So far we have been describing our rational construction of an environment of under-standing in terms of letters ABCD. However, if we are to penetrate further into the dynamics of under-standing, we will have to loosen the grip of reality that comes through those literary emblems.
To do this we will use simply the term ‘other’, because that is what they are. There can be no ‘things extant’ for absolute singleness – which is no more than the understanding of otherness – but from which comes all things in time and space. (how?)
The videos below describe the first seven moments* of existence for the singleness of understanding as a quadri-versal environment. It starts with the coming into view of the elementary moment, and describes the manner of each succeeding moment as a contained function of the previous moment. These ‘actuations’ form the ‘temporality’ (theoretical temporal structure) of understanding.
*seven is the most I could manage
Before going any further, I should explain that over the years I’ve been working on this, my understanding has of course developed. And because of this, all these videos all contain terms that reflected my understanding of the particular time that they were made. In this text I will always try to bridge the gap of meaning if it’s not obvious.
So what are we looking at in the above video?
The video commences with four ‘OTHERS’, of which the commentary states, ‘but there are- not four things • here • floating in space’. Well no, precisely, that was just the point I was trying to grasp and emphasize, that for the state of singleness, each OTHER is an environment of understanding, not a ‘thing’. And although these environments may well be comprehended by each other as a ‘thing’ from inside their common spacetime, that’s not where we are. We are as it were, the singleness of understanding trying to imagine its own structure – the so called temporal structure, or temporality of understanding.
‘Each other stands-under the others in cataclysmic obligation for its actual otherness’. Each alter-environment of understanding is obliged to the others for its very actuality as a constituent of absolute singleness. Hence it’s obligation is cataclysmic – world shattering. (Note again the term ‘actual’ referring to the prior state of singleness, compared to ‘real’ referring to the condition of singleness we know as existence.)
‘The constitution of each Other is nothing other than the sheer Otherness of it’s others.’ For absolute singleness, each OTHER – each alter-environment of understanding – must be constituted by the others, simply because there is no space or time to make them different from each other.
‘And because of this, each understands itself as Ourself’ – (which is always to be symbolized as the brackets.) The term ‘Ourself’ pertains to the absolute singleness which of itself has variable understanding. ‘Ourself’ is my rationalization of that variability from the perspective of being a thing in spacetime. ‘Ourself’ is to the actuality of absolute singleness what ‘ourselves’ is to the reality of things that exist in time and space. ‘Ourself’ is always capitalized because it is the name of the singularity.
‘But we are here thinking about Pure Singleness’. . . ‘prior-to-time’. . . ‘prior-to-space’. . . ‘for which each constituent other’. . . ‘is always already constituted as an Ourself’. . . ‘and these three constitute’. . . ‘the 2nd actuation of Ourself’. . . What I am trying to say here is that inasmuch as this is (my rationalization of) our prior state of absolute singleness, then all things (theoretical or not) must occur at the same (elementary) moment. In that case, inasmuch as each is constituted as the others to form an Ourself of (OTHER OTHER OTHER), then each is constituted as that which the others always already are – which is also (OTHER OTHER OTHER). This means that the 2nd temporal actuation of Ourself will be :
((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))
The 3rd will be :
(((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)))
The 4th will be :
((((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)))(((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)))(((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))((OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER)(OTHER OTHER OTHER))))
and so on. The point is that at each succeeding actuation ‘each other’ is actuated as that which the others already are, which is in effect ‘each other’. Instantly, each actuation of Ourself is contained in the preceding – all within the elementary moment.
Temporality as the singular environment of understanding, which the constituent others experience as spacetime. In the video below we take a notional ‘journey’ from what appears to be outside but which is actually inside the elementary moment – right to what appears to be the inside but is actually the outside of the elementary moment. Of course these relationships of interiority/exteriority are not spatial, but rather they are as understanding.