Curbs

Usage examples of boundaries.

The boundaries of the previous self-structure are preserved in their function and their capacity, but negated in their exclusivity or partialness.

And until it takes the larger and deeper context into account, the limitations of its own shallower position will torment it, inflict it with the agony of incompleteness, tear at its boundaries with hints of something deeper, higher, more meaningful.

I will arbitrarily set the boundaries of my investigation at the border of the family, or the border of the town, or the village, or the nation .

As social reality was not yet clearly distinguished from natural reality, the boundaries of the social world merged into those of the world in general.

Without clearly defined boundaries of the social system there was no natural or social environment in the strict sense.

But the reality of other empires was incompatible with this definition of the boundaries and social environment of an empire.

A failure to grasp these different boundaries (and their very different functions) leads to what I have called the single-boundary fallacy, a fallacy that has hobbled many psychological theories and absolutely crippled most mystical/psychological theories (as we will see in subsequent chapters.

F-l is particularly concerned with the establishment of physical boundaries (the physical self differentiated from physical objects).

The typical charge against Kosmic consciousnessthat it violates the physical boundaries of the individual organismapplies to every other sense of selfness as well.

The very sense of I-ness is never just the simple sensations this body is feeling, but always (past fulcrum-2) is inextricably bound up with identifications that violate the boundaries of the body.

The fact that Kosmic consciousness also violates these boundaries is not even a vaguely justifiable criticism.

As he grows more and more inward, his boundaries mental [noospheric], vital [biospheric], and spiritual begin to broaden, the bonds that held life, mind, soul to their first limitations loosen or snap, and man the mental being begins to have a glimpse of a larger kingdom of self and world closed to the first earth-life.

Each deeper and wider context condemns the lesser to suffering (or rather, the narrower suffers from the boundaries of its own lacerating limitations).

All of the other boundaries (emotional to mental to spiritual) do not follow the skin-boundary at all (they merely refer to it and are grounded in it).

The person (as image and emotional representation) becomes a part of your emotional patterns (your overall affective mood states and structures), and thus is in that emotional space as surely as food is in your stomach, but these two boundaries are not at all the same simple physical boundary (and that is what I mean when I say that an entity is in a structure or a holon when it is following the patterns or rules of the deep structure of that holon: I can emotionally identify with people, causes, groups, nations, no matter where they are actually located: they become part of me when I take them into my emotional identity, my emotional space, and they then operate within that space, following its particular rules, or the patterns of my affective mood states, which themselves might accommodate, or shift deep structure, in order to assimilate the new items).