Sections

# Pondering the nature of the Universe 1

# Three false views 1

# A fresh start 2

# A speck of thought/awareness in a feeling Universe 2

# The mind-body problem and the concept of ‘mind’ 3

# I am a speck of thought/awareness, therefore I am 3

# The currant bun 4

# Thought/awareness is a singular entity 4

# Computation 5

# Awareness cannot exist without thought 5

# What we think, we become 6

# We are what we feel 6

# What we feel, we become 7

# The origin of thought in feeling 7

# Specks of thought/awareness emerge in animal brains 7

# The observed Universe 8

# The Universal Feeling Body, the unobserved Universe, the observed Universe, and the Universe 8

# The chasm in the Universal Feeling Body and the segregation of the animal body 10

# The two bodies of a speck of thought/awareness 10

# What is a feeling? 11

# What is a node of feeling? 11

# The rule of association/embeddedness 11

# What is a thing? 12

# What is a part? 16

# The nature of feeling radiation 17

# Changing bonds = new things 19

# Three levels of feeling and the two mini-chasms 20

# The two mini-chasms and the three modes of the Universe 20

# High intensity feeling 21

# Feeling origination in a tree 21

# The origination and radiation of feelings 22

# Nodes of feeling, the three levels of feeling, and the three modes of the Universe 22

# Nodes of feeling and degree of embeddedness intertwine to determine the feeling intensity in a thing 23

# A speck of thought/awareness is a ‘qualityless window’ 24

# A speck of thought/awareness’s embeddedness with its animal body 26

# A speck of thought/awareness’s embeddedness with its Universal Feeling Body – the awareness of feelings in the animal body that originate outside of the animal body 26

# A speck of thought/awareness’s embeddedness with its Universal Feeling Body – the direct awareness of feelings that exist outside of the animal body 28

