Adam 'n Eve - Metaphysics of spirit v instinct
Completion of the Upper Triad under Sign-use
Adam and Eve
and The Metaphysics of Spirit over Instinct
The term “upper triad” in this psychosemiotic system refers to the 7-6-5 token-levels of sign-use in the Universal TokenSpace matrix*. It’s three key token-types (God, S*, I) can be imagined linked by imaginary lines, as a triangle. This step in active imagination, assumed taken, abstracts the three levels from any variable content, giving the representation of a self-contained functional unit of conscious experience, the arena of mental work using signs, with self-awareness, addressing Totality.
These mark the theological, philosophical and existential levels of discourse, ‘I’ using S* (thought) for (the) All = completed intellectual work bringing whatever is experienced under predicates for items wholly contained in the present conscious moment (e.g., “ideas”, strictly speaking).
Some (“believers”, those who accept the metaphysics of a given tradition) might (do, in fact) claim to ‘encounter’ an Objective Thou, a sense of presence, or spirit, which IS a manifestation of the completion, or “God”, of the universe in their experience. To these, objectivity obliges one to say: “However fervently this is maintained, it is still individual personal content. Certainly, special individuals experience things others don’t, but that whatever that is is still a subjective experience of that person. Without further evidence for claims based on it, others are not obliged to accept such claims; nor should they be expected to. Consciousness trumps thought. What some say they "encounter" as an Objective Thou in individual experience, as a real experience, can be explained as a flashback of the phantom placenta from the fetal origins of experience. L. deMause has shown the placenta to be the First Object relating in a "mysterious" way to the tiny but growing awareness, integrating its reactions, finally battled against at the end to achieve freedom and birth.
It is essential to consider these inter-related strata as a functional unit separate from content of conscious containing components that are not wholly contained in the present conscious moment, such as the perception of a physical environment in which one many move bodily about. The lower triad of token levels 3-2-1 passes from content of gestalt awareness of body in motion in physical space (3), trough the qualitaty/intensive awareness (2), to dreams (1).
It is functionally crucial for the upper triad to be completed, in a separate ‘story’ of consciousness through thought “under God,” in order to prevent consciousness from finding its completion in the body – e.g. (5) predicates spiritualizing (3) –events (procreative voluptuosities). The principle of the lower triad is pleasure; that of the upper triad, self-knowledge. Unless self-knowledge is distinguished from knowledge of the body, completion of life will be seen in the acme of pleasure, the orgastic sexual response, with involuntary rhythmic muscle contractions, releasing huge amounts of accumulated psychic and anatomical tension. The powerful effect of this experience spreads its influence over all levels and content in which the person is aware of themselves as individual living organisms, with potency (“will to be”). The range of feelings that go with it, deep, subtle, abiding, are the basis in self-awareness of what Freud called “libido”, as I understand it. Carl Jung spoke more generically of “psychic energy”, commonly manifesting as “interest”. This relieves metaphysics of reliance on biology for the ultimate dynamic driving the psychic system. .
This distinction between the two triads, and their respective completions in God, for the upper, sexual orgasm, for the lower, explains the theology of Genesis, which I had never understood, considered a kind of childhood tale, almost a farce, that the Creator of the Universe should be peeking about in the Garden, busting Adam and Eve for doing it, knowing full-well they would, or no generations would breed. It occurred to me in connection with many ancient things recorded in the Bible that profound meanings and deep truth could be buried in simple stories, but this one? -it seems almost obviously a charming child’s tale, whatever the historical facts may have been. It is the origin in human civilization of what Freud called “repression”, bringing the sexual life under punishment from the Almighty, addressed as Father. The beginning under Moses of a long struggle in men between spirit against instinct to achieve higher (sublimated) forms of expression.
The theological level of discourse posits one sign, “God”, in English, as the completion of all totalities, where a “totality” is the extension of a predicate, P (i.e., the set of individuals to which P applies, or of which “x is P” is true.). Thus, of “P” is the predicate of all predicates of actual sign-uses, “God (Px)” predicates all that exists (under sign-use) as “of God”, or “under God”. This follows the same logical pattern as saying that as Animal is predicated of all mammals, and Mammal of all humans, whatever is predicated of x (‘this man’ at random), qua human, is predicated under Animal, therefore attributes consistent with its species. This is how logical stratification works. What belongs to the higher level predicate is passed along and distributed to whatever comes under the lower.
