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The Sixth Jhāna (viññāṇañcāyatana):
"And at this point it is said: “By completely surmounting the base consisting of boundless space, [aware of] ‘unbounded consciousness’, he enters upon and dwells in the base consisting of boundless consciousness.”
In my theory, the Sixth Jhāna involves:
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If you remember from the last chapter, propriovisuality (PV): involved a 2D visual field that was modified by proprioception to make it 3D. Also in last chapter, the concepts of positive gestalts and negative gestalts were introduced. Let's attempt to combine these concepts.
If you pretend to feel something in front of you, or in your hand, you are doing a technique known in Buddhism as "kasina". You can imagine feeling various things, but most things you feel will be grouped into categories of phases of matter. For example, you can imagine feeling something wet, a liquid. That's a liquid kasina or water kasina. You can imagine feeling something hard or dry, a solid. That's a solid kasina or earth kasina. You can imagine feeling a mist or subtle pushback from wind. That's a gas kasina or air kasina. You can also imagine others like feeling electricity or heat or fire, a plasma kasina.
The contents of the kasina aren't very important right now, because the imagination is causing the feeling - invisible for now - at the skin, or tactile sensations. So really, what is important (for these kasinas now), are the boundary effects between the feeler (you) and the felt object (the kasina or tactile oneiric Qs). Since this is imagined, the kasina (or oneiric Qs) are only felt because you choose to feel them. Therefore, the kasina effect is from a self-imposed proprioceptional curtailing or restriction or self-imposed limitation that you simulate as a tactile sensation, when you simulate an encounter with the (oneiric) object, at some point or points in a space. It is like saying: "at points (x,y,z) (which can change over time as the kasina is simulated as moving in space) my proprioception will be restricted by me, and simulated there as an encounter with an object, because I am simulating my proprioception's contact with some kasina-object (gas, liquid, solid, plasma, etc.)." It's like putting an imagined triggering region in space where you simulate the encounter by manipulating your proprioception in a manner similar to what would happen if your proprioception encountered the physical version of the kasina. So really, the contents of the kasina don't matter for this exercise, but the "triggering region" that simulates an encounter by affecting proprioception, does matter. For this reason, you don't even need contents, or the inside of the kasina. You just need the boundary-layer in which you do or would come into contact to restrict your proprioception (albeit on a fine or subtle level) during the encounter. This boundary-layer can be invisible. For visuopropriosity (VP), vision was derived or "grown" from proprioception. This proprioception can be a boundary-layer used in kasina practice. It can be an invisible layer of (potential) proprioceptional changes in space. If focus is mainly on this boundary-layer of (potential) proprioceptional changes in space, then it can be said to be a 3D positive gestalt. The kasina, or at least its boundary-layer where it does/would contact and (usually finely) change proprioception as an (oneiric) encounter, is where the positive gestalt is, but around it is a sheath of negative gestalt. This negative gestalt is like the reasonings around the kasina or 3D oneiric object of (potential) proprioceptional boundary-layer, that say "this is not the oneiric object". It's like standing on a sports field, and saying "this is the sports field", which is like what a positive gestalt does. Then, when you walk to the boundary of the sports field, you can say, "this is the sports field". As you step right over the boundary of the sports field, you can begin to say, "this is not the sports field", which is like what a negative gestalt does. The negative gestalt is like a sheath or boundary around a positive gestalt that helps to clarify what the positive gestalt is and isn't, but it needs to be around the positive gestalt to refer to it directly. And it needs to be around where the positive gestalt isn't (such as at other (temporal-)spatial points) in order to refer to non-positive gestalt directly, and therefore negative gestalt is at the boundary between positive gestalt and encompassing gestalt.
For visuopropriosity, the 2D visual sensations (Qualities or Qs) grow from the 3D proprioception, which in this case is the kasina's boundary-layer of (potential) proprioception. The positive gestalt starts at the 3D, but this is the positive gestalt of proprioception. The negative gestalt of proprioception becomes the positive gestalt of vision in visuo-propriosity.
Inversely, in proprio-visuality (PV) the proprioception comes after the vision. 3D proprioception grows from 2D vision in propriovisuality. So, initially, a (flat) 2D visual field is where the positive gestalt is, but the negative gestalt of that flat 2D visual field could be a 3D negative gestalt that sits like water on top and bottom of a flat surface, on either side of it. The 3D negative gestalt of the 2D visual field is, or becomes, the 3D positive gestalt of proprioception which is 3D anyway.
Imagining touching a liquid. The "water kasina".
