When the One looks perspectively, from a particular place and a particular time

Ever-present Origin by koantum on Sun 21 Jan 2007 08:32 PM PST Profile Permanent Link Ulrich Mohrhoff Pondicherry

Both quantum mechanics and relativity, the two corner stones of contemporary physics, force us to conceive of a point of view that is at once a "view from nowhere" (as Thomas Nagel has called it) and a view from "nowhen" (as Huw Price has called it). This is the aperspectival view from Gebser's ever-present Origin as well as the supramental point of view, which both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother insisted cannot be rendered in mental terms. (It stands to reason: the perceptual quality of the spatiotemporal whole differs from the perceptual quality of space at least as much as the latter differs from the experiential quality of time.)

In Psychology all the way down I have tried to explain the psychological movements in the original space transcending consciousness that bring into being the world's spatial aspects. Basically this happens when the One ceases to view its manifestation from everywhere and everywhen at once and looks at it perspectively, from a particular place and a particular time.