Navigating a middle way

Reimagining Principles Enabling an Existential Ecostery (Part #6)

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Use of the Mobius strip offers a way of framing a degree of illusion associated with binary extremes. The Sanskrit expression Neti Neti -- in suggesting "neither this, nor that" -- is indicative of a missing perspective, perhaps an "excluded middle", but one which cannot "exist" in the same manner as the two extremes, although effectively engendered by them. Hence, perhaps, the Buddhist emphasis on the Middle Way. As in walking, involving neither left nor right alone, the dynamic is not fruitfully understood as "neutral". It is "something else".

The intermediary condition is partially suggested by the illusory "central perspective" offered by the following schematic based on the Mobius strip

Three worlds of physics on the road to global sensemaking ? (with suggestive use of a Möbius strip to interrelate and frame the twisting cognitive challenge they represent) [reproduced from Credibility of Psychosocial Analogues of Feynman Diagrams, 2013]

The strange experience of this intermediary condition can be explored in terms of liminality (Living as an Imaginal Bridge between Worlds: global implications of "betwixt and between" and liminality, 2011). As implicit in static-dynamic, but distinct from them, it could be qualitatively associated with "style" -- as in recognition of a degree of elegance, or in the "goodness" of a move in game-playing.

The significance may also be explored through geometry, especially spherical geometry and the challenge of curvature, in contrast with respresentation on a flat plane (Triangulation of Incommensurable Concepts for Global Configuration, 2011)