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Mark,
Thought it might be fun to share this in the Newsletter, mostly for those
that have worked with it before.
There are two sets of Sequence of Encounter. The first is:
Experience --> Perception --> Cognition --> Effect
As you might remember, these are not conventional distinctions. In our
language we don't make these distinctions but blur them as pretty much the
same thing, and live primarily at the effect of everything. But it's a long
story, best told in when we're together and can work through what they are
"experientially" rather than merely hear about them intellectually.
The second breakdown starts at Cognition above and breaks it down further
into:
Interpretation --> Reaction Sensation --> Meaning --> Reaction Appearance
Reaction Appearance is the same thing as Effect, it is what appears to us
as a reaction or what we'd commonly call our "experience" so you can see how
far this is from what is called Experience above (which is more like direct
experience). Reaction Sensation is too subtle to grasp here; so we have
mainly Interpreting what is Perceived (which is a meaningless phenomenon),
and giving it meaning and charge, it is to this meaning and charge that we
react or are affected.
Hope this refreshes your memory.
Regarding the Golden Rule I think the essence of it is the basis for all
agreements between peoples. I think we all would be better off understanding
this essence and and making this agreeement.
Peter
Thought it might be fun to share this in the Newsletter, mostly for those
that have worked with it before.
There are two sets of Sequence of Encounter. The first is:
Experience --> Perception --> Cognition --> Effect
As you might remember, these are not conventional distinctions. In our
language we don't make these distinctions but blur them as pretty much the
same thing, and live primarily at the effect of everything. But it's a long
story, best told in when we're together and can work through what they are
"experientially" rather than merely hear about them intellectually.
The second breakdown starts at Cognition above and breaks it down further
into:
Interpretation --> Reaction Sensation --> Meaning --> Reaction Appearance
Reaction Appearance is the same thing as Effect, it is what appears to us
as a reaction or what we'd commonly call our "experience" so you can see how
far this is from what is called Experience above (which is more like direct
experience). Reaction Sensation is too subtle to grasp here; so we have
mainly Interpreting what is Perceived (which is a meaningless phenomenon),
and giving it meaning and charge, it is to this meaning and charge that we
react or are affected.
Hope this refreshes your memory.
Regarding the Golden Rule I think the essence of it is the basis for all
agreements between peoples. I think we all would be better off understanding
this essence and and making this agreeement.
Peter
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