Feeling the imagined object as if it were a physical liquid, affecting proprioception by "pushing back" against your hand as a liquid would. You could move your hand away from its location, and then return your hand to the imagined object's imagined location to feel it again.
Touching an imagined fire. The fire kasina.
The cube with the hat-symbol has the imagined or oneiric contents inside of it.
The larger outer cube is the physical space, which has the oneiric cube's space partially occupying it.
Touching something solid and imaginary - an imagined solid.
Here in this example above, the imagined solid is a purple diamond.
It is an example of "earth kasina". You could imagine feeling the solid surfaces of the diamond pushing back against your hand when you grab it or press onto it. You can wrap your entire hand around the imaginary diamond, and therefore it is overlaid by a 3D positive gestalt. (When your focus is on it, and it is a 3D (oneiric/imagined) object.)
The imagined solid object does not have to have any color or even be visible to be felt. You could imagine feeling it, and how it affects your hand's proprioception. You could imagine the diamond in your pocket, or as invisible and in front of you (as shown above). You could otherwise imagine it behind you, or otherwise outside of your vision. You could combine this technique with a bouncedthru arm and hand, with a bouncedthru oneiric arm and oneiric hand feeling the imagined diamond. But it is still a 3D positive gestalt, when your focus is mostly there, and it is a 3D imagined object, even if invisible.
You only need the surfaces or boundary-layer, not the internal contents of the imagined or oneiric object, in order to interact with it.
Let's zoom in on this oneiric object:
As mentioned, this imagined diamond is invisible, but you can still imagine feeling it with the "earth kasina" or "solid kasina" technique.
You can imagine specific locations in space at which you force your proprioception to retract accordingly to "make way" for the imagined solidness (of the imagined solid object, like this diamond) - just like how your physical proprioception would not invade the space inside a solid physical diamond (if it remains unbroken). With the "solid / earth kasina" technique, you'd simulate this retracting proprioception wherever you imagine the solid object to be in space. You can imagine the diamond like an invisible positive magnetic field shaped like a diamond, and you can imagine your hand like a positive magnet repelled by it.
You can imagine specific locations in space at which you force your proprioception to retract accordingly to "make way" for the imagined solidness (of the imagined solid object, like this diamond) - just like how your physical proprioception would not invade the space inside a solid physical diamond (if it remains unbroken). With the "solid / earth kasina" technique, you'd simulate this retracting proprioception wherever you imagine the solid object to be in space. You can imagine the diamond like an invisible positive magnetic field shaped like a diamond, and you can imagine your hand like a positive magnet repelled by it.
This triggering region for retracting proprioception can be moved if the imagined / oneiric solid object is imagined to move in space.
Vision would only see the side of the imagined object (the diamond) which faces the viewer. In this example, vision wouldn't see the imagined backside of the diamond - although the imagined backside is a feel-able surface with proprioception. So only the eye-facing side of the 3D proprioceptional gestalt gets visual growth, from the visuo-propriosity (VP) process.
Although it is technically the negative gestaltic sheath of the (facing) proprioceptional surface -- that is where it "grows" the positive visual gestalt. The positive visual gestalt is 2D. This change from negative to positive is important because it allows a recursive or resonant structure. What that means, is that propriovisuality (PV) may now happen at the newly grown 2D visual positive gestalt, which is a process able to grow 3D proprioception between the new flat visual positive gestalt and the viewer.
Interestingly, the PV process may also after this, grow back into or towards the (original) proprioception - like a plant that grows into the 2D page of a 3D book you view versus growing towards you, the viewer. This can cause something like a feedback loop or standing resonance between PV and VP processes. It makes a sort of container or chamber in which growth can happen, back and forth, from both processes. This is the basic idea of the PV-VP complex. The PV process and the VP process can feed back into one another. However, also interestingly, the growth process doesn't have to be the same every time - meaning that a PV process from the newly grown 2D visual field - growing proprioception back into or towards the diamond and growing proprioception away from the viewer - doesn't have to grow necessarily into a diamond shape - so this allows dimensional folding - the newly grown 2D visual field can grow a different proprioceptional shape (or multiple shapes, or absence of shapes) behind it or away from the viewer, where the diamond's body, a potentially reactive proprioceptional region of space or where "feel-able mass is expected to be", on the second growth or second pass. This makes it possible for the imagined diamond to have proprioception of a diamond on the first round / original growth (or first 3D structure), and a different proprioceptional shape on the second round of growth, or any later rounds - making 3D spatial structures that overlap in the same space(time). You could imagine the diamond having two or more alternate 3D bodies behind the same 2D visual field - and this is a 4D split. The alternate 3D bodies of the object are overlapping in the same space (& nearly at the same time, usually). Basically, alternate branches of proprioception become available behind the same 2D visual field.
