Just another feminist, atheist, humanist, polyamourous, erotic-positive scallywag. S/he who is a complete sex-and-gender rebel, who lives radical trans [(F or M) → x]. S/he who once, reasonably enough, called herself bisexual, but not anymore, because sex-and-gender dimorphism is a misguided model. S/he who has faith in an objective, material and scientific world. S/he who loves freedom of expression, limited constitutional government, free-markets, art and music. S/he who is a romantic, a radical individualist and libertarian. S/he who believes in the direct equation between the divine, the transcendental and the erotic. S/he who is XX, but considers that to be of little significance. And who is often on her knees in adoration before her friends and lovers, who are to be most devoutly revered and desired. Or lecturing them, a wagging finger pointed upwards as in "The School of Athens".
I like this vid. It’s not quite that the observer and the observed are the same thing. Rather, it is that:
(a) we inhabit the same realm of existence, and hence dualistic models of external reality and internal consciousness are false. Dangerously false and paranoid, which is why theories of solipsism are not respectable philosophy, but the reductio ad absurdam of “masculine” egotism and fear.
(b) consciousness and existence are inextricably intertwined. Given a geometry of suitably high dimensions, we would see consciousness flowing over and within reality, like glistening mercury spilling across richly worked surfaces.
(c) the idea of a private, isolated self is wrong. Each of us is conjured and conceived in a deeply interpersonal space, incorporating fragments, echoes and precognitions of each other. The primary relation between us is reverential love. People who do not love each other enough are regretably blind to this interpersonality. The trick is for us to have a secure sense of self that is playfully permeable to each other’s feelings. With that, there is almost nothing that creativity cannot do 🙂 .
This is all a bit mystical, but that is what my heart tells me.
Such sharing and creativity can be experienced in, for instance, what is customarily called “making love”, though in the minds of many “XY-people-with-penises-who-think-of-themselves-as-masculine-in-their-psycho-social-makeup “, this has a reductive, genitally focused and obsessive quality.
For me it means to hold hands, talk and talk, and to kiss and embrace and talk some more, for hours ;-0
Destination
August 9, 2009 by andreaandrewmilne
Dear Emily,
I like this vid. It’s not quite that the observer and the observed are the same thing. Rather, it is that:
(a) we inhabit the same realm of existence, and hence dualistic models of external reality and internal consciousness are false. Dangerously false and paranoid, which is why theories of solipsism are not respectable philosophy, but the reductio ad absurdam of “masculine” egotism and fear.
(b) consciousness and existence are inextricably intertwined. Given a geometry of suitably high dimensions, we would see consciousness flowing over and within reality, like glistening mercury spilling across richly worked surfaces.
(c) the idea of a private, isolated self is wrong. Each of us is conjured and conceived in a deeply interpersonal space, incorporating fragments, echoes and precognitions of each other. The primary relation between us is reverential love. People who do not love each other enough are regretably blind to this interpersonality. The trick is for us to have a secure sense of self that is playfully permeable to each other’s feelings. With that, there is almost nothing that creativity cannot do 🙂 .
This is all a bit mystical, but that is what my heart tells me.
Such sharing and creativity can be experienced in, for instance, what is customarily called “making love”, though in the minds of many “XY-people-with-penises-who-think-of-themselves-as-masculine-in-their-psycho-social-makeup “, this has a reductive, genitally focused and obsessive quality.
For me it means to hold hands, talk and talk, and to kiss and embrace and talk some more, for hours ;-0
Regards and ♥, andrea
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