the border
of infinity'.
In the end, the entire view may change dramatically if a Being decides to
(temporarily) drop any boundaries of perception. Gotamo called this
'entering a boundless state'.
As with 'Shifting Attitudes', a person may encounter various strange
phenomena at the fringes of perception and comparable observations can be
made as well. (Gotamo's 'meditation path' consists essentially of a
combination of these two approaches.)
And as with 'Shifting Attitudes', the emphasis should be on the ability to
_change_ the angle of view. One cannot participate in this Universe with a
constantly unlimited angle (or focus).
A definition of 'Freedom' is sometimes formulated as :
'the ability to occupy, hold, change, and leave
any possible viewpoint at will'.
Although this is a very good definition, it can (and often is) perceived as
referring to static and singular viewpoints.
This limited interpretation can tempt a person to mistake its mocked-up
viewpoints for 'real' viewpoints and we find sometimes references to
'viewpoints from outside this game (or this Universe').
But a viewpoint from outside this Universe cannot possibly exist. Any claim
of such a viewpoint _must_ be referring to a mocked-up viewpoint. Any
viewpoint related to this Universe must be IN this Universe (cp. 'The
Anatta Principle').
Well, this discussion itself is, of course, border-line and quite close to
the impossible and therefore better ends at this point...
Over to you!
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Copyleft � 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
