Guided Meditation: The Phenomenology of Ontology

Building a Science of Consciousness

In this guided meditation, Andrés will take you on a journey to explore the different ways of believing in various ontologies.Without making any definitive claims about the nature of reality, you will delve into the phenomenology of ontology. This involves exploring what it feels like to inhabit a phenomenal world where the fundamental building blocks of reality are perceived in distinct ways.One essential insight you will gain is the realization of how different facets of your experience can solidify and rigidify an ontology. For example, in the "dualism" ontology where both matter and mind coexist, you may notice how this can trigger the feeling of being encased or trapped within your body. However, through attentive observation, you can recognize that this sense of confinement arises from somatic feelings that render the experience in a particular way, rather than it being an inherent truth.Throughout the meditation, you will explore various ontologies, including:(1) Dualism: The coexistence of mind and matter. (2) Trinitarianism: The interplay of matter, consciousness, and space. (3) Atomism: The understanding that matter is composed of atoms, and the exploration of potential holism or binding. (4) Jain ontology: The existence of approximately nine fundamental kinds of ontological building blocks of reality, including space, time, dynamism, atoms, soul, and "karma particles." (5) Monism: The belief that everything is qualia, awareness, information, algorithms, computation, belief, or a social construction (Strong Tlon Hypothesis). (6) Ontologies of infinities. (7) Ontologies of Zero: Delving into David Pearce's Zero Ontology, where the existence of "zero information" implies the coexistence of all mutually-consistent universes of bound qualia.The exploration of the last ontology, Zero Ontology, is particularly powerful, as it can lead to the "rainbow God" phenomenology, where all flavors of qualia converge and "cancel each other out." This experience is closely related to the phenomenology of 5-MeO-DMT and the formless Jhanas.May all who engage in this meditation benefit from its profound insights!