The Golden Middle

The Golden Middle

All reality manifests through consciousness. And consciousness consists exclusively of subjective, individual experience: firstly somatic and sensory, and secondarily mental and conceptual. All the so called "objective entities" are 100% reducible to sensory and conceptual elements within human perception.

Their "independent existence" is no more than a presumption. We can, of course, presume existence outside of consciousness, but there is no way to prove it. Neither existence nor nonexistence outside of consciousness may be proven, because all proving is done through consciousness. Thus, whatever we manage to show, will invariably reside within consciousness. And that which presumably exists (or does not exist) outside of consciousness, still shell remain an open question.

Presuming is an act of mind, and as such, it constitutes an integral part of consciousness. Therefore, claiming that in fact there is (or isn't) an objective existence outside of consciousness amounts to a logical inconsistency. It simply cannot be known.

A dimension outside consciousness may by postulated only by consciousness. In order to confirm it, it would be necessary for consciousness to transcend itself. This, however, cannot be done, unless consciousness commits an act self-negation.

Only a consciousness which denies itself as such can claim to know objective reality, independent of the relationship with consciousness. Sadly, this is what happens routinely in our logically impeded civilization. What follows is a breakdown of the standard model of the perceptive relationship, which necessitates both the subject and the object. Such partial perceptivity produces a false notion that the objective world is primary and independent.

While reasoning according to the inculcated standards, you recognize various objects all around you, but you fail to recognize a much more essential existence of your own ability to perceive them. Thus, a human subject, which warrants all existence by the defining criteria ends up being implicitly negated. It actually negates itself.

This is how you become a fallen being - an impotent, who interprets reality based on self-negation. You acknowledge your own existence strictly because of your body, which you see as belonging to the same category as other objects. So, you consider yourself a physical object rather than a sovereign_and_self-defining_conscious_subject.

Incidentally (or maybe not!), the English language ascribes two opposite meanings to the word ‘subject’:

1) subject as mind, or conscious element as opposed to objects (the less commonly known definition);

2) subject as a subservient being, under the power and authority of others.

This linguistic dissonance affects you at the subconscious level, making it difficult to recognize yourself as sovereign_and_self defining_conscious_subjects.

Instead, you tend to understand being a subject in the other sense. As a self-negating conscious being, you easily accept yourself as a servile subject with respect to the social SYSTEM, without noticing any inconsistency. If that happens, you no longer define your own reality, but instead you allow yourself to be defined by the social being (by social reality, and those who control it).

There is also another extreme, partial perceptivity of the opposite kind. It is called solipsism. It is much less common than the self-negation, and yet it is equally wrong. It negates the external realm. It acknowledges only one’s own consciousness.

Negation of other human beings by the elitist solipsists is just as groundless and illogical as the self-negation practiced by human multitudes. So, it looks like our planet sports two opposite categories of half-wittedness: one which claims that there is nothing outside subjectivity of the mind, and the other one which denies its own subjectivity and maintains that there is only objective existence.

But the realm outside of consciousness is unknown by definition. As such, it comprises of the full spectrum of imaginable and unimaginable possibilities. It amounts to an all-inclusive, infinite potential. Nothing specific may be established or ruled out about its nature. All presumptions, however, are equally justifiable\unjustifiable and equally likely\unlikely. Yet, too often we tend to forget that our presumptions concerning that which is beyond the reach of our perception are no more than pure FAITH – unverifiable and completely free of empirical basis.

Still, the domain outside the reach of our perception constitutes the most powerful tool in our hands. Since everything hinges upon the realm unknown, we may legitimately assign a freely chosen context to local world we know empirically. Thus we can define our own reality, giving it sense and meaning of our choice.

So, the ultimate reality is such that it may be defined by our choices, and not by objective factors, which are presumed to predefine it. Forgetting that it is so leads inescapably to mounting limitations, and to an eventual downfall.

We should make conscious choices keeping in mind that the postulates we make are totally arbitrary, and BECOME reality only because we accepted them as initial axioms. This is how the free will works. This is how we create our world and ourselves.

Our present day fallen civilization is in large measure the result of our inability to distinguish these two essentially different approaches.

A healthy knowledge must constitute a bipolar, mutual relationship, necessitating both: a subject and an object. By negating either one we invariably fall into depravity and derailment.

So, do not negate yourself. In order for anything to exist, first and foremost there must be you, as the awareness which receives the stream of conscious flow. This is why all entities which manifest through your consciousness confirm you as their recipient, regardless of the secondary meanings that may be assigned to them.

Likewise, do not negate others, like the solipsists do. You have every right to assume an independent subjectivity in all other beings who manifest within your consciousness – thus reciprocating the self-confirmation which they oblige you with.

Only a fully bilateral relation may produce true stability. The golden middle is the state of balance.

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