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Matisse, Marrying the Lady of Space, & Cognitive Yoga

'Entrance to the Kasbah' by Henri Matisse (1912) provides a wonderful invitation to enter into the world of pure color. We find that the dimensions of regular space have collapsed as we gently dive into the painting. What could be recognized as a doorway in everyday consciousness, becomes turned inside out and topsy turvy, when we separate out our mental images, memories, personal ideas, and projections of desire and control from our moment by moment experience of pure color. We become the 3 dimensional doorway, as the red pours into us. We fill the space outside our past body. We engage ourselves, or gently propose to marry the multicolored woman of space. She was once invisible but now her pregnant full body is everywhere, in every nook and cranny. And behind her is another mother, multicolored, rainbow life. She weds me in ever moving, ever metamorphosing color and hue and shade. But my I is now awake, and I turn to the thinking pole, which opens up a new realm of archetypal invisible meaning life, behind and between every color. And what is in between the pulse of thinking and the pulse of color?  Do I sense the flood of time? Do I hear the moral call of the unheard speech of color calling to me?

Herbart, Badiou and the Spiritualization of Logic

                                                                 sculpture by Tomohiro Inaba



Herbart, Lehrbuch, Pt. II, Die Logik, 77.

“The given concept has n marks. If we leave one away, then a higher concept arises in

whose extent it lies. If we leave one more away, then a still higher concept arises, etc., until

only one mark remains, which allows no further abstraction. However, we can leave out a

mark in n different ways; this gives the number of n higher concepts to which the given

one can be subordinated. The theory of combination proves further how many concepts

will be found on each higher level.”

We can see here that if we can stay awake on the virtual blockchain when we are removing the marks, we can also open soul windows into the land where the spiritual concepts become apparent. We make the move of experiencing the erasing as an extraction to the void outside the concept-activity (directly viewed in supersensible intuition). Then we find, that the heart (now spread out in the world) can perceive the creative human activity of linking, turning, and folding and unfolding concepts on the concept-virtual-plane (the same as the river of flowing proto-light virtual blockchain). To spiritualize this (or allow it to be nourished by the spiritual world), we can then look into the moral validity issues of each move of the concept. This becomes a conscious co-working with the spiritual moods, development and beings that work in the world as living and loving thought-spirit-actors.

Apples and Cognitive Yoga

Behold the red apple:  In it we find the cosmic and earthly combined. In its redness and sweetness, it holds part of the secret of the I, disappearing and reappearing in the living poles of north and south. Now, dissolve the red apple into the deep blue sky. When it disappears, but you remain awake, the golden light of spiritual resurrection may return from all sides, bringing light into the darkness, if God wills it. Now, find the living concept of the Apple, beyond image and take your spiritual feeling out to meet it. There you will hear the silence of the gas flame burning and you will feel its warmth. All tone and images disappear, but the wakefulness of the I-World breathing remains. Through vast doorways, the Spirit-I comes to meet the human-I, and the spirit of the heart awakens as a center, filled with the pain of self-knowledge, but also hope. If you eat the cosmic sweetness in pure heavenly light, you will lose the way. If you only enjoy the earthly apple in complacent sensible taste, you will fall asleep in deception. But, if you can transform the dying apple into life, paralyze and localize the spiritual apple into death, you will find the spiritually transforming human spirit in Christ.

In this process, one must know and become a multiple group of beings: the witch, snow white, the dwarves, the forest, the poisoning-wakening apple, and the prince - all working through the creative harmony of the spirit-I.