
Building a Science of Consciousness
Guided Meditation: Absorption Into Platonic Objects
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Quick takeaways
- Attuning to the difference between rendering a Platonic object from a specific point of view and the sense of knowing and existence of that object that arises as we do so.
- Exploring how the geometry of attention affects valence and sense of ease for the cultivation of Qualia Mastery.
Deep dives
Exploring Platonic Objects
This meditation guides you to experience and consider various platonic objects. It emphasizes two perspectives: your specific viewpoint on a platonic object and the hypothesized object itself. Starting with a point, it encourages you to explore different ways of perceiving a point and ponder its existence outside space and time. You then move on to experiencing lines, planes, 3D volumes, and moments of spacetime. The meditation further progresses to concrete platonic objects like equilateral triangles, squares, pentagons, and hexagons. Each shape invites you to explore how you perceive and know it, including its sensations, resonances, and manifestations in your experience. The meditation concludes by contemplating 3D objects such as tetrahedrons, cubes, octahedrons, icosahedrons, and dodecahedrons, as well as abstract notions of space and emptiness without points or space itself.