What is Prior to Perception?

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Minh Nguyen VanParis, France
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Master Ralston.
I'm upset by your "17. Effect or Reflection" article in "Internal Dialogue Anthology": you said "At some point we must leap beyond perception [...]. This leap is called direct experience [...]". You mean there is something which can occur before perception? I have difficulty to understand and visualize your telling because, by definition, for me perception is chronologically the 1st and only one contact we have with reality (mind as memory and interpretation coming later).
Minh


Minh,
I usually consider it a good thing when someone becomes upset by an ontological communication; it frequently means they care enough to become upset and that the communication has hit something and so disturbed it. Whatever has been disturbed often needs disturbing.

In any case, yes there is something prior to perception. To say something "occurs" before perception is inaccurate since "occurs" implies a process and what "is" before perception is not a process. Consider: if nothing existed with perceptive potential, or the possibility to cognize perception, how would perception take place? You haven't looked past conventional presumptions in this matter. Such experience of the nature of consciousness isn't received from reading books or making presumptions. It is gleaned solely through direct investigation.

Ask: What is prior to perception?
Peter

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