Joint Knowing

Crisfel and I were aware of the Art Deco staircase & started to have an experience of what I termed Joint Knowing. Several of our friends had had this experience & it is rather special. We seemed to be effectively sharing a mind space that somehow could be accessed by either one of us.

I believe it is a spiritual space. It is marked by a non-ego state; of a non-oppositional mind space. You sit quietly waiting on the other person to say what they want, ‘in order’ to see if it is in fact what you were going to say. So there is a sharing but a need for confirmation by the other which they could not have known. This validates the state as real. You can suggest something eg ‘could this be like Plato’s ideal images coming through that staircase.’ Crisfel might say, I was wondering that also. She might say its archetypal and surely I would like to live there in that era. I said yes but the era may not have been as we project onto it. She said yes its like it suggests a perfect something and so on. All of this as if we knew exactly we both could have said these things. This was confirmed carefully by fine tuning.
I have to say there is a certain knowing that comes with this state. Its as if you can feel it. Of course in terms of our rational mind we can say, ‘oh how could we know the other is in the same/shared mental space.’ However, there is a sense of mutual knowing that is part of this. The only checking process is hearing the words coming unprompted from the other that have a sense of fresh surprise; in that this was either what you were thinking or seems to lead ahead of exactly where you wouldve gone had you articulated this.

I now build on the language as I believe that the more you name the space the more clarity it has and also its replication. (By this I mean the state of knowing not that particular conversation which is now history. It has to be a living new energy. See also- SSS & Bearing Points)

There is a sense of knowing mutually that each could feel and ‘know’ of an emerging concept/idea.  In other words that ‘we’ are trying to express something which seems to be coming of its self yet through us and because of us. I will now express 3 terms that I think are components of Joint knowing.

1. Expectant Emergence

Hence from the foregoing, there comes a sense of something coming to us all and we know it is coming even though it is not yet articulated and in the immediate moment it is still unknown. However there is a sense of its emergence

2. Non-oppositional

I think we have all agreed that when we are in that state of mind there is no sense of ego, quite the opposite. In fact is is a cooperative thing where you feel you are trying to help the other express the not yet said: Yet as if they speak for you and others.

3. Higher meaning
Whenever I am in this state I feel this is a wonderful suggestion that we are part of a spiritual and higher world that completely transcends this world as we usually know it. It is very uplifting and fills you with hopefulness.