Cognitive embodiment in the crown chakra?

Global Insight from Crown Chakra Dynamics in 3D? (Part #7)

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Cognitive embodiment: The approach taken here is one of a series of modelling experiments. This implies an assumption that the "1,000-petalled lotus" can be usefully recognized as symbolizing an ultimate form of cognitive organization. It derives from an Eastern tradition which has long reflected on the subtleties of some such implication.

Obviously missing from any approach to "modelling" is the process of cognitive implication. This is a matter of contrioversial debate in Western traditions and most precisely in physics, especially given its enthusiastic construction of models of reality. Where is the observer in relation to the model that can be "viewed" only too conveniently by ignoring assumptions by which that process can be challenged?

With respect to the argument of the previous section:

• there is obvious cognitive embodiment in any "learning process", typically associated with confusion, frustration and a sense of ignorance
  
  
• each "perspective" implies a particular form of cognitive embodiment in the viewpoint with which that perspective is associated. Considerable importance may be attached to the understanding that another perspective is to be considered "wrong"
  
  
• arguably a particular world view can be understood as a consequence of cognitive embodiment in a complex perspective giving rise to a projection -- with all that may be associated with understanding of the latter within a psychological framework, in contrast with its geometrical interpretation

The crown chakra is traditionally associated with the many possibilities of "ascent", most obviously as described in mystical terms. Arguably there is a case for complementary insights into whatever may come to be understood as cognitive development. A variety of possibilities can be recognized (Clues to 'Ascent' and 'Escape', 2002). The latter featured in Navigating Alternative Conceptual Realities: clues to the dynamics of enacting new paradigms through movement (2002).

Facilitating the process of ascent may also be framed through understandings of "uplift" -- favoured by some Christian ministries as central to biblical narrative. Uplift notably frames explorations by science fiction writers, most explicitly with respect to the Uplift Universe of David Brin with its focus on biological uplift. This is paralleled by the Stellaris grand strategy video game of which one focus is the uplift of "presentients".

Given the importance which continues to be attached to the possibility of a civilizational "Renaissance", consideration necessarily extends to the metaphor of "rebirth" (Varieties of Rebirth: distinguishing ways of being "born again", 2004; Challenges of Renaissance: suggestive pattern of concerns in the light of the birth metaphor, 2003).

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