On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Bruno Marchal <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
