There is passive feeling, that is feeling whatever I happen to be feeling while I am in this situation. And there is an ‘active feeling’, that is a transformation in affect, closer to ‘sensing the root of the Source as it is present in this situation’, and to a sort of meta-feeling, the act of observing the ways in which I am conditioned to feel and sublimate the compulsion to take the same route.
Passive affectivity is compulsive affectivity, kindling a passive, semi-automatic form of perception, that opens the door for the enactment of default forms of representation of what is real, that crank up justificatory loops, either discursive
or, more generally, behavioral’.
‘I am doing it again.’ Freud called it ‘repetition compulsion’.
Active imagination appears to be the iterative practice of the psychedelic self, unchained (or at least partially liberated) from the tyranny of default fabrications.
"First feeling, then perceiving." Would you say that active imagination begins in passivity, receiving? Before anything can be minded into a whole? In my circles, passive is a bad word.
While we are chatting, I was most intrigued by your recent speculation along the lines that we are going to learn that the genome is historical architecture not a process. The process being engagement, response, participation in the world. Which is not historical but right now.
There is passive feeling, that is feeling whatever I happen to be feeling while I am in this situation. And there is an ‘active feeling’, that is a transformation in affect, closer to ‘sensing the root of the Source as it is present in this situation’, and to a sort of meta-feeling, the act of observing the ways in which I am conditioned to feel and sublimate the compulsion to take the same route.
Passive affectivity is compulsive affectivity, kindling a passive, semi-automatic form of perception, that opens the door for the enactment of default forms of representation of what is real, that crank up justificatory loops, either discursive
or, more generally, behavioral’.
‘I am doing it again.’ Freud called it ‘repetition compulsion’.
Active imagination appears to be the iterative practice of the psychedelic self, unchained (or at least partially liberated) from the tyranny of default fabrications.
"First feeling, then perceiving." Would you say that active imagination begins in passivity, receiving? Before anything can be minded into a whole? In my circles, passive is a bad word.
It would be a stretch to say tha "active" imagination comes from passive state, but another word might be "receptive."
Yes, receive and return.
While we are chatting, I was most intrigued by your recent speculation along the lines that we are going to learn that the genome is historical architecture not a process. The process being engagement, response, participation in the world. Which is not historical but right now.