The Ever-Present Origin - Michael Goodnight - Editor

phenomena there are too many that, though forgotten, are merelyreactivated manifestational forms. Inasmuch as they have been forgottenthey give the appearance of being new and are erroneously valued assuch. Certain modern artistic trends are a good example: surrealism anddadaism, for instance, are only regressions and notinceptions of a newmutation. They are to a certain extent the rubble covering thefoundations; and on occasion they are even deliberate and consciousefforts to destroy these foundations.We must, therefore, establish some additional means for distinguishingwith certainty the seeming from the actual "new." For this we appendthree additional considerations to supplement our discussion so far. TheFirst addresses the question of space and time, the second the question ofsoul/psyche and spirit, and the third the forms of realization and thought.Without having clearly demonstrated the conditionality of space and time,without having established what is psychic and what is presumablyspiritual, and without having gained insight into the forms or types ofrealization and thought processes within each individual structure, we willbe unable to make evident the "new."Without such clarification we would be constantly in danger of revertingimperceptibly to the merely unitary space-timelessness of the pre-rational,or to the immoderation of purely psychic irrationality, or would remainconfined in mere quantitative, rational thought. If we wish to gain insightinto the arational and the aperspectival, this must be strenuously avoided.Only such insight into the mutation to the integral structure that is inprocess can transform our consciousness and our humanity into aneffective whole. It is this structure, after all, that also encompasses what isto come: the future, which even today is our co-constituent. For not onlywe form it; it shapes us as well, and in this sense the future, too, ispresent.Chapter EightThe Foundations of the Aperspectival World1. The Ever-Present Origin (Complementing Cross Sections)One difficulty which to some will seem insurmountable is the difficulty of"representing" the aperspectival world. This world goes beyond ourconceptualization. By the same token, the mental world once went beyondthe experiential capability of mythical man, and yet this world of the mindbecame reality. Anyone who objects that the aperspectival world is, inspatial terms, unimaginable, incomprehensible, impalpable, inconclusive,and unthinkable - and there will be no end to such objections - falls victimto his own limitations of comprehension and to the visual representationimposed by his world. Some will undoubtedly also be irritated by the talk55