# Spectacles, toes, and a rabbit 29

# Why does a speck of thought/awareness become aware of a feeling? 30

# Universal feeling unfoldment and the non-awareness of the feelings that are one’s home 31

# The Cornish pasty and the mattress – the forging and unforging of things within the Universal Feeling Body 32

# The Cornish pasty, the parrot, and the mattress – the feelings that a speck of thought/awareness becomes aware of 34

# Universal unfolding to increasingly intense feelings 37

# Feelings are movements 39

# The appearance of movement and non-movement 39

# The movement pattern of life 40

# The continuous two-way causation between feelings and movements 41

# The direct and indirect movements of a speck of thought/awareness 41

# The evolution of the visual sense to meet the needs of animals 42

# Esse est percipi and the Universal Moving Body 43

# Visual sensing and the creation of conceptual mouldings 45

# Visual sensing on an alien planet 46

# Perception without awareness 48

# The two types of embeddedness, and the question: Where is the location of origination of a feeling? 49

# The misery of the pet shop 50

# The 3am awakening and the misattribution of feeling 51

# Nodes of feeling and things are saturated with memories 52

# The storage of feeling memories and the creation of ‘shining beacons’ 53

# Shining beacons of feeling 54

# No feeling is an island; networks of feelings 55

# The concepts of the observed Universe and the baby in the womb 56

# High intensity feelings enliven and amplify each other 57

# Feeling memory/recognition/familiarity 57

# Changing bonds of embeddedness and feeling amplification 58

# Two associated nodes have a single bond; two associated parts have an immense plethora of bonds 59

# The plethora of gradations of feeling associations 60

# A body within the body 61

# Moulded parts are collections of feeling nodes and are components of things 61

# The leaching of feelings from animal bodies 62

# The differential visual sensing and conceptual moulding of nodes and modes 63

# Movement patterns in the observed Universe versus the unobservable ‘one giant movement pattern’ 64

# The ‘two-headed kangaroo’ 65

# Is it a kangaroo, a flock of birds, or the Solar System? 67

# Medium-grained sensing 71

# The Stages of Universal Unfoldment 72

# The disgusting conception 73

# The Stages of Universal Unfoldment – the two standpoints 73

# Awareness participates in increasingly complex thought 74

# The purpose of specks of thought/awareness within the Stages of Universal Unfoldment 74

# The mapping of human conceptual divisions onto the Universal Feeling Body 76

# The mapping of the conceptual divisions of non-human animals 78

# Experiencing the Universal Feeling Body 79

# Two groups of feeling – attraction and repulsion – provide the pathway that is Universal Unfoldment 80

# A part is not a thing 81

# Feelings of repulsion 82

# Feelings of attraction 83

# Feelings of attraction and repulsion are specific to particular parts 84

# The movements of the Universal Feeling Body – the currantless bun 85

# The movements of the Universal Feeling Body – specks of thought/awareness 85

# The movements of the Universal Feeling Body – the steering of the animal body 87

# The movements of the Universal Feeling Body – conclusion 87

# The purpose of human existence 88

# The flourishing of individual human bodies 88

# The actualisation of potentials throughout the Universe 89

# The dynamic interplay between feelings, specks of thought/awareness, and abilities/skills/aptitudes 90

# Autopilot 91

# Feelings guide actions 92

# The diverse range of expressions of the Universal Feeling Body 92

# The feeling state of the Solar-Systic whole 93

# The ingestion and digestion of feelings 95

# Pain and suffering – the poisoned chalice of the gift that is thought/awareness 96

# An exploration of pain and suffering in the Universe 97

# Suffering from negative thought spirals 98

# The lawnmower and the distinctive types of movement in the Universal Feeling Body 99

# The storage of thought 100

# Feelings of pain versus being ‘in pain’ 100

# Ingesting animals versus ingesting plants 101

# Fruits/vegetables/nuts/fungi – waning feeling intensity and waning feeling purity 103

# Meat – waning feeling intensity and increasing feeling purity 104

# Ingestion and digestion – two conclusions 104

# Dairy and eggs 104

# Sites of deeply embedded feeling versus sites of scattered feeling 105

# An exploration of various phenomena 107

# Fire, earthquakes, hurricanes, bulldozers and nuclear bombs 107

# Planets 108

# Water 108

# Phantom limbs 109

# Solar radiation 110

# Radio waves and cables 111

# The feeling evolution of human culture 111

# The globalised world of today 111

# The interactions of feelings 112

# The enlivening boost in feeling 112

# Walking on feelings 114

# Jumping on grass 115

# The return of the spectacles, the toes, and the rabbit 116

# The feeling associations of a tree 117

# Human concepts are collections of nodes of a particular level of feeling; and, these concepts might, or might not, correspond to a concrete difference in the Universal Feeling Body 118

