Transcendental Realism

Section 5

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"The Unobservable Totality of Light"

by Adi Da Samraj

My image-art can be characterized as paradoxical space that undermines "point of view". That undermining (which occurs in the any instant of fully felt participation in any of the images I make and show) allows for a tacit glimpse, or intuitive sense, of the Transcendental Condition of Reality (even as all conditional appearances, and, Ultimately, As It Is) — always, inherently, and totally beyond and prior to "point of view".

The human individual in the midst of perceived reality is like a camera in a room — perceiving everything from a fixed "point of view".

Any one and every one in a room separately perceives the whatever they think and feel they see — but what does the room (itself) really look like? What is the appearance of the room itself — as a totality, as a whole, and As it Is?

The room (itself) is an always unobserved (and Perfectly Unobservable) totality — a seamless, simultaneous, and non-separate whole, indivisibly conjoined (in Prior Unity) with the all-and-All of time, and space, and light, and all the All of Prior's Depth, and all the All of All Reality Itself.

The room (itself), like even the universe as a whole, exists only As it Is, inherently prior to every "point of view" (or ego-"I"), and always (irreducibly) as it would appear when viewed from every possible "point of view" in space-time — not merely as it would appear from any one and particular "point of view" (or separate ego-"I"), or from even any finite collection of the seeming selves of "points of view".

No particular "point of view" can reveal the "room" itself, or the universe itself, or Reality Itself — because every "point of view" is inherently limited and intrinsically "self"-referring.

Reality Itself always already exists. Reality Itself Is the One, and Only, and All, and What That Exists — always prior to "point of view", and always before any individual "point of view" constructs its version of separately "self"-presumed "reality".

"Point of view" is the essence of ego-life: The apparently individual being presumes that he or she is a particularized "point", or a psycho-physically self-organized "point of view", in space-time. And that "point" is "made" by contracting from the always prior and indivisible (and inherently egoless) condition of totality — and, indeed, by contracting from even every mode, form, or state of conditional existence that is not "local" (or even identical) to the "point of view" (or ego-"I") of "self"-reference.

Nevertheless, the "room" itself (As Is) exists always already non-"locally" (or comprehensively, inclusive of innumerable potential "locations" of "point of view") — and, as that totality, the "room" itself exists inherently prior to all possible "points of view", and such that the "room" itself is (inherently, and paradoxically) un-"locatable" and unobservable.

My images are always artistic demonstrations of the Non-conditional and Inherently Un-observable (and, thus, Transcendental) Reality-Condition of whatever is (apparently) perceived — and (simultaneously) they are also root-"imagings" of the conditional (or naturally perceived) states and appearances of the psycho-physically constructed phenomena of "ordinary" human experience.

My process of image-art is always "purposed" to transcend "point of view" — and, if the resultant images are received seriously and viewed seriously, they are, for the any and every such viewer, a means for tacitly feeling the Transcendental, irreducibly paradoxical, and intrinsically incomprehensible Real, and Indivisible, and all-Simultaneous, and Non-separate, and Perfectly egoless Condition of that which is (presently) conditionally perceived (and, thus and thereby, presumed to be "reality").

The Reality-Condition of all that appears to arise conditionally Is Perfectly Non-conditional and Inherently egoless (or Irreducibly Prior to "point of view").

Indeed, even the human body-mind (or "self"-presumed separate ego-"I") is inherently egoless (or Inherently Prior to the presumption of "location", separateness, or any reduction to a "point" in space and time) — for even the body extends into such enough of space that no finite "point" in space can be said to be its "location".

My image-art is always "in" the "space" of the irreducible Reality-Condition of all that is conditionally and naturally perceived and "known". Thus, by making image-art, I am making "space" for What Is Beyond and Prior to "point of view" and ego-"I".

Part Two of this Essay:
"My Process of Creating Images"

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