09-08-2013, 02:36 PM
(09-08-2013, 02:17 PM)Gemini Wolf Wrote: Zen, I saw you use the word "conflated" before. Would conflated apply to the awareness of connection to something transcendent? (Your second definition of oneness). Is it conflated awareness?I tend to use "conflated" only when the potential exists for a distinction, yet there is a choice not to use discernment. So a concept is conflated only when the opportunity exists to make the distinction yet for some reason ambiguity or vagueness is relied upon to make a claim or to promote a suggestion. Vagueness always suggests infinity and infinity feels good because it is a symbol and reminder of wholeness. And new-age people use it to deflect or weasel out of evaluating experience.
Ambiguity is also offered to let the mind fill in the blanks with what it wants to see (again suggesting infinite possibility). The intuition always perceives with some amount of ambiguity which is later determined through rational evaluation.