Immanence: A Deleuzian Phenomenology

Immanence: A Deleuzian Phenomenology

Rudolph Bauer. Ph.D. Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, A.B.P.P.

Washington Center For Consciousness Studies and International Center for Existential Phenomenological Consultation

The Drama of Ontological Immanence

In Deleuzian Phenomenological understanding there is Pre- Representational Field of direct knowing or non-conceptual field of direct knowing within which lived experience is a Creative Manifestation. Our experiential field of lived experience is beyond transcendental distance and is beyond our logical rationalistic reflective mind in its Representational World View. Actually, transcendence or our transcendental experience reflects our going beyond our rational representational thinking and understanding. Our experiential realm of immanence and our experiential understanding within immanence   goes beyond our conceptual thinking about phenomena or the Being and Being fullness of Phenomena

Deleuze’s direct and experiential understanding goes beyond form and physical forms of matter. Going beyond form and matter does not mean going beyond form and formlessness. Our experiential knowing within the Being full field of   Immanence does not go beyond form or formless Being.   Immanence deeply understands the ongoing continuity of Being in its unfolding manifestation as Alethea or Logos or Legein to use Heideggerian experiential language metaphors.

Being cannot be represented in representational logical conceptual thought. Being cannot be Objectified or made ‘Things like’ or made into an entity. Being can be known directly by direct awareness or gnosis or jnana. Awareness is direct non conceptual knowing. Awareness is the experiential knowing of Being knowing Being. Being necessary expresses itself or manifest itself in all beings since Being is the Being of all beings. Because Being is all there is, and all there ever was, and always what will be, Being is infinite.  Immanence should be thought independently of transcendence. Immanence is immanent unto itself and within itself.

We are the Plane of immanence. Yes, there are infinite forms within the manifestation of Immanence as the Plane of Immanence. The world of representation is itself within the plane of immanence and the world is itself the manifestation of immanence.

Infinity As Immanence

Immanence is infinity in openness, and infinity in horizons and infinite in its manifestations of lived experience. The ethics of immanence is not a prescribed morality and is not an entification of rules. Actually, immanence cannot be made into an entity. Entification is not a manifestation of immanence as immanence. The true power of immanence is Una Voce One Being without hierarchy. There is no above or below, no better or best and not true or false. These categories are of functions of categorical thinking of judgment of Mentalistic Judgment. This is exoteric truth of judgement and is not the esoteric truth of Being full Self Manifestation.

Life is Being itself and Being itself is life. Being breaths life into and through BEING INTO ALL Beings as their very Being. Breath is the liquidity of Being. Being is not an entity, a thing. Being is the liquidity of luminous spaciousness manifesting the liquidity of movement and manifestation. Being thinks through us, Being manifests through us, and Being manifests speaking through us. Being moves through us. Our Source is Being and Being fullness. Actually, when we enter our Timeless Awareness we enter Source, we enter Source as Us. Our Primordial Awareness is Source. Moreover, and most mysteriously Our Primordial Being Full Awareness is in Infinity. Our Primordial Being Full Awareness is the Spaciousness of Infinity. Our Primordial Being Full Awareness is the Ground of Being.  Our Primordial Being Full Awareness is Source. This understanding is the essence of Longchenpa’s understanding and experience of the Infinity of Primordial Awareness as the Source of Self Liberation.

It is not we who think Being, Being thinks us and Being thinks Being through us. Our entire life is the unfolding of Being and the manifestation of the potentiality of Being. Death itself is the potentiality of Being and re-birth is the potentiality of Being becoming a being. The Being of a being become a being again and again. Our singular WHO-NESS OF THE WHO-NESS OF PRIMORDIAL BEING becomes Who-ness of a being again and again.

The plane of Immanence is none other than this world as some think.  The plane of immanence is the infinity of worldliness. Thinking must be integrated into the field of Immanence which is the field of Being as the field of Primordial Awareness. Immanence is not impersonal since all personalism is the manifestation of Being. Being is Profoundly Personal. The heart essence is Being itself. The Purity of Being is the innermost heart essence of Being. Being full Unfolding and Being full self-manifestation is the essence of the innermost heart essence. The innermost heart essence is the manifestation of Compassion. Compassion is not an emotion of mind, compassion is the self-movement of Being, the self-manifestation of Being into other beings.

Immanence was the first phenomenological expression in the western philosophy of Heraclitus, Parmenides and the Pre Socratics. True speech must arise from within the field of immanence within is the field of Being, the field of luminous Timeless Awareness. If the language is articulated from mind alone, then you will find yourself in some transcendental state, beyond the immediacy of our lived experience of Being full awareness. Transcendental is a subtle form of dissociation and even subtle detachment. Being above everything and beyond everyone is dissociation.  Dissociation is Distancing. Being Beyond everyone and everything is dissociation from lived experience of Being and the Manifestation of Being as beings.

Immanence does not transcend the world. The world is embodied within Immanence. Embodiment is the drama of Immanence. Disembodiment is the dissociative drama of transcendence. Go Beyond Go Beyond and GO Beyond is the experiential distortion of most spiritualities and most religions. They think and they love to think that God is beyond Being itself and of course God is Being itself. Yes. Again, Religions love to think that God is beyond Being itself and of course God is Being itself. They love to think God is Transcendent. Actually,God is not an Entity. God is not a being. God is Being and Being is God in manifestation. God is not a Guy or even a Dad, or of any Gender. God is not a Human.  For many God is their personification or deification of their relentless Superego of Absolute Judgmental -ness of Binary Thinking.

To understand immanence, we must understand the two ways of knowing, knowing through mind and knowing through awareness. The knowing of awareness is always the knowing of immanence and within immanence. The knowing of mind is a transcendental. Mentalistic thought is transcendental and can be dissociative. Mentalistic ideational thinking transcends lived experience. When we integrate our mind within the immanence of experience then awareness within this alchemical union will facilitate the speech of immanence. The speech of Immanence is the speech of Being and Being fullness.

Vertical and Horizonal knowing.

Horizonal knowing is the knowing of immanence. The knowing of mind is a Transcendental Knowing. Phenomenology began as a transcendental knowing but integrated into the Dimension of Immanence. Husserl began within the knowing realm of transcendentalism, and Heidegger and Merleau Ponty went through various experiential transitions into remaining in  Realm of Immanence. Tantric understanding and Dzogchen understanding reflects the same path of Immanence. Kashmir Shavism reflects the same path of Immanence.

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