Three linguistic themes or elements inform this narrative: virtual reality, philosophical Taoism, and altered states of awareness. The initial purpose of this symbolic experience is to enable us to become mindful of symbolic experience through exploring the three themes or linguistic elements of this essay. Ours is an excursion of words and words have their ways -- ways essentially...
This article describes how to extend somatic awareness in new directions, through an alternating series of theoretical models and self-reflexive exercises. I use the term somatic awareness to imply a first-person, here/now, sensory perception: how we feel, and know ourselves on a process level rather than on an image or object level, inferentially. One can summarize this theory using the form...
I INTEND IN THE FOLLOWING to make sense of Zen non-sense. Fundamental Zen terms like naturalness and emptiness and nothingness are used in disregard of the COIK principle: Clear Only If Known. For example, Shunryu Suzuki, a Zen master, said, It is absolutely necessary for everyone to believe in nothing. (Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice. New York and...