Beautiful, Ellen, thank you for your provocative thoughts and experience. I really won't be able to address the question you raise about the intersection with other beings until next year, sometime, most likely, at the pace this is rolling out. But here's my best response at this point in what I'm presenting.
Beautiful, Ellen, thank you for your provocative thoughts and experience. I really won't be able to address the question you raise about the intersection with other beings until next year, sometime, most likely, at the pace this is rolling out. But here's my best response at this point in what I'm presenting.
Psychotopology reveals and emphasizes the field dimension of conscious experience. At this point in fieldwork (in this series on observation), we are observing affect fields. We will get to the powerful observational and experimental capacities that open up through fieldwork moving later this year. Through the moving phase of fieldwork, it becomes evident that when we are working with affect fields, every affect field does belong to the person experiencing it. Even those which have acquired compensations that set them up to represent other forces and entities are easily recovered into the family of modules belonging to the self.
At the same time, another type of field is crucial to understanding our complete experience. I call them imagery fields. For every consciousness module there is one and only one affect field, but several imagery fields spread over visual, auditory, and somatic channels. These imagery fields host the grand majority of our conscious experience -- thoughts, memories, visions, sensations, etc. -- and I believe it is through the potent presence of these imagery fields that we are able to access non-self information and encounter other energies. The affect fields anchor our experience in this self with the capacity to experience the "other" while maintaining its integrity.
To fully investigate this hypothesis will require disciplined work by people like yourself who are exploring these intriguing edges of experience. It'll be super fascinating to see what emerges!
Beautiful, Ellen, thank you for your provocative thoughts and experience. I really won't be able to address the question you raise about the intersection with other beings until next year, sometime, most likely, at the pace this is rolling out. But here's my best response at this point in what I'm presenting.
Psychotopology reveals and emphasizes the field dimension of conscious experience. At this point in fieldwork (in this series on observation), we are observing affect fields. We will get to the powerful observational and experimental capacities that open up through fieldwork moving later this year. Through the moving phase of fieldwork, it becomes evident that when we are working with affect fields, every affect field does belong to the person experiencing it. Even those which have acquired compensations that set them up to represent other forces and entities are easily recovered into the family of modules belonging to the self.
At the same time, another type of field is crucial to understanding our complete experience. I call them imagery fields. For every consciousness module there is one and only one affect field, but several imagery fields spread over visual, auditory, and somatic channels. These imagery fields host the grand majority of our conscious experience -- thoughts, memories, visions, sensations, etc. -- and I believe it is through the potent presence of these imagery fields that we are able to access non-self information and encounter other energies. The affect fields anchor our experience in this self with the capacity to experience the "other" while maintaining its integrity.
To fully investigate this hypothesis will require disciplined work by people like yourself who are exploring these intriguing edges of experience. It'll be super fascinating to see what emerges!