The observer within the work
Where do we read from, and what is the place of the knower?
Gonzalo Olivares Velázquez · Spiritus Mundi
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Continue readingConsciousness as the starting point
OUR READING · SIGNED POSITION OF THE HOUSE
We start from consciousness as primary. It is not a late product of matter; it is the condition of every experience, including the experience of measuring matter. "Consciousness is the only immediate certainty" (our translation of «La consciencia es la única certeza inmediata» «El Umbral de la Consciencia (2026, en curso) · p. 99»). "Every statement about matter, energy or physical processes happens within consciousness" (our translation of «Toda afirmación sobre la materia, la energía o los procesos físicos ocurre dentro de la consciencia» «El Umbral de la Consciencia (2026, en curso) · p. 100»). The material is real, but it is not the origin: "Matter is not the origin but the most opaque end of a process of manifestation" (our translation of «La materia no es el origen, sino el extremo más opaco de un proceso de manifestación» «El Umbral de la Consciencia (2026, en curso) · p. 101»). That view does not deny the physical; it explains why the physical appears stable, regular and held up by a principle that is not material.
The place of the observer
OUR READING · SIGNED POSITION OF THE HOUSE
And it follows that the observer is inside. "The world is not something that first exists and is then perceived; it is something that is articulated within experience itself" (our translation of «El mundo no es algo que primero existe y luego se percibe; es algo que se articula dentro de la experiencia misma» «El Umbral de la Consciencia (2026, en curso) · p. 123»). "To observe is not to reflect a neutral fact passively, but to draw a boundary" (our translation of «Observar no es reflejar pasivamente un hecho neutro, sino trazar una frontera» «El Umbral de la Consciencia (2026, en curso) · p. 124»). So there is no reading of an esoteric tradition that is not a reading from somewhere, and that is why we say where ours is.
Return to the centre, with the differences in view
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