Messages from above and below (theory)

[Shane Hanlon]

If we consider our consciousness to be a holon with a larger being and smaller beings inside of us (cells and such), then the same way we get messages from below about bodily problems (pain - heat - sensation) we are likely to get messages from above as well (depression - excitement - purpose - contentment) things that feel larger and more ethereal. Something that would have to have a greater perspective than our own to truly understand.

[Nahm]

@Shane Hanlon

That’s really insightful. If there is another perspective, and you’re aware of this, can it truly be said to be a perspective? 

[Shane Hanlon]

@Nahm I'm not sure. If I look through a microscope and see my own cells, I can notice the aliveness and autonomy of each cell and yet not be aware of what it is like to be a cell from cell perspective 0 - just like I can look at you and become you from my perspective 0 and still not know what it is like to be you from your perspective 0.  I am told that cells work together to send messages that come into my awareness as sensations. I am aware of the sensation from my perspective. Still I don't know what it is like to be a sensation from it's perspective or a cell from it's perspective or you from your perspective.

 

I guess we are left assuming the existence of other perspectives inside of ours and perspectives that we may be inside of. Like how I assume you have a perspective 0 in the same way that I experience my perspective 0.

[Nahm]

@Shane Hanlon

Maybe the perspectives in that sense are just like the cells, one appears as two.