# The feeling associations of the Universal Feeling Body 120

# Becoming overwhelmed by feeling – density and quality of feeling 121

# Becoming overwhelmed by feeling – levels of feeling 122

# Becoming overwhelmed by thought – negative thought spirals 123

# Becoming overwhelmed – conclusion: there are no islands 123

# The senses of the human body 124

# Tastes = smells = sounds = bodily sensations = touches = feelings 124

# A melodious/spicy/aching/musty feeling 125

# Music 126

# The feeling of speech is divorced from its linguistic content 126

# The auditory sense – the awareness of the feelings of one’s Universal Feeling Body 127

# The sense of smell – the awareness of the feelings of one’s Universal Feeling Body 128

# The sense of taste – the awareness of the feelings of one’s Universal Feeling Body 129

# The sense of touch – the awareness of the feelings of one’s Universal Feeling Body 129

# Bodily sensations – the awareness of the feelings of one’s human body 130

# The labelling of feelings 130

# The visual sense – visual perception is visual sensing and conceptual moulding 131

# The moulded Universe versus the unmoulded Universe 132

# The awareness of sounds=feelings 133

# The synthesis of the moulding of parts in visual perception and the categorisation of feeling in auditory sensing 134

# Mouldings of the Universal Feeling Body versus awareness of the Universal Feeling Body 134

# The currantless bun versus an unobservable division 135

# Science 136

# Physics and chemistry 136

# Ethics 136

# Movement patterns, feelings, and abilities/skills/aptitudes 137

# Personal identity 138

# Beauty 139

# Recap 140

# The world of pure feeling 141

# The sliding scale of embeddedness of a speck of thought/awareness 143

# A brighter flowing torch within a dimmer flowing torch 146

# Are there things as large as our Solar System? 148

# Is the Universe one thing? In other words, is the Universe the dimmer torch? 149

# The storage of visual perceptions, auditory sensings, and auditory outputs 150

# Animal actions – thoughts versus feelings 152

# Feelings determine thoughts 152

# The causes of thought 153

# Thoughts do not determine feelings 153

# The causes of actions/movements 154

# Movements/actions determine feelings – the Moon and the lunatic 155

# Feeling is the fundamental force: Why does any entity move? 155

# The causes of one’s thoughts 156

# Feelings are ‘king’ 157

# The existence and nature of ‘free will’ 158

# The human auditory sense and the feelings of the chalkboard 159

# Where are the feelings that are auditorily sensed located? 160

# “You are in trouble” 161

# The meaning of uttered words is to be found in their feeling content 161

# Visual perceptions are conceptual mouldings of structured sensings 162

# Apparent non-movement is due to the structure of a visual sensing 162

# The animal body is bathed in light waves 163

# Partial glimpses 164

# The ostracization of the human body from the Universal Feeling Body 165

# The two routes to the existence of feelings within an animal body, and reaching outside of the animal body 165

# The subset of feelings in a speck of thought/awareness’s Universal Feeling Body 166

# Body A, Speck A, Body B, Feeling B 167

# Simultaneous simplicity and complexity 168

# Rapidly changing torrents of feeling 169

# The human body is a beacon of feeling 170

# The Universal Feeling Body is not changed through the act of observation 171

# Quantum mechanics 171

# The elimination of fuzziness and the simultaneous existence of multiple observed Universes 173

# Specks of thought/awareness are not fuzzy 179

# Colours are uninteresting 179

# Distinctive movements within a continuously moving whole 180

# Technological movements and the search for human-like aliens 181

# The intermediary – the giant borderless movement pattern 182

# The motionless observed Universe 183

# The origination of concepts in movement patterns 185

# Differential visual sensings of the perpetually moving blank canvas 187

# “I observe a helicopter” 188

# The three levels of feeling and the glorious zenith 189

# The kangaroo, the pogo stick, and the Chusan palm tree 190

# The movement of feeling versus the radiation of feeling 191

# Usain Bolt and the couch potato 192

# The falling tree and the primacy of ‘secondary qualities’ 192

# The primacy of feeling over thought 193

# Non-human animals 194

# The primacy of feeling over speech: the ‘creepy’ human 195

# The disjunct between thought and speech 196

# Reality is described by feelings, not by thoughts/words 196

# Tiny barges 196

# The primacy of feeling in spoken words: the broken human, ‘I am going to come and get you’, and undecipherable gobbledegook 197

# Feeling and body language 198

# The aspects of the Universal Feeling Body, and the categorisation of parts 199

# Appreciating one’s Universal Feeling Body 201

# The magical beauty of visual perception 203

# Dwelling in one’s experiences 203

# I have a beautiful body 204

# Creating the future 205

# Envisioning your Universal Feeling Body and exploring your human body 205

# The concept of mind 206

# I am a speck of thought/awareness, therefore I am 208

# Two types of entities – specks and feelings 208

# That which feels emerges that which does not feel 209

# The ‘brain activity’ movement pattern and the ‘speck of thought/awareness’ movement pattern 209

# Why a speck of thought/awareness has an intermittent existence 211

# General anaesthetics and sleep 211

# What is the movement pattern that generates a speck of thought/awareness? 212

# What is instant radiation throughout a thing? 212

# What is an observation? 213

# Implications for physics 214

# Physics necessarily entails free will 216

# The exceptionally important gift 216

# Mystical environmental philosophy 216

# Human purpose and the universal pursuit of ecstasy 218

# Further information 218