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This book is about the disruption of the intellect that awakens consciousness to its wholeness and purpose. When consciousness is fractured, its world-making powers are momentarily disrupted. In the gap, during which spatio-temporal categories of thought cease to apply, consciousness realigns with that which it is meant to serve. The moment of self-remembering-shocking, unique, and truthful-leaves a call to obedience in its wake. To refuse to respond is to cease to be human.
"Great originality and depth. Appelbaum is important and unique in modern philosophy." — Jacob Needleman, San Francisco State University
Introduction
Part I. Preliminary Collection
1. Instruments
The Blank of Mind
Inner Speaking
Inner Listening
2. Usages
Impressions
Perception of the Formless and Formless Perception
Two Digressions
Nirvikalpanic and Visayagatic Perception in Advaita Vedanta
On Visual Geometry
Recapitulation
Part II. Transition to Movement
3. Husserl and Internal Time Consciousness
4. Toward a Somatic Critique of Retentivity
5. The Betweenness of the Somatic Field
6. Digression on Projective Geometry
Part III. Transformation
7. The Interval
8. Objectivity and Meaning
9. Sympathy and the Plight of the Self
10. "Becoming Similar"
11. Nondisclosure
Part IV. Summons
12. Initiation
13. Suffering and the Passivity of the Subject
14. Effort and Praxis
15. Conscience
16. The Surpassing
Postscript. The Mighty
Notes
Bibliography
Index