Hi Ben,

As always, you have ably contributed to the discussion - thank you! Regarding the holistic v. specific consciousness...I know that you are familiar with the arch diagram from my book The Intuitive Investor, yes? A new wrinkle that would be in a second edition is that sensations are the base brick on the wisdom/right-brain side and that them, coupled with non-attachment, results in intuition. Yet that side is informed by the left-brain's knowledge, memory and creativity. On the left-brain/intelligence side of the arch diagram we have knowledge as the base, followed by memory (i.e. recall) resulting in creativity. Yet, this side is informed by sensation, non-attachment, and intuition, too.

Why is this important? Memory and non-attachment/surrender both seem to survive their encounters with their opposite conscious states. In other words, the trick is to experience sensations without attachment. This is followed by choosing the words to describe your sensations accurately (next month's intuition piece). The prohibition against numbers and words is a prohibition against unconscious assignment of numbers and words to sensation as this is the (to my mind) source of reality distortion.

By the way, you are correct that "It's extraordinarily hard work, but the first time one is able to successfully tap into those sensations, it's a powerful experience." Would you care to share any of your experience in that space? I think it would benefit the serious experimenters out there.

Yours, in service,

Jason