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Wednesday, 30 December 2020
The only thing you can do or not do is to take the phenomenological stance towards ongoing experience. And if you do take it up the terms of reference are no longer obvious, there are only different possibilities to explore, so that if the question arises as to whether you have done anything at all other than afflict your mind with a sort of psychic cross-eyed-ness, this cannot be answered on the basis of the assumptions of the natural attitude. You have entered a peculiarly watery medium where subject and object are not distinguished but flow into each other, and where certain concepts remain but with unfamiliar faces, looming like obstructing rocks in this weightless world, obstacles that can be gotten around if you can only find the way. The test of all of this however is in letting go of the gesture that constitutes the reduction and seeing if you emerge in a different nature to the one you started from. This never happens, but the gesture becomes so habitual that it even the boundaries of the natural world with a shimmering refractive fringe.
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