Adam and Eve
and The Metaphysics of Spirit over Instinct
The term “upper triad” in this psychosemiotic system refers to the 7-6-5 token-levels of sign-use in the Universal TokenSpace matrix*. It’s three key token-types (God, S*, I) can be imagined linked by imaginary lines, as a triangle. This step in active imagination, assumed taken, abstracts the three levels from any variable content, giving the representation of a self-contained functional unit of conscious experience, the arena of mental work using signs, with self-awareness, addressing Totality.
These mark the theological, philosophical and existential levels of discourse, ‘I’ using S* (thought) for (the) All = completed intellectual work bringing whatever is experienced under predicates for items wholly contained in the present conscious moment (e.g., “ideas”, strictly speaking).
Some (“believers”, those who accept the metaphysics of a given tradition) might (do, in fact) claim to ‘encounter’ an Objective Thou, a sense of presence, or spirit, which IS a manifestation of the completion, or “God”, of the universe in their experience. To these, objectivity obliges one to say: “However fervently this is maintained, it is still individual personal content. Certainly, special individuals experience things others don’t, but that whatever that is is still a subjective experience of that person. Without further evidence for claims based on it, others are not obliged to accept such claims; nor should they be expected to. Consciousness trumps thought. What some say they "encounter" as an Objective Thou in individual experience, as a real experience, can be explained as a flashback of the phantom placenta from the fetal origins of experience. L. deMause has shown the placenta to be the First Object relating in a "mysterious" way to the tiny but growing awareness, integrating its reactions, finally battled against at the end to achieve freedom and birth.
It is essential to consider these inter-related strata as a functional unit separate from content of conscious containing components that are not wholly contained in the present conscious moment, such as the perception of a physical environment in which one many move bodily about. The lower triad of token levels 3-2-1 passes from content of gestalt awareness of body in motion in physical space (3), trough the qualitaty/intensive awareness (2), to dreams (1).
It is functionally crucial for the upper triad to be completed, in a separate ‘story’ of consciousness through thought “under God,” in order to prevent consciousness from finding its completion in the body – e.g. (5) predicates spiritualizing (3) –events (procreative voluptuosities). The principle of the lower triad is pleasure; that of the upper triad, self-knowledge. Unless self-knowledge is distinguished from knowledge of the body, completion of life will be seen in the acme of pleasure, the orgastic sexual response, with involuntary rhythmic muscle contractions, releasing huge amounts of accumulated psychic and anatomical tension. The powerful effect of this experience spreads its influence over all levels and content in which the person is aware of themselves as individual living organisms, with potency (“will to be”). The range of feelings that go with it, deep, subtle, abiding, are the basis in self-awareness of what Freud called “libido”, as I understand it. Carl Jung spoke more generically of “psychic energy”, commonly manifesting as “interest”. This relieves metaphysics of reliance on biology for the ultimate dynamic driving the psychic system. .
This distinction between the two triads, and their respective completions in God, for the upper, sexual orgasm, for the lower, explains the theology of Genesis, which I had never understood, considered a kind of childhood tale, almost a farce, that the Creator of the Universe should be peeking about in the Garden, busting Adam and Eve for doing it, knowing full-well they would, or no generations would breed. It occurred to me in connection with many ancient things recorded in the Bible that profound meanings and deep truth could be buried in simple stories, but this one? -it seems almost obviously a charming child’s tale, whatever the historical facts may have been. It is the origin in human civilization of what Freud called “repression”, bringing the sexual life under punishment from the Almighty, addressed as Father. The beginning under Moses of a long struggle in men between spirit against instinct to achieve higher (sublimated) forms of expression.
The theological level of discourse posits one sign, “God”, in English, as the completion of all totalities, where a “totality” is the extension of a predicate, P (i.e., the set of individuals to which P applies, or of which “x is P” is true.). Thus, of “P” is the predicate of all predicates of actual sign-uses, “God (Px)” predicates all that exists (under sign-use) as “of God”, or “under God”. This follows the same logical pattern as saying that as Animal is predicated of all mammals, and Mammal of all humans, whatever is predicated of x (‘this man’ at random), qua human, is predicated under Animal, therefore attributes consistent with its species. This is how logical stratification works. What belongs to the higher level predicate is passed along and distributed to whatever comes under the lower.
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