The inverse of that is also possible: the same 3D proprioception or "body" of the object could have 2 or more alternate 2D visual fields "covering it" as the object's "face". This is probably how you could visualize an imagined object while also having the physical space empty (or otherwise physically occupied) (but that the imagined visualization of the object also occupies) available as an alternate 2D visual field. Both oneiric and physical visual sensations become available as options to see the same space. So you have at least 2 options for 2D visual fields for the same location. And you can switch between them, between an oneiric 2D visual field and a physical 2D visual field for the same 3D spatial location. You can switch between visualization and physical sight.
Multiple oneiric 2D visual fields could also overlap, onto one another, although they may refer to the same 3D space. Basically, alternate branches of vision become available.
When alternate branches of either vision or proprioception become available for the same space, and/or for the same time, then you can choose whichever option you want. Therefore, the 5th Jhana of unlimited space progresses to and becomes the 6th Jhana of unlimited consciousness.
The 5th Jhana was mainly about increasing the possible space in which your consciousness could be - and increasing the possible times in which your consciousness could be, which was done by converting the memories (and potential creativity) into spaces, and then connecting the those memory-spaces with special gestalts that acted like bridges between 4D experiences/times - this also allows multiple variations of the same concept to act as special gestalts that were spread over space, which introduced variety of concepts like pointers or bridges into/from the various 4D experience from which they derived.
For example: variety of a concept of a bicycle, could come from various memories of bicycles, all these 4D memories connected by special gestalt that overlays onto the current bicycle perceived (oneirically or physically, not even necessarily fully or visibly because partially perceived and invisible bicycles are variations of the concept of a bicycle, also). This special gestalt allowed each spatial location surrounding the bicycle (in one kind of 5th Jhanic Mass) or non-physical trigger (in another kind of 5th JM) (and you could even use a bouncedthru movement in a non-physical space) from the centroid of the special gestalt to trigger a slightly different variation of a bicycle by triggering that bicycle-variation's corresponding 4D experience (which is a memory, or you could use a potential experience that is creatively newly produced rather than remembered).
However, in the sixth Jhana, in every point in the unlimited space that you learned in the 5th Jhana, there is a choice or option for growth or branching. Therefore, in the 6th Jhana, every point of the unlimited space is potentially occupied by a chooser and choices to make. A chooser with choices to make, is generally considered to be a consciousness. If every point of the unlimited space from the 5th Jhana has the potential for consciousness like this, then the 6th Jhana is unlimited consciousness - especially if the choose-able branches can loop, and can grow into each other (such as in a Conektor complex like the somewhat "contained feedback" of a PV-VP complex), which we may discuss later in more detail, namely 5D-6D phenomena of "splits" and "joins" and "rejoins" and "inosculations".
We can extrapolate these ideas to 4D. The 3D negative gestalt *of one (specific) sense* can become the 4D positive gestalt of another (specific sense). Inversely, the 4D negative gestalt *of one (specific) sense* can become the 3D positive gestalt *of another (specific) sense*. This naturally gets into the idea of Conektor complexes which will be discussed later, after the idea of the VP-PV complex is discussed in more detail, being one of the more naturally obvious or more easily explainable Conektor complexes. **Negative and positive 4D and 5D gestalts, and folding thereof.**
A cone or "conicity" is like the trajectory of the 5th JM. And so it contains the 5D variations of the 5th JM, as overlapping 5D cross-sections, somewhat like how an animation (of a trajectory) of a thrown ball contains overlapping 3D cross-sections in a 4D row (spatial-temporal-energetic).
The kono part of a conicity is the part of the cone from the 5th JM to the small (gestaltic) tip. The sono of a conicity is the part of the conicity that goes from the 5th JM to the wide end of the cone. The tapering and widening of the conicity / cone may also correspond to the definition, how definite versus how indefinite a Qconfig or Pconfig is. When it is highly definite, usually in kono, there can be a 4D object in perception (the Qs and/or pressures thereof). Otherwise, the branching between various optional 4D structures/paths, may cause indefinition, which, in a Conektor, can turn Qs into pressure, and can turn pressure into unperceived phenomena, either extremely subtle pressures, or phenomena that are unperceived and so may as well not even exist at that (4D) time(-space-energy) in terms of perception.
