Comments on: virtual decentering and other worlds http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=107 art, life, philosophy, architecture, literature, film, performance, and other stuff Thu, 21 May 2026 19:37:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Peter Francis Cerrato http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=107#comment-66 Peter Francis Cerrato Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:56:40 +0000 http://www.syntheticzero.com/?p=107#comment-66 This, from a study group I'm participating in, on the Shiva Sutras from the perspective of the South Indian ShriVidya tantrics seemed appropos : "4.0.12 Shivasutra does not regard our everyday world to be a product of error (mithya), misconstrued “superimposition” (adhyasa), misapprehension or ignorance (avidya), or a mere appearance (vivarta). The world that appears to us in waking, dreaming, and all other forms of experience, in every way at the sensual, heartfelt, and mindful level is entirely real insofar as it is experienced; it’s just never the only world(s) and in more worlds of experience there will be realities we never dared or considered or even remotely guessed could exist. What is at stake is not whether our experience is real but rather where to put it. Which world does it belong to? All such worlds may all be Light, as the Shivasutra assures us, but that doesn’t mean they are all the same. Not by a long shot, and likely nothing like what we might anticipate until we arrive at those experiences for ourselves. " This, from a study group I’m participating in, on the Shiva Sutras from the perspective of the South Indian ShriVidya tantrics seemed appropos :

“4.0.12
Shivasutra does not regard our everyday world to be a product of error (mithya),
misconstrued “superimposition” (adhyasa), misapprehension or ignorance
(avidya), or a mere appearance (vivarta). The world that appears to us in waking,
dreaming, and all other forms of experience, in every way at the sensual,
heartfelt, and mindful level is entirely real insofar as it is experienced; it’s just
never the only world(s) and in more worlds of experience there will be realities we
never dared or considered or even remotely guessed could exist. What is at stake
is not whether our experience is real but rather where to put it. Which world
does it belong to? All such worlds may all be Light, as the Shivasutra assures us,
but that doesn’t mean they are all the same. Not by a long shot, and likely
nothing like what we might anticipate until we arrive at those experiences for
ourselves.
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