I have piles of journals too arcane for anyone to read but me. This blog is intended to be a space that provides clarity to these ideas by giving them more substance and structure. In doing so, I hope to also provide a bridge for others to follow. This "teaching" has an unexpected effect of making the foundation stronger and easier for me to hold.
Part of the work I do is attempting to unify our ideas of the inside & the outside until there is no longer a distinction -- all the while without losing ourselves. This goes deep into our relationship with the world and making decisions on the nature of that world.
Most of modern thought believes "the world" is a physical place -- something outside of us that we have a limited ability to influence. Even most spiritual discussions devolve into discussing physical bodies that are suppose to be like radio tuners. Most people are stuck in the idea that we are ruled by atoms, cells and DNA. There is always another discovery, because this is part of the physical abyss. Most belief systems deal with accepting that which cannot be changed. This is not the position of Ex Inanis.
The objective nature of the universe serves at the behest of its subjective elements. If a building is the objective fact, then the bricks are the subjective explorations that built it. With effort, you can build new structures, or tear down old ones. * Another way to understand this is that there are no experiences which have more weight than others. When we give an experience a weight, it drags us down with it.
* Note, I do not believe we need to tear things down brick by brick. We just need to know where to plant the explosives.
Often, this is why we call the world suggestive, or an appearance, to help us remember this, rather than simply accept the world at face value. And it is important to remember this because in order to access new levels of knowledge, we must be able to hold certain truths long enough to see through them -- like holding a spyglass, we