Ren, your blog entry listing starts at Chapter 9. How do I find Chapters 1-8?
Watched a number of your videos. The message, to me, was to consider "all the possibilities" that can be reality. That seems Ne -- or what I thought constituted Ne. Perhaps you could call it boundary-less-ness or infinite possiblities. Am I understanding your concept at all? It defies easy definition because the limits don't exactly refer to space or time.
Okay, for example, I once tried to describe what you called immanence. I was at a fundamentalist Christian church, and I got on the wrong side of the women sitting at my table by saying, "This is me," as I picked up a cup of coffee. "This is God," as I held it over a glass of water. Then I poured the coffee in the water.
Didn't go over well.
Hi Zola, thanks for checking out my blog!
What do you mean by it starting at Chapter 9? I'm confused. If you are referring to the Youtube blog, you should have access to the Open Monism playlist by scrolling down the main page. It should all be in there. I've taken a break from making OM videos, because I'm yet to master explaining the other sections of the framework in readily understandable language. I'm practicing, though.
Regarding Ne and the consideration of "all the possibilities" that can be reality: I see where you're coming from. Until the summer of last year, I was still toying with the idea of being Ne-dom. But as a result of not really identifying with either the ENTP or ENFP type, I delved into the definitions of Ne and Ni, and it became clear after a while that I was actually Ni-dom. I think that I can explain why, briefly and with reference to OM.
Both Ne and Ni perceive "multiple possibilities", but broadly speaking, Ne's way of perceiving is divergent, while Ni's way is convergent. So where Ne will take a piece of data and extend a spider web outwardly from it, Ni will tend to take several pieces of data and make them converge towards a centre that somehow reconciles the originally seemingly disparate pieces. You can see this depicted vividly here:
In open monism, I don't really argue that there are many different things that can claim to be reality. Rather, I argue that being, the oneness, is ultimately the only thing that is, but that it manifests itself in different ways. So what I try to do is look at these different manifestations (the red points), whether they be physical, mental, spiritual, concrete, abstract, or whatever, and show how they ultimately converge towards being (the blue point). The movement, if you like, is from my observation of various world phenomena, towards their belonging in the universal oneness.
Suppose that I call OM "an investigation into the meaning of being", and that being is the oneness. Then, it's clear that being is the ending point, but if being is the oneness, then the ending point is one, and it is the starting points that are many. Hence, I use Ni over Ne.