Dear Michael,
I would agree with you that 'primary' is an artifact of logical thought. It is
a conceptual abstraction, appropriate in some contexts, irrelevant in others.
Appropriate when it points a client away from a secondary repeating pattern of
behavior into feeling the primary emotion that is hidden underneath. Irrelevant
perhaps from the view from Beyond.
When the question 'what is primary' is asked and one doesn't seek an answer to
the question, the question functions to open a space. Even though the term
primary may have a limited context where it is appropriate, the asking can
still function as a koan, as a step beyond knowing.
Whether the Beyond is called holomovement, a non-local, a-temporal network or
morphic field, the Beyond stays beyond cognition and is resistant to our
efforts to grasp it.
By occupying the space that is opened by any good question and one does not
collapse the possibilities through conceptual thinking, a deeper meeting
between observer and observed can take place - a meeting where you and I can
recognize that what is looking out my eyes is precisely the same as what is
looking out your eyes. Even though what is actually looking remains
ungraspable.
Rather than thinking that something 'goes out the eyes' as in the classical
model, it seems to me more like a local recognition of the non-local reality.
My view is that through the recognition of oneness of consciousness, spirit or
whatever it is, that there is actually increased freedom for individuation.
That is perhaps one of the delicious paradoxes we find in systemic thinking and
practice.
Alone. All One.
Thomas Bryson
On Sep 20, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Michael Reddy <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thomas, Roberrt, All
Thomas wrote:
As for the question, what is primary? A perfect question for opening up a
space of inquiry! Sometimes it feels right to narrow the
space and focus on a smaller context and at the same time it appeals to
simply open the space through inquiry and then to occupy
that openness and see what unfolds.
Here's a question. What if the term "primary" really doesn't apply? What if
"primary" is an artifact of logical thought? You pick your primaries and
base everything else on, derive everything else from--them. But the realm of
thought circles back on itself, and around the circle, nearby only a little
ways, some things are well explained or dealt with pragmatically by your
primaries.
But further away, further around, things get less well explained or
manipulated. And you find, well, another primary, at the opposite end of
this circular spectrum (where your thought falls apart)--that one, or that
set, explains or manipulates these odd things really well, but falls apart
back around at the other end, the place where you picked the first primaries.
So quantum physics starts out, and chemistry, biology, psychology, and
finally consciousness are supposed to be epiphenomena that emerge from it.
It gets harder and harder to grasp these dependencies, especially when we
come to consciousness. But in the other direction, underneath quantum
physics, bang--they have run smack into consciousness, as another possible
primary. So Eastern thought has started with consciousness, and derived
things going the other way.
Rupert Sheldrake tries to turn various "dogmas" of science on their heads by
picking different primaries. Maybe something does "go out of the eyes" when
we look at somebody. That implies a whole different set of explanations that
would have to grow up.
Anyway, my question is--what if "primary" is something thought tries to do,
but the universe, Bohm's "holomovement," my "non-local, a-temporal network,"
what if THAT doesn't deal in primaries, but more or less erects realities
from any and all elements on the spot.
Stretching language here a bit, but it's fun… :-)
Best,
Michael
Michael Reddy, PhD, CPC, ELI-MP
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.reddyworks.com
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