"Abram: The body is... a singularly important structure within the phenomenal field. The body is that mysterious and multifaceted phenomenon that seems always to accompany one's awareness within the field of appearances. Yet the phenomenal field also contains many other bodies, other forms that move and gesture in a fashion similar to one's own. While one's own body is experienced, as it were, only from within, these other bodies are experienced from outside; one can vary one's distance from these bodies and can move around them, while this is impossible in relation to one's own body."
...And there we have it- the intersubjective field. This is a very potent re-framing of the so-called "objective world"- again, in the words of Abram: "For the conventional contrast between the "subjective" and "objective" realities can now be reframed as a contrast within the subjective field of experience itself- as the felt contrast between subjective and intersubjective phenomena." In other words, what we experience as "outside of us" are things that more than one person or sensing subject can sense or interact with. The things we experience as "inside us" are the things that appear to only be sensed by us. But there is only subjectivity and intersubjectivity- only those things. The pure "objectivity" assumed to exist by modern science is nothing more than an idealization of intersubjective experience. It is an illusion, in other words. There is no way to rise "above" intersubjectivity. There is no way to be "outside of it"- because that would be a realm that could not exist.
"You might be bothered by something I said earlier, about not being able to exist without a body. Because you know, like I do, that your body has an expiration date. Fear not. The Intersubjective field has more than just what you sense horizontally- it also has vertical depths. And those depths are what mythology calls "The Underworld." Death is the end of a personal horizontal experience of the intersubjective field, and an "expanding out" into the depths, into the massive and subtle field of more-than-human and other-than-human sensing perceptions and sensations. It's you being a shape-shifter and a "deep diver", which you are, and which you always will be."
"When you’re dealing with the body itself, the red serpent, you’re also dealing with the land and its great red serpent, because the body is as much a part of the land as a boulder or a tree. As I have pointed out before, there are tunnels in the land, and tunnels in the body. But you’re also dealing with whatever is in the land- like the Underworld. The land has hidden depths, just like your body and mind does. The flight down, the sinking down, the descent to the underworld is deeply connected with the conscious experience of the body. The Underworld is not just a big void under the “ground” that you see with your eyes and feel with your feet; it is also the depths and darkness of the immediate sensation of the physical body. This term is very important- sensation. You have a bodily sensation, only you probably don’t feel it very often. And this bodily sensation- the feeling of all of you, the feeling of being you, the feeling of having a body- is sorcerously powerful. We’ve all learned to ignore it, all our lives, and yet learning to be aware of it again is easy. The reason why it is powerful is because it is the anchor of the soul, the feeling of being a “being” When you are alive, your wind-soul or breath soul, your free soul, and your body are mixed together fully; every in breath lets you feel the “mixture” happening. Your flesh is permeated by wind and life-vitality, the same way the sorcerous Master himself permeates the solid, dark land. This is how the most Mercurial being in existence is also Saturnian.
Letters of the Devil's Forst.
