On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> > On 03 Jun 2015, at 14:58, Terren Suydam wrote: > > > It would be like saying that bats' echolocation is an illusion. Not a > perfect analogy, because a bat's facility for echolocation is rooted in its > physiology, not constructed, but the point is that with both the ego and > echolocation, the experiencer's consciousness is provided with a particular > character it would not otherwise have been able to experience. > > > I usually distinguish 8 forms of ego (the eight hypostases). Each time it > is the sigma_1 reality, but viewed from a different angle. The illusion > (with the negative connotations) are more in the confusion between two > hypostases, than each hypostase per se. > I am not sure we disagree, except on some choice of words. > > Bruno > I agree that we agree :-) I know you've posted it in the past but can you point me to a summary of the original Plotinus model with the 8 hypostases? My cursory googling reveals only 3 attributed to Plotinus (One, Intellect, Soul). Terren -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
