Vantage Points and Form/Emptiness Trans-Duality

"... as each new vantage point is recognized along the spectrum of realization, the shallower vantage point are seen through as transparent but they do not cease to exist. That is to say, even as one shifts identity beyond thought, one moves beyond the confusion and obscuration that an exclusive identification with thought causes, but the functionality and apparent existence of thought still remains. In a similar way, from an awakened vantage point of non-dual awareness, each of the lower vantage points (witness, time/space, personality, and thought) remain open and functioning. This means that appearances of subject and object and the whole manifestation of duality in form do not vanish. In fact, the experience of realization is quite the opposite. All lower vantage points are enlivened with the magnificence of realization and seen clearly as an expression of the very nature of reality. A realization that fails to fully manifest the functionality and particular skills of a lower vantage point suffers from a state-stage pathology".

- Dustin DiPerna, in his forthcoming book, Heart of Conscious Evolution: An Advanced Guide to Integral Spiritual Development