A cone that goes transversely between two other cones, is what I call an "anocone". Both conicities have their own kono parts and their own sono parts. The region between both cones can have a 5th JM rolling between the conicities, or it can be empty, but either way, I call the conically linking region between 2 conicities "ano". You can use the prefix "ano-" to refer to inter-conic phenomena, such as anopressure, pressure that occurs inter-conically or due to anoconic influences. Anocones do not have to be between 2 cones that are completely separate.
Anocones may be between any 2 cones/conicities. If cones are nested, then an anocone may still link them.
*Anonodes relate to 6D foreshortening into and from their nodal form.* Anonodes may be shifted along anolines that connect conicities. There are various kinds of anolines. The kind of anoline shown above is what I call a "quipu" (or "kipu" looking like a quipu from South America). Anonodes may be shifted or moved along anolines, but anolines may also themselves be moved and manipulated between conicities. This allows a great degree of customization for conic blasts and configurations of multi-conic structures, especially by using and manipulating compact configurations like quipus, which can supply anopressure between cones but by variable paths.
When the 5th JM is "rolled" forward in your current experience, it goes through variations relative to your current 4D experience, i.e., variations in different moments in time and variations in space (and energy), of your current average baseline curl.
"Rolling" the 5th JM relative to the other cone/curl (the darker grey cone in the image above) would have a different effect. This is important for the other types of intersecting cones you'll see later.
If you were wondering how the 5th JM could keep rolling through the cone and still maintain the same 5D size, without getting bigger as it goes towards the broad end of the cone, or smaller as it rolls towards the sharp tip of the cone; it may do so by rolling through 2 cones simultaneously, each cone facing opposite directions.
Technically, the 5th JM that rolls, is only a 5D part of the PV-VP complex. The cone or "conicity" is like the trajectory of the 5th JM. And so it contains the 5D variations of the 5th JM, as overlapping 5D cross-sections, somewhat like how a trajectory of a thrown ball contains overlapping 3D cross-sections in a (spatial-temporal-energetic) 4D row, even if some of the 3D cross-sections are variations of each other, like the ball being squished or elongated as some 3D cross-sections could be, if the ball encounters a surface and changes its shape as it moves. So, a single cone or "conicity" is a 6D part of the complex.
Since the PV-VP complex consists of (at least) 2 cones or 2 "conicities", the overlapping 6D conicities, like overlapping 6D cross-sections, means the multi-cone complex itself is a type of 7D structure. 7D deals more with Desires, rather than with Reasonings, and involve some retention of Discontentment and Contentment over time without it completely depleting, as the 5th JM maintains its size without over-shrinking or over-growing by being in the overlap of 2 conicities. A 5th JM would probably overshrink or overgrow if it "rolled" in a single cone. Overgrowth or overshrinking may happen if
a 5th JM rolled in a single conicity, in a trajectory of a Reasoning from the IF part to the THEN part, or from the kono side to the sono side of a single conicity. 7D will be discussed more in the chapter about the 7th Jhana.
a 5th JM rolled in a single conicity, in a trajectory of a Reasoning from the IF part to the THEN part, or from the kono side to the sono side of a single conicity. 7D will be discussed more in the chapter about the 7th Jhana.
The propriovisual cone has the visual stimuli lead the proprioceptional stimuli. For example, seeing something in the environment and then guessing/perceiving the depth by using proprioception. So it starts with vision, or prioritizes vision.
The visuoproprioceptional cone has the proprioceptional stimuli lead the visual stimuli. For example, using a phantom limb or oneiric feeling of something in the environment, and then giving that proprioception a visual image. So it starts with proprioception, or prioritizes proprioception.
**Multi-baseline interactions
Wrapper (probably more for 7th Jhana chapter)
Sub-wrapper (")
Possibly related to Horse Direction (probably more for 7th Jhana chapter)
Pulsations from edges of Wrapper and/or sub-wrapper(s) as relative pulsation-antipulsation pairs which are related to complexes(probably more for 7th Jhana chapter)
Pulsation-antipulsations don't have to be in pairs, but a single pulsation can act as multiple antipulsations and vice versa; GIDW relates; (")
6th JM (")
proto-6th JM, and Ostrich? Is Ostrich more of 5th Jhana chapter??
This 6th Jhana should probably be more about Ostrich or (an) animalian(s) before it sequentially due to its open-ended, and asymmetric or lifting operations
Should probably add Discontentment, Mood, Contentment, baseline navigation to previous Jhana (5th)**