Mysticism The Void (philosophy)







peter matthiessen in snow leopard (1978) described experience of sitting on rocks in himalayas leading awareness of void @ centre, or source, of phenomenal existence: these hard rocks instruct bones in brain never grasp in heart sutra, form emptiness , emptiness form – void, emptiness of blue-black space, contained in everything.


for ken wilber in spectrum of consciousness (1977), void not mere nothingness, , therefore distinct can subsumed category of nihilism, , instead reality before slice conceptualism . here explores idea of sunyata, cannot called void or not void; or both or neither can referred void with, again, proviso exists beyond limit of language.


stanislav grof s distinction between holotropic , hylotropic experience important here, former encapsulating experiences connect void.








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