Less Complicated - Health, Spirituality & Philosophy
  • Home
  • Philosophy
  • Books
    • Books by Steven A. Ross
    • Books by Other Authors

Seeing What You’re Really Seeing

3/30/2015

0 Comments

 
Picture
Goethe, the great Renaissance man, placed great emphasis on the art of seeing. Goethe believed that the manner in which one sees has a tremendous impact upon what one is really seeing.

Due to Goethe’s unique manner of observation while seeing, he was able to recognize a total organization or unity of the world while noting the diversity of its parts.

Observing in Goethe’s manner, when one observes a phenomenon a person needs to be more active in their seeing than what is usually done. We tend to think about seeing as just opening our eyes in front of an event and we are observing something that is flowing toward us, into our consciousness, through our senses. In Goethe’s manner of seeing, we look from ourselves toward the phenomenon. This is accomplished through putting our attention into seeing, so that we really do see what we are seeing, rather than just having impressions imprinting themselves upon our consciousness.
Goethe called his manner of seeing, ‘exact sensorial imagination.’ After seeing a phenomenon, Goethe would repeat the event within his imagination. His goal was to think the event concretely in his imagination without leaving anything out or adding anything other than what took place. The actions of ‘active seeing’ along with the activity of creating within the imagination, was Goethe’s discipline of ‘exact sensorial imagination.’ Goethe’s intent was to give ‘thinking more the quality of perception and sensory observation more the quality of thinking.

Goethe’s goal through the use of this discipline was to bring the observer into a deeper contact with each experience, in a manner that was not possible, by just having a momentary intellectual thought regarding an event that came in through the eye.

“Imagine cutting an orange. We see the knife and orange simply as separate entities which are brought together externally in space and sequentially in time.” Through Goethe’s discipline, what is added to our normal experience, is bringing our attention to the act of cutting the orange, instead of the separate entities which are brought together. If this is done, the process of cutting can be experienced simultaneously as one whole, as if it were one present moment instead of a linear sequence of instants.”

We generally operate mentally through observing linear sequences of various states or actions. We get involved in describing changes rather than being in the moment with the ultimate reality of the situation or phenomenon taking place. Through this change in seeing, one is not altering their consciousness but realizing the relationship and togetherness of various elements that are before their eyes.

This manner of seeing involves placing attention into seeing rather than just allowing the intellectual mind to instantaneously catalogue some event or action and store it in the mind. Placing greater attention into seeing, will transform routine phenomenon into deeper meaningful experiences that carry an individual from an ordinary intellectual manner of living, to a more rich and varied world of sensory perception.

As an example, in the case of a person viewing two leaves, “the intellectual mind is concerned with what is common to them, in other words immediately decides they are both leaves, and overlooks the individual differences between them. In the exact sensorial imagination, the leaves are not uniform and have endless variety as well as being rich in diversity.”

When our consciousness is redirected into an organ of perception, looking into the world rather than just receiving input through our eyes, ‘the mind functions intuitively instead of intellectually.’ Through this discipline of placing the event into the imaginative state, intuition is activated and stimulated within an individual. It is a subject that has deep ramifications and can open our awareness to greater perceptions. I have shared only basic aspects of Goethe’s discipline in order to bring this concept into your awareness.

To inspire and empower. 

To help support the awarding of prizes for integrative health discoveries go to: http://www.crowdrise.com/worldresearchfoundat

The information contained herein is based upon data from various published sources and merely represents health literature as summarized by researchers and contributors. LessComplicated.net makes no warranties, expressed or implied, regarding the completeness of this publicly available information, nor does it warrant the fitness of the information for any particular purpose. Information is not intended as medical advice, and publisher disclaims any liability for use of medical information or results thereof.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Categories

    All
    Ancient Medicine
    Clinics & Healing Environments
    Color Therapy
    Devices & Techniques
    Nemescope
    Philosophy
    Pioneers Of Health
    What I Believe

    Steven A. Ross

    Archives

    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    November 2019
    September 2019
    July 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014

    RSS Feed

Copyright 2019-2023 Less Complicated, Inc. All rights reserved.