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What is the opposite of "Idea " ?

Concept / idea - what could be the most closest opposite of it ?

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Mar 14 2013: here is a conversation ....in modern context with modern minds trying to analyze it...of a Sage Avencenna's point ...by way of question to his students....it is what the Sufi refer to as "Turning the UNIVERSE INSIDE OUT"

http://ec.libsyn.com/p/7/d/e/7de4e7a24ee48259/Peter_Adamson_on_Avicennas_Flying_Man.mp3?d13a76d516d9dec20c3d276ce028ed5089ab1ce3dae902ea1d01ce8437d4c1550fe3&c_id=5176985
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  Mar 14 2013: I was thinking about you;)
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    Mar 14 2013: Do you believe in synchronicity ?
    I do ! :)
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  Mar 14 2013: It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.:)
  Hi, Ed , thanks for the link !
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  Mar 15 2013: @Ed- some understand Avicennas_Flying_Man as a Bird ( particularly - Soul as Swan) However, after hearing this interesting dialogue what comes to mind seems that is the likely state of a child in a mother's womb - hung with head down, disabled senses - blank cognitively yet Live !! entity
  @Natasha - Interestingly this happens - more than often with me -what you called synchronicity;)
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  Mar 16 2013: Hi , ED !
  Plato described a mystic experience as a flight of ALONE to the ALONE.
  Mathematically, it's ONE without the second.
  I guess, it's what the Sufi refer to as "Turning the UNIVERSE INSIDE OUT"
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    Mar 16 2013: Hi nn!!
    
    Well they have another express which echoes Plato's description very directly
    
    "Alone with the Alone"
    
    This is another good example of how much "cross pollination" went on between the so -call "Eastern Mystics and the greek ( and carried on with Roman) Philosophers
    
    Two good refs
    
    http://books.google.ca/books/about/Alone_with_the_Alone.html?id=1Sx-YE8ngKEC
    
    http://books.google.ca/books?id=6FrXAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks
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      Mar 16 2013: Rupert Shaldrake 's ' morphic resonance " is another way to say "cross pollination" ...or Carl Yung's human collective consciousness/unconsciousness.
      Ideas are spreading and no one is in control, absolutely no one ! :)

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